Eve T. Bannet

Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading

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Produktbeschreibung

The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to ensure that ordinary people knew how to read and use printed matter. Reading is and was a collection of practices, performed in diverse but always very specific ways. These practices were spread down the social hierarchy through printed guides. Eve Tavor Bannet explores guides to six manners or methods of reading, each with its own social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical functions, and each promoting a variety of fragmentary and discontinuous reading practices. The increasingly widespread production of periodicals, pamphlets, prefaces, conduct books, conversation-pieces and fictions, together with schoolbooks designed for adults and children, disseminated all that people of all ages and ranks might need or wish to know about reading, and prepared them for new jobs and roles both in Britain and America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781108419109
• ISBN-10: 1108419100
• Artikelnr.: 48383152

Autorenporträt

Eve Tavor Bannet is the George Lynn Cross Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her publications include: The Domestic Revolution (2000); Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence 1688-1820 (Cambridge, 2005); Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810 (Cambridge, 2011); and with Susan Manning, Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660-1830 (Cambridge, 2012). Professor Bannet also edited British and American Letter Manuals 1680-1810, 4 volume set (2008), and Emma Corbett (2011), and is currently Editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the schoolroom in the marketplace; 1. The ABCs of reading; 2. Arts of reading; 3. Polite reading; 4. Ordinary discontinuous reading; 5. Reading secret writing.

Rezensionen

'... a valuable book in its wide-ranging knowledge, its identification of new ways to think about eighteenth-century reading practices, and its new configurations of material from disparate disciplines and arenas.' Min Wild, The Times Literary Supplement