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Consuming Texts

Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870

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  • © 2007

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  1. Stephen Colclough
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Reading Has a History

    • Stephen Colclough
    Pages 1-28

  3. Reworking the Word: Readers and their Manuscript Books, 1695–1730

    • Stephen Colclough
    Pages 29-63

  4. Diversities of Reading Practice, 1695–1770

    • Stephen Colclough
    Pages 64-87

  5. The Circulating Library, Book Club and Subscription Library: Readers and Reading Communities, 1770–1800

    • Stephen Colclough
    Pages 88-117

  6. Communal Practice and Individual Response: Reading in the Late Romantic Period

    • Stephen Colclough
    Pages 118-145

  7. Towards a Mass Audience, or, John Clare and the Problem of the Unknown Public

    • Stephen Colclough
    Pages 146-175

  8. Conclusion: Texts Consumed

    • Stephen Colclough
    Pages 176-179

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 180-239
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This volume explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. From wealthy readers of 'amatory fiction', through to men and women reading surreptitiously at the Victorian railway bookstall, it argues that a variety of new reading communities emerged during this period.

About the author

STEPHEN COLCLOUGH is Lecturer in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Literature at the University of Wales, Bangor. From 2001 - 2005 he was AHRC Fellow in Book History at the Centre for Writing and Publishing, University of Reading. He has published widely on the history of reading and text dissemination.

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