How Long to Read A Weaver-Poet and the Plague

How Long Does it Take to Read A Weaver-Poet and the Plague?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 48 minutes to read A Weaver-Poet and the Plague by Scott Oldenburg

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about London’s “middling sort” during the plague of 1603. In debt, in prison, and at odds with his livery company, Muggins was forced to move his family from the central London neighborhood called the Poultry to the far poorer and more densely populated parish of St. Olave’s in Southwark. It was here, confined to his home as that parish was devastated by the plague, that Muggins wrote his minor epic, London’s Mourning Garment, in 1603. The poem laments the loss of life and the suffering brought on by the plague but also reflects on the social and economic woes of the city, from the pains of motherhood and childrearing to anxieties about poverty, insurmountable debt, and a system that had failed London’s most vulnerable. Part literary criticism, part microhistory, this book reconstructs Muggins’s household, his reading, his professional and social networks, and his proximity to a culture of radical religion in Southwark. Featuring an appendix with a complete version of London’s Mourning Garment, this volume presents a street-level view of seventeenth-century London that gives agency and voice to a class that is often portrayed as passive and voiceless.

How long is A Weaver-Poet and the Plague?

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague by Scott Oldenburg is 284 pages long, and a total of 72,136 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Weaver-Poet and the Plague Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read A Weaver-Poet and the Plague aloud.

What Reading Level is A Weaver-Poet and the Plague?

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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