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02799aam a22003978i 4500 001 DB032E28370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170818s2017 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017032742 020 $a 1108419100 020 $a 9781108419109 035 $a (OCoLC)989038629 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a Z1003.5 G7 B36 2017 100 1 $a Bannet, Eve Tavor, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Eighteenth-century manners of reading : $b print culture and popular instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic world / $c Eve Tavor Bannet. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 298 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to ensure that ordinary people knew how to read and use printed matter. Reading is and was a collection of practices, performed in diverse, but always very specific ways. These practices were spread down the social hierarchy through printed guides. Eve Tavor Bannet explores guides to six manners or methods of reading, each with its own social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical functions, and each promoting a variety of fragmentary and discontinuous reading practices. The increasingly widespread production of periodicals, pamphlets, prefaces, conduct books, conversation-pieces and fictions, together with schoolbooks designed for adults and children, disseminated all that people of all ages and ranks might need or wish to know about reading, and prepared them for new jobs and roles both in Britain and America"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the schoolroom in the marketplace; 1. The ABCs of reading; 2. Arts of reading; 3. Polite reading; 4. Ordinary discontinuous reading; 5. Reading secret writing. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Reading $z Great Britain $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Reading $z United States $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Self-culture $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Self-culture $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403020955.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB032E28370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search