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

TitleEighteenth-Century Manners of Reading: Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsBannet, Eve Tavor
Number of Pages298 pp.
PublisherCambridge University Press
CityNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781108419109
Annotation

Examines how reading was taught and guides to reading for children and adults in Britain and the United States.

Contents:
Introduction: the schoolroom in the marketplace
The ABCs of reading
Arts of reading
Polite reading
Ordinary discontinuous reading
Reading secret writing

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