03382cmm a2200325 4500 214803772 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 100729s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780511776335 electronic bk. 0511776330 electronic bk. 9780511773754 ebook 0511773757 ebook (OCoLC)650882706 N$T eng N$T YDXCP OSU OCLCA OCLCQ IDEBK E7B OCLCQ TxAuBib Allan, David, 1964- Commonplace books and reading in Georgian England [electronic resource] / David Allan. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (xii, 306 p.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-296) and index. Prolegomenon. The problem with reading: history and theory in the culture of Georgian England -- Origins. 'Many sketches and scraps of sentiments': what is a commonplace book? -- A very short history of commonplacing -- Commonplacing modernity: enlightenment and the necessity of note-taking -- Form and matter. 'A sort of register or orderly collection of things: Locke and the organisation of wisdom -- The importance of being epigrammatic -- Manufacturing an encyclopaedia -- Readers and reading. Critical autonomy and readership -- Dexterity and textuality: the experience of reading -- Ancient and modern. Sounding the muses' lyre: rhetoric and neo-classicism -- Invention and imitation: practising the art of composition -- Texts and tastes. Taming the Bard: dramatic readings -- Commonplacing and the modern canon -- Anatomising the self. The selfish narrator -- Self-made news -- Reading excursions: on being transported -- Envoi. The rise of the novel and the fall of commonplacing: conjoined narratives? "This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced the roles that literature played in English society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers' tastes and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite, responsible and critically aware public"-- Provided by publisher. Great Britain Colonial Office Social life and customs 18th century. Great Britain MI6 Social life and customs 19th century. Books and reading England History 18th century. Books and reading England History 19th century. Commonplace-books History. LITERARY CRITICISM Books & Reading. Electronic books. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=324001 EBSCOhost