Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Stetz ◽  
John O. Jordan ◽  
Robert L. Patten
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Reading Practices

Reading Macro and Micro Trends in Nineteenth-Century Theater History

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-102
Author(s):  
Blair Best ◽  
Madeleine G. Cella ◽  
Rati Choudhary ◽  
Kayla C. Coleman ◽  
Robert Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Network Visualization ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Theater History ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
New York University ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
American Theater

This essay co-authored by Robert Davis and his students in a theater class at New York University describes the interdependence of close and distant reading practices in their creation and analysis of a representative corpus of nineteenth-century drama. With irregular scholarly and theatrical attention given to nineteenth-century American theatre, the archive of plays and productions is frustratingly fragmented with few playbooks and only limited accounts of their staging. This chapter demonstrates how students used corpus linguistic and spatial analysis tools like Voyant, Antconc, and Tagxedo to recover a neglected century of American theater. Students found that the use of digital tools to perform text analysis, mapping, and network visualization sparked new scholarly ideas about nineteenth-century theatre.

scholarly journals Beth Caldwell's Reading Experience

Spectrum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby Elizabeth Haber
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Sarah Grand ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Physical Objects ◽  
Personal Engagement

Near the end of the nineteenth century, Sarah Grand coined the phrase "New Woman," which was influential throughout the first wave of the feminist movement. This paper examines how Sarah Grand's representation of Beth Caldwell's reading habits in her novel The Beth Book acts as a metaphor for the subversive femininity of the New Woman. My project explores the ways in which Grand's feminist ideals are reflected in The Beth Book through the scenes when Beth is reading. I suggest that Beth's atypical engagement with books as textual and physical objects can be equated to social dissent. However, Grand also portrays Beth reading within educational and marital institutions. These experiences lead Beth's engagement with the text to become similar to common nineteenth-century reading practices. I conclude with the argument that Grand represents any personal engagement with a book, even if it is not especially radical, as capable of re-evaluating systemically-enforced interpretations.

Reading Together: “Communitarian Reading” and Women Readers in Colonial Bengal

Hypatia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swati Moitra
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Reading Aloud ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Woman Reader

In this article, I seek to consider this practice of “communitarian” reading—reading aloud, reading together—as a defining aspect of the cultures of reading among Bengali women in the nineteenth century. I wish to contest the privileging of “silent” reading as a “modern” mode of reading and the subsequent celebration of the protean incorporeality of the “silent” reader, in the works of prominent scholars of readership, arguing that the privileging of “silent” reading as the predominant “modern” mode of reading does not offer a sufficient framework for the study of reading practices of the “historical” “woman reader” in the age of colonial “modernity” in a terrain such as that of Bengal. The article thus engages with alternate frameworks of considering the practice of reading aloud, drawing upon diverse feminist scholarship on practices of reading to argue in favor of considering the practice of “communitarian” reading as a form of female sociality for Bengali women in the nineteenth century, at a time when public spaces remained largely inaccessible to women.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Melissa Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Thing Theory ◽  
Arabian Nights ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Diverse Application ◽  
History Of ◽  
Structural Shifts

Opening with an examination of the rhetoric of nineteenth-century modernity, the introduction argues that, faced with profound structural shifts, commentators of the period frequently deployed the language of magic and the Arabian Nights in order to communicate and make sense of their new, urban, industrial environments. Outlining the history of the arrival of the Arabian Nights in Europe and its remarkable propensity to proliferate, it establishes the temporal and structural openness of this story collection, which invites diverse application in multiple locations. In the case of nineteenth-century Britain, it argues, the tales were used to reflect and refract new materials and ideas, offering different ways for British readers to interpret and to frame their experiences. While engaging with questions of imperialism and Orientalism, the introduction draws recent scholarship on thing theory into the history of reading practices, in order to register the potentially transformative powers of reading in the context of the emotional, psychological and material relationships forged with the Arabian Nights in nineteenth-century Britain. Alongside the more familiar narrative of its prevalence as material with which to manage the Orient, it points to moments of exchange, immersion and receptivity to the realm of the other, and to narratives shared and adapted across cultures.

Teaching with Digital Humanities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Travis ◽  
Jessica DeSpain
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Literature Classroom ◽  
Nineteenth Century American Literature ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Tools And Methods

This book offers theoretical perspectives and case studies for teaching American literature of the long nineteenth century using the tools and methods of the digital humanities (DH). The essays highlight best methods for integrating the building of digital tools and projects in the nineteenth-century American literature classroom and strategies for incorporating into the curriculum already established digital materials. By emphasizing a discipline-specific approach, the collection invites conversations among scholars of other disciplines about how digital pedagogies can deepen their objectives for student learning. The collection is organized into five keywords, or tags: Make, Read, Recover, Archive, and Act. The essays in Make illustrate the pedagogical value of project-based, collaborative learning. The essays in Read describe assignments in which students engage in multiple reading practices, from close to collaborative and computational. In Recover, contributors show how DH approaches aid in the scholarly consideration of marginalized texts. The essays in Archive encourage students to select and organize artifacts with an ethics of care, often in communities beyond the classroom. The final section, Act, advocates for an activist approach, demonstrating how DH can bring new insights to debates central to the study of the long nineteenth century, particularly concerning difference. As they engage digital humanities practices and pedagogies, the essays in the collection model inventive strategies and rethink what is possible in the American literature classroom.

Coda

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-188
Author(s):  
Arden Hegele
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Free Indirect Style ◽  
The Relationship

The coda extends the relationship between nineteenth-century techniques of medico-literary exegesis to reading practices in the present day. The four mobile protocols discussed in the book—dissective reading, the postmortem, free indirect style, and semiological diagnostics—offer a new portrait of the cultural interchange between Romantic literary and medical fields. They also set the stage for contemporary reading practices, especially symptomatic reading. The coda argues that the much-maligned practice of symptomatic reading might be rehabilitated through a reconsideration of the history of its origins in Romantic protocols of diagnosis, which anticipate present-day debates in literary analysis about the ethics of critique. In dialogue with the medical and health humanities, the coda offers an optimistic reconsideration of symptomatic reading as a rich, transhistorical instance of how literary scholarship might draw on and inform the medical sciences.

scholarly journals O lugar do livro e da leitura no Maranhão Oitocentista: o Gabinete Português de Leitura

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
César Augusto Castro ◽  
Samuel Luis Velázquez Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Book History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Library Catalog ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Library Catalogs

Os catálogos de biblioteca têm se constituído como importante recurso para o resgate da história do livro e dos processos de produção, circulação e das práticas leitoras em diferentes lugares e por públicos distintos. Apresenta-se o catálogo da biblioteca do Gabinete Português de Leitura do Maranhão, destacando a trajetória do livro no Maranhão no período oitocentista, como forma de compreender o processo de circulação e finalidades desse bem cultural; a história do Gabinete Português de Leitura, pontuando suas normas, finalidades e critérios normativos para os associados; e a análise do catálogo da Biblioteca desse instituto, destacando a classificação e ordenação dos livros, bem como as principais classes consultadas. Constata-se que este catálogo foi elaborado como forma de desenvolver estratégias de controle e consulta ao acervo, além de verificar a natureza das obras e indicar as leituras permissivas na biblioteca.AbstractThe library catalogs have been established as an important resource for the rescue of book history and the processes of production, circulation and reading practices in different places and for different audiences. We present a catalog of the library of Portuguese Reading Cabinet in Maranhão, highlighting the history of the book in Maranhão in nineteenth-century period, as a way to understand the process and purpose of this cultural movement as well; the history of Portuguese Reading Cabinet, punctuating his standards, objectives and regulatory criteria for members; and the analysis of the catalog of the library of this institute, highlighting the classification and ordering of books, and the main classes consulted. It appears that this catalog has been prepared in order to develop strategies to control and consult the collection and to verify the nature of the works and indicate the permissive readings in the library.KeywordsPortuguese Reading Cabinet. Library. Catalog.

scholarly journals ‘Novel Reading and Insanity’: Nineteenth-Century Quaker Fiction Reading Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Hood
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Novel Reading
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