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... readers , with enough disposable income to spend on books . The invention and development of circulating libraries ( described in more detail in the next chapter but dating from at least 1720 ) reduced the cost of reading to that of a ...
... readers , with enough disposable income to spend on books . The invention and development of circulating libraries ( described in more detail in the next chapter but dating from at least 1720 ) reduced the cost of reading to that of a ...
Page 89
... readers , based on ' reading clubs ' ; they charged quite high fees and disdained ' light reading ' such as novels . By contrast the commercial circulating libraries began as a sideline offered by retailers such as grocers ...
... readers , based on ' reading clubs ' ; they charged quite high fees and disdained ' light reading ' such as novels . By contrast the commercial circulating libraries began as a sideline offered by retailers such as grocers ...
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... reading as a solitary and privileged act : A man sitting alone in his personal library reading is at once the product and begetter of a particular social and moral order . It is a bourgeois order founded on certain hierarchies of ...
... reading as a solitary and privileged act : A man sitting alone in his personal library reading is at once the product and begetter of a particular social and moral order . It is a bourgeois order founded on certain hierarchies of ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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