Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
Title | Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Tavor Bannet |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2017-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108321496 |
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.
Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
Title | Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Tavor Bannet |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2017-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108317774 |
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.
The Eighteenth-century Woman
Title | The Eighteenth-century Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Olivier Bernier |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 0870992945 |
Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century: Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature
Title | Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century: Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Hale |
Publisher | Palala Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2018-02-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781378590263 |
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The Social Life of Books
Title | The Social Life of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Abigail Williams |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2017-06-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300228104 |
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Politeness in the History of English
Title | Politeness in the History of English PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Jucker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2020-04-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108499627 |
From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.
Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century
Title | Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Hale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Eighteenth century |
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