How Long to Read "Betwixt Jest and Earnest"

How Long Does it Take to Read "Betwixt Jest and Earnest"?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 25 minutes to read "Betwixt Jest and Earnest" by Raymond A. Anselment

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

Description

Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift are among the best prose satirists in a remarkably rich literary era. Focusing on these key figures, ‘Betwixt Jest and Earnest’ examines the theory and practice of religious prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recognizing the difficulties inherent in attempting to transform unimaginative animadversion into effective satire, it analyses the ways in which Marprelate’s tracts, Milton’s anti-prelatical satires, Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transpros’d, and Swift’s A Tale of a Tub variously resolve the decorum of religious satire. Although the study is not specifically an intellectual history or a rigid definition of religious attitudes towards jest, it does bring together basic symptoms of altering sensibilities in the period. Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift represent diverse religious dispositions, but they share a similar satiric vision. Each recognizes the central importance of manner, and all develop dramatic satire heavily dependent on character, an emphasis which often displaces the immediate issues contested, but never obscures the larger concerns the satirists pursue. Their preoccupations with the nature of tradition, their emphasis on the self, and their sensitivity to language reflect similar involvements in questions of certainty and absolutism. The virtues and abuses they find in such central questions are not unique to them or their time, but their emphases are, for they wrote in an age in which sensitive men could confront revolution and reaction with an assurance not easily attainable once that era had passed.

How long is "Betwixt Jest and Earnest"?

"Betwixt Jest and Earnest" by Raymond A. Anselment is 203 pages long, and a total of 51,359 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read "Betwixt Jest and Earnest" Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 40 minutes to read "Betwixt Jest and Earnest" aloud.

What Reading Level is "Betwixt Jest and Earnest"?

"Betwixt Jest and Earnest" 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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