Record Number: 5813

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impressions by an unemployed pensiveness" and accustomed his thoughts to such a habitude of roving, that he [had] scarce ever been their quiet master since.'

Century:

1600-1699

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Boyle

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Jan 1627

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Natural philosopher

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo

Title:

Amadis de Gaule

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5813

Source:

Print

Author:

Adrian Jones

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Essay entitled 'The physiology of reading in Restoration England' in The Practice and representation of reading in England

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1996

Vol:

n/a

Page:

138

Additional Comments:

When Boyle was at school, in the early to mid 1640s

Citation:

Adrian Jones, Essay entitled 'The physiology of reading in Restoration England' in The Practice and representation of reading in England, (Cambridge, 1996), p. 138, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5813, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None