This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.
This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.
List of illustrations List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: the practice and representation of reading in England James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor 2. 'Let him read the Satires of Horace': reading, literacy and grammar in the twelfth century Suzanne Reynolds 3. Into his secret chamber: reading and privacy in late medieval England Andrew Taylor 4. The place of reading in the English Renaissance: John Dee revisited William H. Sherman 5. Reading and the technology of textual affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear Lisa Jardine 6. The editor as reader: constructing Renaissance texts John Kerrigan 7. Popular verses and their readership in the early seventeenth century Adam Fox 8. The physiology of reading in Restoration England Adrian Johns 9. 'In the even my wife read to me': women, reading and household life in the eighteenth century Naomi Tadmor 10. From promotion to proscription: arrangements for reading in eighteenth-century libraries James Raven 11. Provincial servants' reading in the late eighteenth century Jan Fergus 12. Reconstructing the reader: prescriptions, texts and strategies in Anna Larpent's reading John Brewer 13. Women, men and the reading of Vanity Fair Kate Flint 14. A pulse of 124: Charles Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public Helen Small Bibliography Index.
List of illustrations List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: the practice and representation of reading in England James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor 2. 'Let him read the Satires of Horace': reading, literacy and grammar in the twelfth century Suzanne Reynolds 3. Into his secret chamber: reading and privacy in late medieval England Andrew Taylor 4. The place of reading in the English Renaissance: John Dee revisited William H. Sherman 5. Reading and the technology of textual affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear Lisa Jardine 6. The editor as reader: constructing Renaissance texts John Kerrigan 7. Popular verses and their readership in the early seventeenth century Adam Fox 8. The physiology of reading in Restoration England Adrian Johns 9. 'In the even my wife read to me': women, reading and household life in the eighteenth century Naomi Tadmor 10. From promotion to proscription: arrangements for reading in eighteenth-century libraries James Raven 11. Provincial servants' reading in the late eighteenth century Jan Fergus 12. Reconstructing the reader: prescriptions, texts and strategies in Anna Larpent's reading John Brewer 13. Women, men and the reading of Vanity Fair Kate Flint 14. A pulse of 124: Charles Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public Helen Small Bibliography Index.
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