This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences
as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording
favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read,
revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with
the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often
remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about
texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance
humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a
series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of
reading influenced the roles that literature played in English
society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits
and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers' tastes
and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of
reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate
men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite,
responsible and critically aware public.
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