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Blair Worden

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns
Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe

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Blair Worden is research professor in history at Royal Holloway College in London. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England is coming out in the autumn.

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