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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Reading is the cornerstone of education, essential for mastering subjects like history, science, and religion. Yet, with the ...

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, ...

This morning I have read that a federal district judge, Algenon Marbley in Ohio, has decided he should put blatant political bias in the courts. He had decided to retire, which would then have ...

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.