This collection of essays draws together new research from leading scholars to offer a new methodological framework for the history of reading. A growing field, history of reading brings together ...

The practice of reading is not what it once was. In this age of information, adults in the United States read fewer books with each passing year, and for many, reading has become synonymous with the ...

Writing the history of the novel, even covering a limited period, is a challenge. No one could possibly read every novel that ...

California's new state reading test, administered in 1993 and ... ("Good people do believe in alchemy at various points in our history," she told me recently, by way of explaining its adoption ...

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After graduating from Penn in 1977 with a history degree, and working on an archaeology dig in Yugoslavia, he landed a job at Bassetts Ice Cream at the Reading Terminal, in hopes of overhearing ...

Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and historical phenomenology, this book provides a detailed case study of printed romances and works by Montalvo, Heliodorus, Amyot, Ariosto, Tasso, ...

To encourage the study of American history among its students, Harvard University has begun a new educational venture with the issuance of a pamphlet containing a study program and reading list.