Eighteenth-century manners of reading
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The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to ensure that ordinary people knew how to read and use printed matter. Reading is and was a collection of practices, performed in diverse, but always very specific ways. These practices were spread down the social hierarchy through printed guides. Eve Tavor Bannet explores guides to six manners or methods of reading, each with its own social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical functions, and each promoting a variety of fragmentary and discontinuous reading practices. The increasingly widespread production of periodicals, pamphlets, prefaces, conduct books, conversation-pieces and fictions, together with schoolbooks designed for adults and children, disseminated all that people of all ages and ranks might need or wish to know about reading, and prepared them for new jobs and roles both in Britain and America.
Title |
Eighteenth-century manners of reading : print culture and popular instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic world / Eve Tavor Bannet. [electronic resource] |
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Publisher |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
Creation Date |
2017 |
Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Nov 2017). Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the schoolroom in the marketplace 1. The ABCs of reading 2. Arts of reading 3. Polite reading 4. Ordinary discontinuous reading 5. Reading secret writing. |
Extent |
1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997012410545905171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Books and reading History 18th century.
- Literature and society History 18th century.
- Book industries and trade History 18th century.
- Book trade
- Literature Social aspects
- Literature and sociology
- Society and literature
- Sociology and literature
- Appraisal of books
- Books Appraisal
- Choice of books
- Evaluation of literature
- Literature Evaluation
- Reading, Choice of
- Reading and books
- Reading habits
- Reading public
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