The Practice and Representation of Reading in England

Raven, James, Editor. Small, Helen, Editor. Tadmor, Naomi, Editor. The Practice and Representation of Reading in England. Cambridge, [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, [1996]. xvii, 313 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $20. * Contents: Introduction: the Practice and Representation of Reading in England, James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor; 'Let Him Read the Satires of Horace': Reading, Literacy and Grammar in the Twelfth Century, Suzanne Reynolds; Into His Secret Chamber: Reading and Privacy in Late Medieval England, Andrew Taylor; The Place of Reading in the English Renaissance: John Dee Revisited, William H. Sherman; Redaing and the Technology of Textual Affect: Erasmus's Familiar Letters and Shakespeare's King Lear, Lisa Jardine; The Editor as Reader: Constructing Renaissance Texts, John Kerrigan; Popular verses and Their Readership in the Early Seventeenth Century, Adam Fox; The Physiology of Reading in Restoration England, Adrian Johns; 'In the Even My Wife Read to Me': Women, Reading and Household Life in the Eighteenth Century, Naomi Tadmor; From Promotion to Proscription: Arrangements for Reading and Eighteenth-Century Libraries, James Raven; Provincial Servants' Reading in Prescript124: Charles Dickens and a Pathology of the Mid-Victorian Reading Public, Helen Small. …