Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial
This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perc
The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to ensure that ordinary people knew how to r
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the