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Introduction
1. Audiences for novels: gendered reading
2. Consuming practices: canonicity, novels, and plays
3. Schoolboy readers: John Newbery's Goody Two-Shoes and licensed war
4. Schoolboy practices: novels, children's books, chapbooks, and magazines
5. Audiences for magazines and serialized publications Conclusion Bibliography
Appendices
1.1. Clays' circulating library stocks
2.1. Novels in English bought and borrowed, 1744-1807, by date of first publication
4.1. All children's book, chapbook titles bought by Rugby boys
5.1. Magazines taken by Clay customers, Daventry, Rugby, and Lutterworth only, 1746-1780, with customer totals
5.2. Adult consumers of novels and magazines, 1746-1780, Daventry, Rugby, Lutterworth only
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Patrick Wethington
reviewed Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England on November 04, 2015
Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England
It was a funny thing with this book. I read the first 100 pages or so and enjoyed most of it quite a bit, but then I suddenly started getting tired of some of the minutia about the intra-editor correspondence and then I even started getting tired of the correspondence between the editors and the authors. And it was getting kind of repetitive. So I abandoned it kind of abruptly. But before I could complete abandon it, I had to go through the very copious and detailed index, and by the time I was out of the C's (cf. e.g. this *very* small sampling just from the A's and B's:
A&P (Updike)
Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner)
Agnew, Spiro T.
Albee, Edward
Allen, Woody
Anderson, Sherwood
Angell, Roger
Arendt, Hannah
Armies of the night, The (Mailer)
Arno, Peter
Ashe, Arthur
Baker, Nicholson
Barth, John
Barthelme, Donald
Beattie, Anne
Beatty, Warren
Beckett, Samuel
Bell for Adano, A (Hersey)
Bellow, Saul
Benchley, Robert
Berlin, Irving
Bogart, Humphrey
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bradley, Bill
Brando, Marlon
Bright lights, big city (McInerney)
Buckley, William F.
Buffett, Warren
Butler, Nicholas Murray
I realized that by the time I finished that exercise, I would probably have read every page of the book 5 times. So I went back to a more linear reading from where I had left off when I abandoned it, and I ended up mostly enjoying the book, though I was still quite bored by all the editorial stuff, and I'm sure a more serious New Yorker aficionado would appreciate that stuff more than I did.
The best parts for me were about the authors (especially Cheever, Salinger, and Updike in my case) and the least interesting parts were about the editors and thye business end of the magazine.
I have to give it t least 3 stars for effort, and the author certainly expended plenty of that--he went through 3,000 boxes of correspondence and inter-office memoranda and interviewed 50 people.
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