… not be viewed as an activity connected solely to literature or associated simply with texts intended to stir up the imagination (e.g. fiction or poetry). 2 In fact, people read various texts – from newspapers (political, cultural, … were to effect a conduct based on the reproduction of the desired social attitudes. 9 . See Kathleen Lubey, Excitable imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760 (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012). Nowhere else was …