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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Anatomy of Reading 1
Books 3
Bibliomania 4
Bodies 8
A History of Reading 13
From reading aloud to reading silently 14
From monastic to scholastic reading 15
Reading in solitude 17
From intensive to extensive reading 19
The Material Conditions of Reading 23
Expressive function of print 25
Instability of the textual object 27
Histories of textual transmission 29
From manuscript to typographic culture 32
From print to hypermedia culture 33
The Physiology of Consumption 36
Side-effects of reading 37
Reading-fever 39
Reading addiction 42
Modernity and the assault on the senses 45
Eye-strain and eye-hunger 49
Film-fever 50
Dazzling the audience 52
Dizzy in hyperspace 53
(Dis)embodied in cyberspace 57
Passive consumers 58
The Reader in Fiction 62
Dangers of reading 63
The tearful reader 65
The frightened reader 69
The passionate reader 72
Pathology of reading 74
Reading games 76
The danger of a future without books 77
Multisensory media 79
The Role o'f Affect in Literary Criticism 83
Reading with/without pathos 84
Docere-delectare-movere 86
From reader to author to text 90
Disinterested and contemplative reading 92
Close reading 96
Reading for sense rather than sensation 98
The Reader in Theory 103
(Un)readability 105
A priori conditions of reading 107
Controlling readers' responses 108
Reading expectations 109
Conventions of reading 111
Interpretive communities 113
Failure of reading 116
Misreading 119
The reader as writer 120
The politics of difference 122
Sexual Politics of Reading 125
The resisting reader 127
Black women readers 128
Empirical audiences 131
Active consumers 134
'Low-/middle-/highbrow' reading 137
Embodied reading 142
Reading as/like a woman 148
The feminization of the reader 151
Conclusion: Materialist Readings 154
Notes 158
References and Bibliography 168
Index 186
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