The practice and representation of reading in England
Drawing on fields as diverse as medieval pedagogy, textual bibliography, the history of science, and social and literary history, this collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.
History
313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521023238, 9780521480932, 0521023238, 0521480930
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Introduction : the practice and representation of reading in England / James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor
'Let him read the Satires of Horace' : reading, literacy and grammar in the twelfth century / Suzanne Reynolds
Into his secret chamber : reading and privacy in late medieval England / Andrew Taylor
The place of reading in the English Renaissance : John Dee revisited / William H. Sherman
Reading and the technology of textual affect : Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear / Lisa Jardine
The editor as reader : constructing Renaissance texts / John Kerrigan
Popular verses and their readership in the early seventeenth century / Adam Fox
The physiology of reading in Restoration England / Adrian Johns
'In the even my wife read to me' : women, reading and household life in the eighteenth century / Naomi Tadmor
From promotion to proscription : arrangements for reading and eighteenth-century libraries / James Raven
Provincial servants' reading in the late eighteenth century / Jan Fergus
Reconstructing the reader : prescriptions, texts and strategies in Anna Larpent's reading / John Brewer
Women, men and the reading of Vanity Fair / Kate Flint
A pulse of 124 : Charles Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public / Helen Small
Originally published: 1996