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Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association
for Romantic Studies)​ The Printed Reader explores the
transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how
this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a
proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who
attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. Through
intersecting readings of quixotic narratives, including work by
Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, George Colman, Richard
Graves, and Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Dale argues that
literature was envisaged as imprinting—most crucially, in
gendered terms—the reader’s mind, character, and body. The
Printed Reader brings together key debates concerning quixotic
narratives, print culture, sensibility, empiricism, book history,
and the material text, connecting developments in print technology
to gendered conceptualizations of quixotism. Tracing the meanings
of quixotic readers’ bodies, The Printed Reader claims the social
and political text that is the quixotic reader is structured by the
experiential, affective, and sexual resonances of imprinting and
impressions. Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Shortlisted for the 2021 British Association for Romantic Studies
(BARS) book prize. The Printed Reader explores the transformative
power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was
expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a
proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who
attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. Through
intersecting readings of quixotic narratives, including work by
Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, George Colman, Richard Graves,
and Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Dale argues that literature was
envisaged as imprinting-most crucially, in gendered terms-the
reader's mind, character, and body. The Printed Reader brings
together key debates concerning quixotic narratives, print culture,
sensibility, empiricism, book history, and the material text,
connecting developments in print technology to gendered
conceptualizations of quixotism. Tracing the meanings of quixotic
readers' bodies, The Printed Reader claims the social and political
text that is the quixotic reader is structured by the experiential,
affective, and sexual resonances of imprinting and impressions.
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne
derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at
Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8-11, 2013. It was
attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the
conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited
participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for
this volume, and the thirteen selected exhibit, it is hoped, the
defining features both of the conference and of Sterne studies at
the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is worth remarking
that the selected authors represent seven countries; that Sterne
may well be the most internationally accepted of all
eighteenth-century English authors is certainly a claim worthy of a
sentimental traveler. This collection recognizes three faces of
Sterne, beginning with several biographical essays examining,
respectively, his celebrity status, family life, politics, and
philosophy. The second face is that of Tristram, studied from
vantage points provided by ethics, linguistics, gender studies, and
comparative literature. The final group of essays examines the face
of Yorick as the protagonist of A Sentimental Journey, beginning
with an ethnographic study of relationships, moving through
questions of identity, and concluding with the possible future of
literary studies-a return to aesthetics.
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