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

The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to ensure that ordinary people knew how to read and use printed matter. Reading is and was a collection of practices, performed in diverse but always very specific ways. These practices were spread down the social hierarchy through printed guides. Eve Tavor Bannet explores guides to six manners or methods of reading, each with its own social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical functions, and each promoting a variety of fragmentary and discontinuous reading practices. The increasingly widespread production of periodicals, pamphlets, prefaces, conduct books, conversation-pieces and fictions, together with schoolbooks designed for adults and children, disseminated all that people of all ages and ranks might need or wish to know about reading, and prepared them for new jobs and roles both in Britain and America.

Author: Eve Tavor Bannet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/11/2019
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781108409490

About the Author
Bannet, Eve Tavor: - Eve Tavor Bannet is the George Lynn Cross Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her publications include: The Domestic Revolution (2000); Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence 1688-1820 (Cambridge, 2005); Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810 (Cambridge, 2011); and with Susan Manning, Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660-1830 (Cambridge, 2012). Professor Bannet also edited British and American Letter Manuals 1680-1810, 4 volume set (2008), and Emma Corbett (2011), and is currently Editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.

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