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'... a valuable book in its wide-ranging knowledge, its identification of new ways to think about eighteenth-century reading practices, and its new configurations of material from disparate disciplines and arenas.' Min Wild, The Times Literary Supplement

'... a valuable book in its wide-ranging knowledge, its identification of new ways to think about eighteenth-century reading practices, and its new configurations of material from disparate disciplines and arenas.' Min Wild, The Times Literary Supplement 'Bannet (English, Univ. of Oklahoma) explores the ways in which 18th-century printers and print material offered instructions and models for ways of reading to ordinary people, thus creating the conditions for a widespread print and reading culture. Recommended.' Choice `... a valuable book in its wide-ranging knowledge, its identification of new ways to think about eighteenth-century reading practices, and its new configurations of material from disparate disciplines and arenas.' Min Wild, The Times Literary Supplement 'Bannet explores the ways in which 18th-century printers and print material offered instructions and models for ways of reading to ordinary people, thus creating the conditions for a widespread print and reading culture. Recommended.' Choice

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Eve Tavor Bannet is the George Lynn Cross Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her publications include: The Domestic Revolution (2000); Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence 1688–1820 (Cambridge, 2005); Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810 (Cambridge, 2011); and with Susan Manning, Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660–1830 (Cambridge, 2012). Professor Bannet also edited British and American Letter Manuals 1680–1810, 4 volume set (2008), and Emma Corbett (2011), and is currently Editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.

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