"The Tennis Ball of Fortune": Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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DOI: 10.1215/00982601-10951290
Abstract: Abstract:This paper will focus on the Chronicles of John Cannon, a ploughboy turned exciseman and writing master living in the Somerset levels who described himself as a "Tennis Ball of Fortune." Cannon's story of self-education… read more here.
Keywords: manuscript book; chronicles john; culture; cannon ... See more keywords