by Price, Leah
Armstrong, Nancy, 91
association copies, 12, 13, 15, 32, 113, 168–74, 229
Augustinianism, 107, 113
“Auntie Toothache,” 252
Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey, 88, 202, 250–51, 253, 254–55, 256; Pride and Prejudice, 81, 216
Austin, Alfred, 177
authorial signature, 34
authors/authorship, 29, 107, 130, 245, 259; and book historians, 107; and Byron, 234; and Coleridge, 232; and Darnton, 152; and Dickens, 95, 96, 97, 100; and Eliot, 170, 171, 173; and Flaubert, 60; and free print, 150; and Irving, 230; and it-narratives, 110; and James, 50; and literary criticism, 20, 34, 95, 107; and Mayhew, 220, 223, 227, 248; power to move through space and time, 18; professional, 95; and readers, 12, 15, 67, 81, 218; and tracts, 151; virtual encounters with, 150; and wastepaper, 233; and Yonge, 200
autobiographies, 88, 89, 140
autodidacts, 17, 83, 140, 203
Awdry, Frances, The Miz Maze, 284n18
Babbage, Charles, 143
Bacon, Francis, 27, 28
Bagehot, Walter, 22, 105
banknotes, 108, 109, 172, 231, 278n13
Baptist Magazine, 134
Barrie, J. M., “A Poem,” 181
bathos, 25, 86, 92–93, 132, 176
Battles, Matthew, 90
Beetham, Margaret, “In Search of the Historical Reader,” 247
Beeton, Isabella, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 182
Bell, Bill, “Bound for Australia, 61–62
Bell, Florence, 202
Benjamin, Walter, “Unpacking My Library,” 121, 263n1
Bennett, Arnold, 196
Bernstein, Charles, A Poetics, 272n1
Bernstein, Robin, “Dances with Things,” 263n3
Best, Mrs., The History of a Family Bible, 171–72, 206
Bewick, Thomas, Birds, 72, 74, 78, 82
Bezos, Jeff, 5
Bible, 36, 70, 133, 219; and bibles, 4; binding of, 2, 6, 181–82; circulation of, 111; covers of, 181–82; family, 79, 168, 171–72, 173, 174; and format and social class, 180–82; in G. Eliot, 79, 168, 170, 171, 174; as gift, 115, 123, 151, 155, 162, 189, 209; as locked-up, 122; and Mayhew, 227, 249; nontextual, practical uses for, 40, 160; shared among different audiences, 175; and social classes, 115; and social differences, 175; and uses other than reading, 39–40; as wastepaper, 157, 159
bibles, 12, 14, 30, 109, 113; binding of, 6, 28; births and deaths recorded in, 40; and Catholicism, 39; and death, 227, 228; and disease, 195; distribution of, 156–62; donation of, 155; durability of, 38; eating of, 11, 40; faith in reading of, 41; and format and social class, 180–81; and invalids, 40; and it-narratives, 121, 231; and masters and servants, 15; and Mayhew, 221; and native graves, 40; and niche marketing, 165; and oaths, 40; oaths of revenge sworn upon, 36, 168, 171; and Obama, 15; price of, 6, 38, 158; pristine condition of, 19; read under wrong circumstances, 189–90; resale for gin, 206; sale of, 115, 155; as shield against bullets, 40; socially appropriate owner for, 116; as subsidized, 6, 123; and taxes, 220; value of, 157
bible societies, 151
biblioclasm, 149, 233
bibliographers, 10, 12, 32, 34; and preservation vs. use, 225; as servant/handmaid, 237, 240, 252
bibliographical materialism, 110
bibliographical tradition, 131
bibliographic codes vs. linguistic codes, 35
bibliography, 107, 109; analytical, 130, 131, 134
bibliomancers, 18
bibliomania, 3
bibliophilia, 10, 30, 40, 169, 219
bildungsroman, 14, 16, 17, 37, 107, 193, 203, 260, 284n19; adults as blocking figures in, 204; book acquisition in, 84, 86–88; and child and text, 91; and development of literary sensibility, 130; and didactic texts, 68; and family, 73; and hatred of books, 17; and interiority, 78; and it-narrative, 124–30, 131; and models of causation, 12; post-Romantic psychologizing of, 131; and reading and individualism, 176; reading in, 6, 72, 77–78
binder’s waste, 12, 220
Binkley, Robert, 217
biography, 71, 273n7
Birrell, Augustine, “Book-Buying,” 230
Black, Alistair, “The Library as Clinic,” 196
Blackstone, William, Commentaries, 256
Blackwoods Magazine, 88
Blades, William, The Enemies of Books, 182, 183, 194
Blair, Ann, 34
Bluebeard, 185
blue books, 144, 145, 249
body/bodies, 2, 104, 116, 124; and book and text, 78, 129; book as conduit for, 197; book as displacing vs. conjuring up, 31; and books, 30; of Christ, 123; and clothing and binding, 133; and Dickens, 78, 99, 101, 102, 106; in Eliot, 79; and experience, 75; and it-narrative, 118, 125; and masters and servants, 184, 185–86; materiality of vulnerable, 75; and Mayhew, 238; and mind, 26, 27, 75, 78, 79, 106, 129; as paper or parchment, 102–3; and Pitman, 99; position of printed object in relation to, 45; puns about, 26, 27, 78; and soul, 144; as writing surface, 101, 102
Bogue, David, 164
bookbinding, 1–2, 3, 170, 184; from animal skins, 28–30; of Bible, 2, 6, 28, 181–82; calfskin, 1; and class, 178, 180–81; and clothing, 2, 5, 6, 56, 132–33, 144; crushed Morocco, 28; in Dickens, 1–2; pigskin, 27, 28; and prize books, 162; puns on, 27; slaves’s skin as, 123; socially appropriate, 116; and use by masters and servants, 178
book collecting, 182–83
book historians, 12, 33, 34, 35–36, 37, 107, 131
book history, 20; and literary-critical theory and practice, 12; and personification, 134; and Victorian realist fiction, 28
bookmark, 197
book-object: and bildungsroman, 77; and children, 88, 91; and Dickens, 21; and disease, 196; and gentry, 11; hatred for lovers of, 78; and it-narratives, 110, 132; and materiality, 4; usefulness of, 233, 263n4
book reviews, 25, 232, 233, 240–41, 243, 251, 252, 253
book(s), 6, 103; abjection of, 220; and absence of beloved, 197–98; abstraction of, 12, 31; acquisition vs. choice of, 150; adaptability of, 224; age vs. price of, 246–47; aging of, 130; assimilation to, 129; authenticity and appearance of, 3; as banished, 226; as barrier, 14; as block, 113; as bridge, 14, 17, 113, 198; as buffer, 17, 58, 81; as burden, 139; burning of, 3, 9, 126; buying, renting, or borrowing of, 117; coffee-table, 8, 35, 93; commissioning, manufacture, and transmission of, 31; cover vs. content of, 3; as demonized, 16; and differences of rank and age, 17; display of, 6; exceptionalism of, 35; expensive, 33; and fashion, 3; fetishism of, 11, 40; and flame, 22; and freedom, 5; fumigation of, 195, 228, 259; as gift, 6, 49, 109, 115, 123, 139, 146, 149, 151, 155, 156, 162, 163, 189, 204; as heroes, 16; and human associations, 113; as human beings, 131–32; humanized, 126; and human relationships, 124; idea of, 9; inherited, 6; in judgment over persons, 122, 123, 133, 134; life cycle of, 107, 109, 129, 134, 153, 221, 227, 231, 238, 239, 250, 255; love for look of, 2; as manufactured good vs. found object, 90; manufacture of, 122; marketed for collective reading at home, 62; as material thing, 3, 4, 14, 20, 72, 76, 78, 91; as moving across social scale, 247; as negative space, 78; as object or commodity, 76; order of possession of, 131; out of date, 6; overproduction of, 140–45; ownership vs. intention to read, 150; personhood endowed to, 123; physicality of, 4, 77, 144–45; as picaresque wanderer, 17; placed, 18; power of, 7; powers to unite and to divide, 13; preservation vs. destruction of, 225–26; price or appearance of, 5; pricing of, 90; as prisoner, 12, 57, 111–12, 126, 127, 226; prize, 162–63; representation of, 12, 16, 36, 49–50, 67; respect for, 8, 186, 188; scorn for outsides of, 3; sofa-table, 18, 70, 84, 113, 169, 183; as term, 4; and text, 2, 4–5, 10–11, 20, 25–26, 40, 78, 129; vulnerability of, 123–24; as wedge, 198. See also page(s); paper
Book-stall boy of Batherton, The, 205
book throwing, 72, 75, 76, 77, 80, 88, 93, 113
book trade, 90, 113, 169, 170, 247
Bosanquet, Helen, “Cheap Literature,” 201
Boston Society for the Religious and Moral Improvement of Seamen, Ad
ventures of a Bible, 122
Boswell, James, 233
Bourdieu, Pierre, 265n8
Bowl of Punch, A, 205
Braby, Maud Churton, Modern Marriage and How to Bear It, 60–61
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451, 126, 149
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: The Doctor’s Wife, 60; Lady Audley’s Secret, 177–78
Brand, Stewart, 135
branding, history of, 223
Brantlinger, Patrick, The Reading Lesson, 78, 287n6
Bratton, J. S., The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction, 162, 277n5
Bread Basket, 245
“Brevities,” 232
Brewer, John, 130
Bridges, Thomas, Adventures of a Bank-note, 278n13
British and Foreign Bible Society, 28, 151, 155, 157, 158–59, 160, 165, 180–81
broadcasting, 145, 216, 217, 244, 245
Brodhead, Augustus, 157
Brontë, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 45, 55–56
Brontë, Charlotte, 7, 36, 63; Shirley, 156, 197, 209
—Jane Eyre, 193, 200, 284n15; absorbed reading in, 80–81; book as bridge vs. barrier in, 81–82; books as projectiles in, 3, 73; child’s consciousness in, 84; and instrumentalization of reading, 89; and it-narratives, 122–23; materiality of book in, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77; and original of Mr. Brocklehurst, 38, 91; qualification of reading in, 93–94, 104; and reception theory, 131; and Sewell, 68; and source of books, 86
Brougham, Lord, 141
Broughton, Rhoda: A Beginner, 196; Second Thoughts, 215
Brown, Bill, “Introduction: Textual Materialism,” 266n11
Brown, Clarence, Wife vs. Secretary, 62
Brown, Irving, “How a Bibliomaniac Binds His Books,” 27
Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information, 257
Brown, Matthew, 266n11
Buchhandlung service, 19–20
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 85; England and the English, 57; “On Certain Principles,” 29
“Bunch of Keys, The,” 203
Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress, 170, 203
Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange, 149
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, A Little Princess, 76
Butor, Michel, 50
Butterworth, C. H., 140
buying, 117, 210; and Eliot, 229; reading without, 84, 85; and stealing, 6
buying and selling, 12; and Cervantes, 212; and Dickens, 95; and meaning, 107, 113
Byron, Lord, 233–34, 235
Calinescu, Matei, 89, 90
Calvino, Italo, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, 263n1
Cambridge History of English Literature, 237
Canetti, Elias, Auto-da-Fé, 55, 177
Carey, Annie: Autobiography of a Lump of Coal, 109; A Bit of Old Iron; and A Piece of Old Flint, 109; A Drop of Water, 109; A Grain of Salt, 109; The History of a Book, 109, 122
Carey, William, 39, 40
Carlyle, Thomas, 238; The French Revolution, 236, 257; On Heroes, 33; Sartor Resartus, 235, 248
Cartesianism, 32
Cassian, 103
Catholics, 16, 39, 203–4
censorship, 126, 143, 149, 203
Certeau, Michel de, 70, 75–76
Cervantes, Miguel de, 57; Don Quixote, 67, 82, 84, 212, 250, 251
Chadwick, Edwin, 145, 249
chain letter, 145
Changing Lives through Literature, 40–41
characters, 3, 24, 30, 47, 49; and bildungsroman, 73; child’s identification with, 167; fantasized romance with, 259; as flat, 108; reader’s similarity to, 175; represented as writing, 91–92; and represented book, 76–77, 110
“Charles Dickens and David Copperfield,” 105
Charlesworth, Maria Louisa: A Book for the Cottage, 153; The Female Visitor to the Poor, 155; Ministering Children, 122; The Old Looking-Glass, 185, 188
Chartier, Roger, 151; On the Edge of the Cliff, 265n6; The Order of Books, 131, 283n1
Chatterley prosecution, 199
Cheap Repository Tracts, 151, 181, 209
Cheap Repository Tract Society, 160
Cheney, Tom, 54
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 3
Chestnutt, Charles, “Baxter’s Procrustes,” 4
childhood: absorption in, 88; and bildungsroman, 127; and bildungsroman and reading, 87; and bookishness, 72; and it-narratives and bildungsroman, 129; prelapsarian model of, 91; stories of, 252–54
children, 13, 57, 86; absorption of, 81, 88; and access to books, 86, 87, 88–89, 91; and acquisitiveness in fallen state, 90–91; and adults, 13, 14, 74, 83, 86, 87, 88–89, 91, 100, 106, 108–9, 113, 129–30, 204; and bildungsroman, 203, 204; and bodies as writing surfaces, 101, 102; and books as friends, 83; books like abused, 123; and family, 203; and family prayers, 214; fiction for vs. about, 90; growth of mind of, 130; as hiding from adults, 13, 74, 113; identification with literary characters, 167; and internalized content vs. display of unread books, 14; as internalizing texts, 91; interrupting reading of, 76; and it-narratives, 108–9, 125; memorization of hymns by, 91; and mothers, 51–52, 67, 75; as narrators, 125; out-of-body raptness of, 78; and parents, 15, 165; and prize books, 162–63; as readers, 76; and reading, 2; reading as distracting from, 52; and religious tracts, 165; as resembling books, 106; runaway, 127–28; selection of books for, 163, 165, 167, 188; sense of self of, 72; and servants, 163, 188; as sources of labor, 189; stories for, 252; and teachers, 14; teaching of poor, 188; and texts vs. books, 91, 100; withdrawal into mind by, 75; and women, 91; as written upon, 129–30
children’s books, 167–68
children’s magazines, editors of, 90
China, 220; Cultural Revolution in, 9
Chinese fiction, 219
Christian conversion narrative, 17
Christianity, 30, 39, 120, 122, 123
Christian Observer, 229
Christian Vernacular Education Society, 157
Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, 241
circulation, 5–6, 7, 20, 36, 135, 149, 171, 211, 247; ambivalence about, 12–13; and Anderson, 260; of banknotes vs. religious materials, 109; and Collins, 211; and death, 228, 234; and disease, 196–97; and Eliot, 108, 169, 171, 241; and Evangelical it-narrative, 14, 110; and free libraries, 244; and free print, 150; and Gosse, 253; and Greenwood, 228–29; humans as stations for, 131; and Mayhew, 222, 226, 245; and reading, 5–6; and religious publications, 110–16, 117, 119, 123, 152, 155, 178; and secular press, 132; and secular works, 159; and social class, 176; of things, 107. See also libraries, circulating
“Circulation of the Scriptures,” 158
Claude the Colporteur, 203–4, 205
Clennam, Arthur, 51
clothing/dress, 3, 35; and anthropomorphism, 132; and Austen, 255; bookbinding as, 132–33, 144; bookbindings as matching, 2, 6, 56; castoff, 178; and disposability, 246; hand-me-down, 183; and it-narrative, 125; metaphors of, 124; and newspapers, 184; and pages, 248; patterns for, 54–55, 56, 219; and rags, 10, 219; survival of, 225
Cobden, Richard, 217
coffee-table books, 8, 35, 93
Cohen, Jessica, and Pascaline Dupas, 159
coins, 108, 115, 125, 229, 231
Colclough, Stephen, 247
Colclough, Stephen, and David Vincent, 56
Cold War era, 51, 75
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 63; Biographia Literaria, 232
Collet, Collet Dobson, 38
Collier, Jane, Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, 214–15
Collier, Jeremy, 141
Collins, C. A., 53
Collins, Paul, 125
Collins, Wilkie: Basil, 2, 198; The Moonstone, 207–13, 215, 216, 285n24; Poor Miss Finch, 213, 215
colonialism, 39–40
comedies of manners, 14, 17, 71, 72
comedy/comic writing, 17, 25, 30, 54, 214
commerce, 14, 34, 84, 86, 110, 117, 149
communications circuit, 130, 151, 152
conduct literature, 60–61, 62, 68–69, 70, 82, 113
, 142, 146
Conrad of Hirsau, 264n7
consciousness, 106, 113, 120; and Dickens, 84, 126; and Eliot, 79, 80; and Hardy, 46–47; and it-narratives and bildungsroman, 124, 126, 129
consumption, 35
Contemporary Review, 201
conversion narrative, 193
Cooke, Maud C., 146
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Prairie, 86
copyright, 11, 34, 181, 223, 246, 258
Corbett, Mary Jean, Representing Femininity, 267n24
Corelli, Marie, 194–95, 196
Cornhill, 178
“Cottage Library of Christian Knowledge, The,” 111
Cottage Magazine; or, Plain Christian’s Library, 115
counterfactuals, 83, 92, 94, 96
country-house collectors, 11
Coutts, Henry T., 2, 116, 197
Cox, Caroline, 285n21
Craik, D. M., 122
Craik, George, The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties, 140
Crary, Jonathan, Suspensions of Perception, 272n14
Crayon, Geoffrey, 230
Crébillon, Claude, Le sopha, 109
Cressy, David, 40
Culler, Jonathan, “Anderson and the Novel,” 291n4
cultural history, 37, 260
Curtius, Ernst Robert, 11
cybertheorists, 135
Dairyman’s Daughter, The, 285n21
Dames, Nicholas, The Physiology of the Novel, 270n1
Dante, 59
D’Arcy, Ella, “Irremediable,” 55
Dardier, J. P., 217
Darnton, Robert, 130, 151; The Business of Enlightenment, 22, 134; The Kiss of Lamourette, 152
Darwin, Charles, 55
Daston, Lorraine, 22, 34
Davidson, Cathy, “The Life and Times of Charlotte Temple,” 134
Davies, Tony, 62
Davis, Natalie, 260; “Beyond the Market: Books as Gifts in Sixteenth-Century France,” 139
Davis, Nuel Pharr, 213
daydreams, 8, 77, 78–80, 92
Deakin, Mary H., 229
death/mortality, 13, 129, 168, 169, 225, 227–30, 234, 286n1; and burial metaphors, 143–44; and circulation, 234; and corpses, 22, 29, 144; and Eliot, 229; and Greenwood, 228–29; and the living, 13, 15, 175; and materiality of books, 169; and paper, 251
debasement, 26, 105, 127, 129, 230
Defoe, Daniel, 170; Robinson Crusoe, 72, 82, 109, 206, 207, 208
