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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung Exploring six methods of reading in their social! economic! commercial! intellectual and pedagogical context! Eve Tavor Bannet demonstrates how guides to reading showed people of all ranks how to read and use periodicals and books! preparing them for new jobs and new roles in Britain! America and the Atlantic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the schoolroom in the marketplace; 1. The ABCs of reading; 2. Arts of reading; 3. Polite reading; 4. Ordinary discontinuous reading; 5. Reading secret writing.

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• Authors: Eve Tavor Bannet, Eve Tavor (University of Oklahoma) Bannet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108409490
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40949-0
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History of Education, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800