Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading: Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World

ISBN-13: 9781108409490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 306 str.

Eve Tavor Bannet

Opis

This book explores how and why reading was taught in the eighteenth century, exploring different teaching methods in social and economic context.

Recenzje

'In five illuminating and subtle chapters, Eve Tavor Bannet recovers six differently defined (but fascinatingly interdependent) 'manners' of reading, greatly refining our understanding of prevailing reading perceptions, prescriptions, and presumptions. She convincingly presents these manners of reading as multiple strategies effectively to connect and reassociate the separateness (or, as she puts it, discontinuities and disconnections) of myriad texts, words, and letters.' James Raven, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Spis treści

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.