Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… books (academies, circulating libraries, clubs, societies, etc.) running parallel to the intensively growing market (print, book-sellers), testifies to the rising social role and collective power of this seemingly private practice. … part of a wider network of beliefs and world-views, sensitivity and empathy. 1 1 . The transition from manuscript to print media over the course of the long eighteenth century contributed to the spread of the existing textual conventions … 10 10 . Catherine E. Kelley, 'Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment', in Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, ed. H. B. Hackell and C.E. Kelley (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania …
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