History of Reading: The long Eighteenth Century

Bannet, Eve Tavor

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“…This is in part because we are necessarily reliant on written accounts to supply information about reading, and in part because, as we are coming to understand more and more, reading involves an exceptionally complex set of cognitive, physical, social and material processes. In her Literature Compass essay, “History of Reading: The long Eighteenth Century,” Eve Bannet (2013) provides a superb overview of the dynamic scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades. She notes that reading must be understood as a complex and diverse range of activities; that theories of intensive or extensive reading, solitary or social reading, compliant or transgressive reading, should be rejected as reductive as reading practices varied.…”

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Women and the book in Britain's long eighteenth century

Levy

2020

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This survey synthesizes and examines existing scholarship on women's practices and positions within eighteenth‐century British book culture. Since feminist scholarship began in the 1980s, the recovery of women's literary history has been largely focused on recovering their written contributions in print. However, more recently, eighteenth centuryists have noticed the interconnections between oral, written and print cultures; engaged in bibliographical studies on the significance of the expansion of print and the book trades; and considered how rising literacy rates and diverse reading practices shaped culture. Women, as writers and readers, and as intermediaries in the production and circulation of culture, played a critical role in shaping these developments. This essay reviews the considerable scholarship that addresses women's various engagements with book culture, research that collectively has generated a more capacious understanding of the history of books in the long eighteenth century and the women who produced, shared and read them.

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Section: History Of Readingmentioning

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Women and the book in Britain's long eighteenth century

Levy

2020

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Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century

Ellis

2023

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Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century studies the reading habits of a group of historians and science administrators known as the Hardwicke Circle. The research is based on an analysis of the reading recorded in the 'Weekly Letter', an unpublished private correspondence written from 1741 to 1766 between Thomas Birch (1705–1766), Secretary of the Royal Society, and Philip Yorke (1720–1790), later second earl of Hardwicke. Birch and Yorke were omnivorous, voracious, and active readers. The analysis uses the Weekly Letter to quantify the texts with which they engaged, and explores the role of reading in their intellectual life. The research argues that this evidence shows that, in the early 1750s, the Hardwicke Circle pivoted from a focus on early-modern British history to a new concern with the reform and renovation of British intellectual institutions, especially the Royal Society.

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History of Reading: The long Eighteenth Century

Abstract: Describes recent developments in this interdisciplinary field, showing how they alter our previous assumptions about eighteenth‐century reading; indicates lacunae and opportunities for future work.

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Women and the book in Britain's long eighteenth century

Women and the book in Britain's long eighteenth century

Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century

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