Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… the long eighteenth century contributed to the spread of the existing textual conventions and their transformation, with letters (a reading-writing form of communication) playing a vital role in familiarizing the growing audience with such … media like novels, biographies or newspapers and periodicals. See Rachel Scarborough King in Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018). Various reading … Cook, Daniel Dodd, ‘A Father Reading to His Family by Candlelight’, British Museum, 1875,0109.193, 1783. Moreover, many letters of the period reveal that a book reading performed by a member of the family would often take place while members …
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