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The Practice and Representation of Reading in England
The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, How did people read in the past? Where and why did they read? And what did they think readers and reading were for? Drawing on fields as diverse as medieval pedagogy, textual bibliography, history of science, social history and history of the book, this c, The Practice and Representation of Reading in England has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • The Practice and Representation of Reading in England
  • Written by author James Raven
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, April 2006
  • How did people read in the past? Where and why did they read? And what did they think readers and reading were for? Drawing on fields as diverse as medieval pedagogy, textual bibliography, history of science, social history and history of the book, this c
  • This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.
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1Introduction: the practice and representation of reading in England1
2'Let him read the Satires of Horace': reading, literacy and grammar in the twelfth century22
3Into his secret chamber: reading and privacy in late medieval England41
4The place of reading in the English Renaissance: John Dee revisited62
5Reading and the technology of textual affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear77
6The editor as reader: constructing Renaissance texts102
7Popular verses and their readership in the early seventeenth century125
8The physiology of reading in Restoration England138
9'In the even my wife read to me': women, reading and household life in the eighteenth century162
10From promotion to proscription: arrangements for reading and eighteenth-century libraries175
11Provincial servants' reading in the late eighteenth century202
12Reconstructing the reader: prescriptions, texts and strategies in Anna Larpent's reading226
13Women, men and the reading of Vanity Fair246
14A pulse of 124: Charles Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public263
Bibliography291
Index298


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