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The Reader in the Book examines the history, archaeology, and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces in early modern books to shed light on reading practices, how books were read, and what early modern readerse wanted texts to tell them.

This timely volume attempts to formulate interesting new ways of talking about the entire concept of literacy in the ancient world--literacy not in the sense of whether 10% or 30% of people in the ancient world could read or write, but in the sense of text-oriented events embedded in a particular socio-cultural context. The volume is intended as a forum in which selected leading scholars rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now viewed in other disciplines.

A une époque qui prône un retour aux valeurs de discipline et de solidarité, l'étude des enfants de troupe entend apporter un éclairage historique, littéraire et psychologique sur cette institution. Alors que les romans destinés à la jeunesse entre 1870 et 1918 édifient les enfants héros Bara ou Viala, la littérature testimoniale de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, relayée par le cinéma, bouscule l'image mythique du vaillant petit \"Tambour d'Arcole\" engagé à quinze ans dans les troupes bonapartistes.