Engl 209: Reading Histories: Making Readers
Readings
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Course Readings
Benedict, Barbara M. "Sensibility by the Numbers: Austen's Work as Regency Popular Fiction." Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees. Ed. Deidre Lynch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 63-86.
Certeau, Michel De. "Reading as Poaching." The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven F. Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 165-176.
Colclough, Stephen M. "Procuring Books and Consuming Texts: The Reading Experience of a Sheffield Apprentice, 1798." Book History 3 (2000): 21-44.
Darnton, Robert. "First Steps Toward a History of Reading," The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. 154-187.
Flint, Kate. "Sensation Fiction." The Woman Reader, 1837-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 274-293.
Graff, Gerald. "Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English." Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 36-51.
Sicherman, Barbara. "Reading and Middle-Class Identity in Victorian America." Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interaction with Literature, 1800-1950. Eds. Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. 137-160.
Wittman, Reinhard. "Was there a Reading Revolution at the End of the Eighteenth Century?" A History of Reading in the West. Eds. Cavallo, Guglielmo and Roger Chartier. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. 284-312.
Other readings
Bourdieu, Pierre. "Introduction." Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. 1-7.
Kaufman, Paul. "Innerpeffray: Reading for all the people"; and "In Defence of Fair Readers." Libraries and Their Users: Collected Papers in Library History. London: The Library Association, 1969. 153-162; 223-228.
Klancher, John P. "Romantic Theory and English Reading Audiences." The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. 135-150.
Kloek, Joost, and José de Kruif. "Readers and Reading Behavior in the Past. The Question Is: What Is the Question?" The Psychology and Sociology of Literature: In Honor of Elrud Ibsch. Eds Dick Schram and Gerard Steen. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2001. 315-322.
Miall, David S., and Don Kuiken. "A Feeling for Fiction: Becoming What We Behold." Poetics 30 (2002): 221-241.
Ong, Walter J., S.J. "The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction." PMLA 90 (1975): 9-21.
Ross, Trevor. "The Emergence of 'Literature': Making and Reading the English Canon in the Eighteenth Century." ELH 63 (1996): 397-422.
Scott, Alison S. "'This Cultivated Mind': Reading and Identity in a Nineteenth-Century Reader." Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interaction with Literature, 1800-1950. Eds. Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. 29-52.
Ward, J. P. "'Came From Yon Fountain': Wordsworth's Influence on Victorian Educators." Victorian Studies, 29 (1986): 405-436.