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Commonplace books and reading in Georgian England

Allan, David, 1964-

Overview

\"This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced the roles that literature played in English society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers' tastes and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite, responsible and critically aware public\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Books and reading England History 18th century. / Books and reading England History 19th century. / Commonplace-books History. / Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century. / Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780521115346, 0521115345

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
Z1003.5.G7 A48 2010	1	BOOK	GENERAL