The History of Reading

Section 1: Defining the Field: What is the History of Reading? 1. From Fiction and the Reading Public - Q. D. Leavis 2. 'First Steps Towards a History of Reading' - Robert Darnton 3. Preface to The Order of Books - Roger Chartier 4. 'Was there a Reading Revolution at the End of the Eighteenth Century?' - Reinhard Wittmann 5. 'Reading in Late Antiquity' - John Moorehead Section 2: Theorising the Reader 6. 'Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory' - Hans Robert Jauss 7. 'The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach' - Wolfgang Iser 8. 'On the Politics of Literature' - Judith Fetterley 9. 'What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable?' - Stanley Fish 10. 'Discourse in Poetry and Discourse in the Novel' - Mikhail Bakhtin 11. 'Silent Reading: its impact on Late Medieval Script and Society' - Paul Saenger 12. 'Reading as Poaching' - Michel de Certeau Section 3: Researching and Using Literacy 13. 'Literacy, trade and religion in the commercial centres of Europe' - Margaret Spufford 14. 'Dimensions of illiteracy in England, 1740-1850' - Roger S. Schofield 15. 'Reading and Writing' - David Vincent 16. 'Studying the History of Literacy' - Carl F. Kaestle 17. 'Summary of present tendencies in mass culture'- Richard Hoggart Section 4: Reading the Masses 18. From Reading Revolutions: the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England - Kevin Sharpe 19. 'Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China' - Anne E. McLaren 20. 'At the Boundaries of the Reading Nation' - William St. Clair 21. 'Contesting Print Audiences' - Anindita Ghosh 22. 'The Literature of the Lubok' - Jeffrey Brooks Section 5: Reading Communities 23. 'Reading and Reciting' - Martyn Lyons with Lucy Taksa 24. 'Reading in the Middle Ages' - Armando Petrucci 25. 'The Welsh Miners' Libraries' - Jonathan Rose 26. '"A benefit and a blessing": The Sage Library' - Christine Pawley 27. '"An Association of Kindred Spirits": Black Readers and their Reading Rooms' - Elizabeth McHenry Section 6: Individual Readers 28. '"Studied for Action": How Gabriel Harvey read his Livy'- Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine 29. 'The Cultural Universe of a Dutch Child' - Arianne Baggerman 30. '"R R, A Remarkable Thing of Action": John Dawson as a Reader and Annotator' - Stephen Colclough 31. 'Self-Development' - James A. Secord Section 7: New Directions and Methods in the History of Reading 32. 'New Methods in the History of Reading: "Answers to Correspondents" - Teresa Gerrard 33. 'No longer left behind: Amazon.com, reader-response, and the changing fortunes of the Christian novel in America' - Paul C. Gutjahr 34. 'Mata's Hermeneutic: Internationally Made Ways of Reading Bunyan' -Isabel Hofmeyr 35. 'Listening to the Readers of "Canada Reads"' - Danielle Fuller 36. 'The Reading Experience Database 1450--1945 (RED)' - Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey, Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed