The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Paperback)

List of illustrations; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the practice and representation of reading in England James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor; 2. 'Let him read the Satires of Horace': reading, literacy and grammar in the twelfth century Suzanne Reynolds; 3. Into his secret chamber: reading and privacy in late medieval England Andrew Taylor; 4. The place of reading in the English Renaissance: John Dee revisited William H. Sherman; 5. Reading and the technology of textual affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear Lisa Jardine; 6. The editor as reader: constructing Renaissance texts John Kerrigan; 7. Popular verses and their readership in the early seventeenth century Adam Fox; 8. The physiology of reading in Restoration England Adrian Johns; 9. 'In the even my wife read to me': women, reading and household life in the eighteenth century Naomi Tadmor; 10. From promotion to proscription: arrangements for reading in eighteenth-century libraries James Raven; 11. Provincial servants' reading in the late eighteenth century Jan Fergus; 12. Reconstructing the reader: prescriptions, texts and strategies in Anna Larpent's reading John Brewer; 13. Women, men and the reading of Vanity Fair Kate Flint; 14. A pulse of 124: Charles Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public Helen Small; Bibliography; Index.