How Long to Read Vernacular Bodies

By Mary Elizabeth Fissell

How Long Does it Take to Read Vernacular Bodies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Vernacular Bodies by Mary Elizabeth Fissell

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

Description

Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to produce the first account of women's reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since little was certain about the mysteries of reproduction, the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories. The insides of women's reproductive bodies provided a kind of open interpretive space, a place where many different models of reproductive processes might be plausible. These models were profoundly shaped...

How long is Vernacular Bodies?

Vernacular Bodies by Mary Elizabeth Fissell is 283 pages long, and a total of 71,599 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 Vernacular Bodies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Vernacular Bodies aloud.

What Reading Level is Vernacular Bodies?

Vernacular Bodies 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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