The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 (RED)

Richard Meek, Jane Rickard, and Richard Wilson, eds., Shakespeare’s Books: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (Manchester University Press, 2008).

Katie Halsey, ‘Reading the Evidence of Reading’, Popular Narrative Media, 2 (2008), 123-137.

Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler’s Private Library: The books that shaped his life (Bodley Head, 2008).

David Allan, A Nation of Readers: The lending library in Georgian England (British Library, 2008).

David Pearson, Books as History: The influence of books beyond their texts (British Library, 2008).

David Ainsworth, Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England (Routledge, 2008).

Kevin J. Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Martyn Lyons, Reading culture and writing practices in nineteenth-century France (University of Toronto Press, 2008).

Margaret Willes, Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books (Yale University Press, 2008).

Ruth Clayton Windscheffel, Reading Gladstone (Palgrave, 2008).

Thomas Wright, Oscar's Books (Chatto & Windus, 2008).

Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly, eds., Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

William H. Sherman, Used Books: Marking readers in Renaissance England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

Thomas E. Burman, Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

Stefan Collini, Common Reading: Critics, historians, publics (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Paul Dobraszczyk, 'Useful reading? Designing information for London's Victorian cab passengers', Journal of Design History, 21 (2008).

Paradise: New Worlds of Books and Readers. Special issue of Script and Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 29, no.1-4 (2007).

Craig Kallendorf, The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2007).

Jessica Brantley, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

D.H. Green, Women Readers in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

James Simpson, Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007).

Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter, eds, Institutions of Reading: The social life of libraries in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).

Elspeth Jajdelska, Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator (University of Toronto Press, 2007).

Rachel Ablow, The Marriage of Minds: Reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot (Stanford University Press, 2007).

Wallace Kirsop, ed., The Commonwealth of Books: Essays and studies in honour of Ian Willison (Oak Knoll Press, 2007).

Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison, eds., Literary Cultures and the Material Book (British Library, 2007).

Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds., A Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell, 2007).

Matthew P. Brown, The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading and English Literature, 1430-1530 (Oxford University Press, 2007).

James Raven, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade, 1450-1850 (Yale University Press, 2007).

Stephen Colclough, Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870 (Palgrave, 2007).

Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed (eds), Publishing in the First World War: Essays in book history (Palgrave, 2007).

Katharine A. Craik, Reading Sensations in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Katie Halsey, ‘“Critics as a Race are Donkeys”: Margaret Oliphant, Critic or Common Reader?’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 2 (2007), 42-68.

Mark Towsey, ‘“An Infant Son to Truth Engage”: Virtue, Responsibility and Self-Improvement in the Reading of Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock, 1747-1815’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 2 (2007), 69-92.

Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text (Chicago University Press, 2006).

Leslie Howsam, Old Books and New Histories: An orientation to studies in book and print culture (Toronto, 2006).

Mary Hammond, Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Ashgate, 2006).

Ann R. Hawkins, Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Book History (Pickering and Chatto, 2006).

P.J. Waller, Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary life in Britain, 1870-1918 (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Rosemary Ashton, 142 Strand – a radical address in Victorian London (Chatto & Windus, 2006).

The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, 3 vols, ed. Elizabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber, Giles Mandelbrote, Keith Hanley, Alistair Black and Peter Hoare (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Stephen B. Dobranski, Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Heidi Brayman Hackel, Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender and Literacy (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Tom Keymer and Peter Sabor, 'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary controversy and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Edith Snook, Women, Reading and the Cultural Politics of Early-Modern England (Ashgate, 2005).

Kathryn Sutherland, Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading, ed. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (New Castle, Delaware and London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2005).

H.J. Jackson, Romantic Readers (Yale University Press, 2005).

William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

David Paul Nord, Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Candy Gunther Brown, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing and Reading in America 1789-1880 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

David McKitterick, Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Steven Roger Fischer, A History of Reading (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2003).

Francis Spufford, The Child that Books Built: A Memoir of Childhood and Reading (London: Faber & Faber, 2002).

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. IV (1557-1695), ed. John Barnard & D.F. McKenzie, assisted by Maureen Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001).

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (Yale University Press, 2001).

The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade, ed. Peter Isaac and Barry McKay (Oak Knoll / St Paul's Bibliographies, 2001) (Includes Maureen Bell, 'Reading in Seventeenth-Century Derbyshire: the Wheatcrofts and their Books').

Robert S. Miola, Shakespeare's Reading (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven, CT. London: Yale University Press, 2000).

D.R. Woolf, Reading History in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).

James Secord, Victorian Sensation: The extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture & Commerce, ed. Bill Bell, Jonquil Bevan and Philip Bennet (Oak Knoll, 2000). Includes Bill Bell 'Cultural Baggage: The Scottish Emigrant Reader in the Nineteenth Century'.

A History of Reading in the West, ed. Guglielmo Cavallo & Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, (Oxford: Polity Press, 1999).

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. III (1400-1557), ed. Lotte Hellinga & J.B. Trapp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Brian Richardson, Printing, Writers, and Readers in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

The Experience of Reading: Irish Historical Perspectives, ed. Bernadette Cunningham & Maire Kennedy (Social History Society of Ireland, 1999).

A Radical's Books: the Library Catalogue of Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1623-90, ed. Michael Hunter, Giles Mandelbrote et. al. (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1999).

Clarissa and her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, ed. Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland (New York: AMS Press, Inc, 1999).

Patrick Bratlinger, The Reading Lesson: The threat of mass literacy in nineteenth-century British fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: print and knowledge in the making (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1998).

Jacqueline Pearson, Women’s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

The Practice and Representation of Reading, ed. James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: essays in the history of the book (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).

John Sutherland, Victorian Fiction: Writers, publishers, readers (Basingstoke: McMillan, 1995).

Robert L. Patten and John O. Jordan, eds, Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-century publishing and reading practices (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993; repr. 1995).

Roger Chartier, The Order of Books, readers, authors, and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994).

Claudia N. Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994).

The Ethnography of reading, ed. Jonathan Boyarin (Berkeley: University of California Press, c.1993).

Tom Keymer, Richardson’s Clarissa and the Eighteenth Century Reader (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Property of a Gentleman: the formation, organisation and dispersal of the private library 1620-1920, ed. Robin Myers & Michael Harris (Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1991).

Annotation and its Texts, ed. Stephen A. Barney (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, c. 1991).

Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: reflections in cultural history (London: Faber & Faber, 1990).

David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture, 1750 -1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

The Culture of Print: power and the uses of print in early modern Europe, ed. Alain Boureau & Roger Chartier, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989).

William J. Gilmore, Reading becomes a necessity of life: material and cultural life in rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 1989).

Jon Klancher, The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).

Robert Darnton, ‘First Steps towards a History of Reading’, Australian Journal of French Studies 23 (1986), 5-30.

Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts, ed. Elizabeth A. Flynn & Patrocinio P. Schweickart (Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).

Robert Darnton, ‘What is the history of books?’, Daedalus, III.3 (1982), 62-83.

Philip Collins, Reading Aloud: A Victorian metier (Lincoln: Tennyson Research Centre, 1972).

William A. Belson, Studies in Readership (London: Business Publications, 1962).

Richard Altick, The English Common Reader: A social history of the mass reading public (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).

Selected Works on Theories of Reading

Karin Littau, Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies and Bibliomania (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006).

Sara Mills (ed.) Gendering the Reader (New York, London, Singapore, etc: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994).

Shoshana Felman, What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (Balimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).

Wolfgang Iser Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1963), trans. Caryl Emerson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984).

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven F. Rendal (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1984).

Mikhail Bakhtin The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1981).

Stanley Fish Is there a Text in this Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980).

Susan R. Suleiman & Inge Crosman, The reader in the text: essays on audience and interpretation (Princeton & Guildford: Princeton University Press, c. 1980).

Umberto Eco, The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (London: Hutchinson, 1979; repr. 1981).

Judith Fetterley, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1978).

Wolfgang Iser The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978).

Wolfgang Iser, The Implied Reader; Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974).

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1973) trans. Richard Miller (New York: Hill & Wang, 1975).

Stanley Fish, Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (1967) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).