by Price, Leah
De Quincey, Thomas, “The Street Companion,” 30
Derrida, Jacques, 23
detective novel, 247, 252
devotional books, 115, 209
Dewing, Maria Oakey, Beauty in the Household, 284n16
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 3
Dickens, Charles, 7, 36, 82, 122–23, 259; American Notes and Reprinted Pieces, 128; and authors/authorship, 95, 96, 97, 100; Bleak House, 10, 163, 167, 189, 207; and copyrights, 181; and dummy spines, 23; Great Expectations, 210; Hard Times, 10, 207; and Mayhew, 221; “Meditations in Monmouth-Street,” 248; Nicholas Nickleby, 101; The Old Curiosity Shop, 285n21; Oliver Twist, 25, 84–85, 90, 239; Our Mutual Friend, 1–2, 21, 23, 94; The Pickwick Papers, 89, 96; Prospectus for the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens, 133; and publishing industry, 90; and shorthand, 96–100; Sketches by Boz, 248; speech at Press Club, 97–98; and stenography, 97; A Tale of Two Cities, 248; and tract societies, 156; The Uncommercial Traveller, 102
—David Copperfield, 125, 231, 239, 252, 253, 254, 278n14; appearances in, 1–2; and book as weapon, 73, 75, 76, 77, 88; boot-tree in, 73, 74, 82; bottle warehouse in, 85, 92, 105, 106, 126, 130; child beaten in, 176; class in, 105–6; critical reception of, 95; and instrumentalization of reading, 89; and it-narratives, 122–23, 126–27, 128–29; kinship in, 14, 85–86; labels in, 23, 92, 101, 102, 103, 106, 126–27, 128, 129; Pitman reprints from, 98–99; qualification of reading in, 78, 82–86, 89; reading metaphors in, 92–93, 94–95, 96; and reception theory, 131; sandwich board in, 101, 103, 105, 106, 126, 129, 130; stenography in, 98–100, 103; transposed into shorthand, 96; writing in, 94, 100–104
Dickinson, Emily, 173
Dickinson, Susan, 173
didactic texts, 13, 38, 68
Diderot, Denis, 67–68, 203, 259; Les bijoux indiscrets, 109; “Eloge de Richardson,” 272n17
digital age, 5
digital media, 7
digitization, 256–57
Dinesen, Isak, Out of Africa, 237
dirt, 240; absorption of, 9; from fellow handlers, 15; and Lamb, 121; and library books, 194–95, 198, 226; from servants, 183, 184, 185, 186, 200; as sign of use, 122; and successive users, 169; and uncut pages, 240. See also servants: dusting by
discipline, 10
disease, 15, 175, 195–97, 198, 228–29, 259
D’Israeli, Isaac, Curiosities of Literature, 236, 238, 240, 252
distribution, 7, 130; infrastructures for, 14; networks for, 139, 145; of prize books, 163; and social relationships, 7; systems for, 11. See also mail; religious tract distribution
Donaldson, Ian, 236
Doveton, F. B., 27
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 89
Drummond, William, 225
Dublin University Magazine, 24, 94, 241
Duff, Alexander, 157
Duguid, Paul, 256–57; “Material Matters,” 135; The Quality of Information, 34; Social Life of Information, 134
dummy spines, 23, 27, 70, 84
Duncan, Ian: Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel, 291n3; Scott’s Shadow, 250
Dyer, S., 158–59, 160–61
economy, 15, 73, 108, 153, 221, 222, 247, 249–54, 252
Edgerton, David, 20
Edgeworth, Maria, 258–59; “Mademoiselle Panache,” 202; Patronage, 196; Simple Susan, 69
Edinburgh Review, 232
editors, 77, 91, 107, 110, 240
education, 22, 41, 101, 102, 117, 118, 204; and books, 17; of boys vs. girls, 57; in Dickens, 100–104; formal, 17; and servants, 189; and spread of schooling, 162. See also schools; teachers
Edwards, Amelia, Barbara’s History, 83
Edwards, Edward, 40, 244, 245
Eisenstein, Elizabeth: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, 134; “Some Conjectures,” 291n5
Eliot, George, 7, 62, 70, 234; Felix Holt, 282n28; “J. A. Froude’s The Nemesis of Faith,” 5, 267n20; “Knowing that Shortly I Must Put off this Tabernacle,” 229; Middlemarch, 60, 108, 109, 168, 171, 241; The Mill on the Floss, 3, 45, 46, 72, 78–80, 81, 122, 139–40, 168–74, 229; and review of Hawkstone, 241; Romola, 124, 168
Eliot, Simon: “Circulating Libraries in the Victorian Age and After,” 247; Some Patterns and Trends in British Publishing, 141, 150
Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, 237
Ellison, Keith, 15
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 123, 124, 125, 126, 194; “Books,” 112
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and John Lubbock, 132, 259
Encyclopedia Britannica, 142–43, 220
Enemies of Books, The, 194
Enlightenment, 11, 111, 139
epistolary novels, 250
e-readers, 5
Erwin, Miles, 160
etiquette, 17, 146. See also conduct literature
Evangelicalism, 2, 134, 135, 150, 206, 245, 251; and it-narrative, 14; and Mayhew, 243; and niche marketing, 164
Evangelical press, 17, 39, 90–91, 109, 111, 113, 159; and commercial transactions, 156; and distribution, 156; niche marketing pioneered by, 139
Evangelical Protestants, 16
Evangelical tracts, 7, 16, 17, 28
Evans, Marian. See Eliot, George
Evans, M.D.R., et al., 84
“Excerpt from Hereford Times,” 97
“Excessive Reading,” 140
Exeter Book, 132
Fabian, Ann, 123
family, 13; and bildungsroman, 73; and book as competing with friendships, 14; as economic unit joining masters with
family (cont.)
servants, 193; hatred of, 59; and hiding behind books, 15; and it-narrative, 120; and religious tracts, 193
Family Paper, 62
family prayers, 214
fashion-books, 249, 254
father: biological and fictive, 85–86; biological vs. surrogate, 85; dead, 85, 86; in Dickens, 85–86; identity of, 85
Favret, Mary, Romantic Correspondence, 286n30
Fellowes, Caroline Wilder, “A volume of Dante,” 123
feminism, 51, 56
Fenn, Ellenor, Fables, 90
Fergus, Jan S., “Provincial Servants’ Reading in the Late 18th Century,” 285n21
Ferris, Ina: The Achievement of Literary Authority, 259; “Bibliographic Romance,” 268n27; Romantic Libraries, 264n2
Festa, Lynn, 125
fetish, 40, 131, 157, 169
“Few Words About Reading, A,” 140
Fielding, Henry, 233, 237; Shamela, 198; Tom Jones, 77, 82, 85
Fielding, Penny, 285n25
Fifty-Sixth Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 121, 156, 158, 180–81
Finn, Margot, “Men’s Things,” 280n7, 280n12
First International Congress and Jubilee of Phonography, 97
Fish, Stanley, 151–52
Flaubert, Gustave, 50, 85; Madame Bovary, 49, 56, 60, 67, 74
Flint, Christopher, 110
Flint, Kate: The Feeling of Reading, 266n12; The Woman Reader, 61, 68, 89
flypaper, 221, 238, 248, 254, 289n21
food, 35, 206; and abjection of books, 220; book as replacing, 30–31; book’s content as, 24; and gender, 10, 31; leftover, 183; and Mayhew, 221, 241–42; and mind/body puns, 27; and pages, 245; and paper, 226–27; and paper for pie plates, 10, 27, 31, 54–55, 56, 219; paper for sealing, 9; public distribution of, 206
food wrapping: and Mayhew, 221, 242; and mind/body puns, 27; paper for, 8, 31, 250; as reading, 240, 242, 255, 257; for sandwiches, 27, 35
“Foreign Missions at Home,” 157
Forster, E. M., Howards End, 75
Forster, John, 83–84, 85, 96
Foucault, Michel, 150
found objects, 90, 110, 124–25, 250, 251, 256. See also under manuscript(s)
“Frank” and I, 215
Frankel, Oz, 145
Franklin, Ben, 278n8
Fraser, Robert, 272n18
Fraser’s, 26, 105, 129, 280n8
Freedgood, Elaine, 21; The Ideas in Things, 22
Freeland, Natalka, 251; “Trash Fiction,”
247
free print, 6, 8, 150, 164, 206, 212
freethinkers, 16, 40, 156
Fried, Michael, Absorption and Theatricality, 73
friendship, 14, 15, 132, 144, 194
Friswell, Hain, 142, 226, 247
Frith, Gail, 73
Fritzsche, Peter, 149
Fuller, Margaret, 197–98
“Furniture Books,” 3
Fyfe, Aileen: “Commerce and Philanthropy,” 111, 150; Science and Salvation, 38, 134, 279n17
Gagnier, Regenia, Subjectivities, 268n25
Gallagher, Catherine, Nobody’s Story, 268n28, 282n37
Galsworthy, John, “Quality,” 29, 30
Gamer, Michael, “Waverley and the Object of (Literary) History,” 278n14
Garvey, Ellen Gruber, 19
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn: The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 275n21; Mary Barton, 70; My Lady Ludlow, 282n34; North and South, 2, 70, 93
gender, 10, 75, 283n2; and Charlotte Adams, 285n28; and class, 197, 236; and division of labor, 100; and food vs. books, 31; and it-narrative, 240; jokes about, 24; and literacy, 2; and newspapers, 51; and newspaper vs. novel, 48; and Pitman, 99; and prize books, 163; and text, 17; and text vs. book, 31. See also men; sexuality; women
gentleman, 68, 92, 146, 220, 237, 238
Gentleman’s Magazine, 2, 123
gentry, 11, 213–14
Gettelman, Debra, 274n9
Ghosh, Anindita, 160
Gibbon, Edward, 1
gifts, 139, 149; Bibles as, 115, 123, 151, 189, 209; books as, 6, 49, 109, 115, 123, 139, 146, 149, 151, 155, 156, 162, 163, 189, 204; religious tracts as, 109, 150–62, 201, 206, 217
Gigante, Linda, 233, 237
Gilbert Guestling, or, the Story of a Hymn-Book, 209
Gillray, James, “Matrimonial Harmonics,” 53
Gilmartin, Kevin, 151, 181, 280n13
Ginzburg, Carlo, 32, 33, 130
Girl’s Own Paper, 134
Gissing, George, 77, 259; New Grub Street, 31, 258; Our Friend the Charlatan, 41; The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 30–31, 258; “The Prize Lodger,” 55
Gitelman, Lisa, 265n4
Gladstone, Mary, 58
Gladstone, W. E., “On Books and the Housing of Them,” 144, 184, 228, 234, 236
Gleanings from Popular Authors, 98, 99, 100
“Goblin and the Huckster, The,” 252
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 117, 118, 120, 124, 125, 131–32
God/providence, 14, 17, 134, 135
Godwin, William, Political Justice, 245
Goffman, Erving, 48; Behavior in Public Places, 68, 271n6
Goldsmith, Oliver: History of Rome, 73, 74, 80; The Vicar of Wakefield, 82
Goodell, Charles Le Roy, My Mother’s Bible, 278n9
Goody, Jack, 143
Goolsbee, Austan, 177
Gosse, Edmund, Father and Son, 252–53, 254
gothic, the, 212–13, 250, 254
Grand, Sarah: The Beth Book, 75, 273n6; The Heavenly Twins, 56
Green, James N., and Peter Stallybrass, 225
Green, Laura: Educating Women, 78; “‘I Recognized Myself in Her,’” 282n27
Green, S. G., 134
Greenwood, Frederick, 195–96
Greenwood, James, “Penny Awfuls,” 69, 70
Greenwood, Thomas, Public Libraries, 195, 228–29
Greetham, David, “What Is Textual Scholarship?”, 237, 266n10
Gregg, John Robert, 97
Grenby, M. O., “Chapbooks, Children, and Children’s Literature,” 281n26
Griswold, Wendy, 57
Groller, Balduin, 256
Gurney, Thomas, Brachygraphy, 96, 106
Hackman, Alfred, 37–38
Hadley, Elaine, Living Liberalism, 280n10
Hadley, Tessa, “Seated Alone with a Book. . . . ,” 271n5
Haggard, H. Rider, 236
Hamel, Christopher de, 233
Hamilton, Elizabeth, and Claire Grogan, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers, 215, 245
Hamilton, Frances, 176
Handed-On: Or, the Story of a Hymn Book, 109, 112, 119–20
handling, 5–6, 8, 71; and animal origins, 132; and children vs. adults, 75, 78, 100; and contact with others, 139, 140; disparate activities of, 10; and Eliot, 171; evidence of, 20, 32, 256; gentle, 186; infection through, 15; and it-narrative, 121–24, 126; lexicon for manual gestures of, 7; and Mayhew, 220, 239, 240, 257; and mental vs. manual operations, 113; of novels vs. tracts, 212; and object narrative, 128; of old books, 10; and reading, 257; reading of, 33–38; refusal of, 8; and Religious Tract Society, 111; by servants, 175–93; and sexuality, 197; and social relations, 9–10; and social world, 9, 12–13, 31, 175, 218; and spirit vs. matter, 28; survival of, 225; and tracts, 152, 175–76, 259
handmaid, and bibliographer, 237, 252
handpress era, 11, 109, 120
Hardy, Thomas, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 46–47
Hare, Augustus, 89
Harmsworth, Alfred, Lord Northcliffe, 218
Harries, Patrick, 40
Harrington, Charles, The Republican Refuted, 232
Harrison, Frederic, The Choice of Books, 140
Hazlitt, William, 5
Heine, Heinrich, 3, 126
Henkin, David, City Reading, 271n6
heroic myth, 16
heroic narrative, 54
hidden hand, 111
Hileken, G. F., 201–2
Hill, Rowland, 206, 208, 216, 286n30; Post Office Reform, 147–48, 217, 286n30
Hill, Rowland, and George Birkbeck Norman Hill, The Life of Sir Rowland Hill, 145, 146–47, 286n30
Hinduism, 28
History of a Bible, 111, 112, 125, 126–27, 240
History of a Book, The, 111, 126
“History of an Old Pocket Bible, The,” 109, 115, 118–19
History of a Pocket Prayer Book, Written by Itself, The, 109
History of a Religious Tract Supposed to Be Related by Itself, The, 109, 111, 115, 116, 117, 118, 122, 125
History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 134
History of the Devil, The, 72, 78, 79
Hitchman, Francis, 40
Hitler, Adolf, Mein Kampf, 149
Hofmeyr, Isabel, 23
Holcroft, Thomas, Hugh Trevor, 3, 126
Hollywood, 62
Holsinger, Bruce, 28, 132
Hone, William, 245
Hood, Thomas, 27; “The Choice Works of Thomas Hood,” 279n3
Horsburgh, Matilda, 111; The Story of a Red Velvet Bible, 109, 116
horses, 12, 28, 223
hors-texte, 23, 27
Household Words, 62, 74
House of Lords, 196
Howsam, Leslie, 123, 151, 155, 160, 244
“How to Make a Chatelaine a Real Blessing to Mothers,” 51, 52
“How to Read Tracts,” 2, 91
Humphreys, Arthur Lee, The Private Library, 19
Hunt, Lynn, 125
Hunter, Dard, 225
Hunter, Ian: “The History of Theory,” 268n27; “Literary Theory in Civil Life,” 30; “Setting Limits to Culture,” 265n8
husbands, 12, 47, 72; as beating wives, 53, 124; books as refuge from wives of, 55; and distraction of reading novels, 193; as hiding behind newspapers, 13, 51, 62; hiding by, 13, 15; as hiding from wives, 74; and newspapers, 55–56, 62, 73, 203; of New Woman fiction, 53; as preventing wives from reading, 55–56; reading as sign of lost happiness of, 58–59; and romance with characters, 259; and shrewish wife, 53; text as invisible to, 50; in Thackeray, 66; and unread newspaper, 73; wife’s freedom from gaze of, 61; and wives, 15; wives as blocking from reading, 54. See also marriage; men
Hutton, R. H., 96
Hyde, Lewis, 139
hymnbooks, 109, 119–20, 209, 231, 241
identity, 8, 10; and differentiation from other readers, 199; in G. Eliot, 140, 168, 169; and it-narrative, 129; of reader, 18, 81; and reading, 139; and religious tracts, 164, 165, 166, 167
identity politics, 96
individual, 268n25, 280n12, 291n3; and bildungsroman, 17, 130, 193; and conversion narrative, 193; and dependence on multiple agents, 176–77; in Dickens, 86; and family, 193; and feminism, 51, 56; and free print, 164; and it-narratives, 120–21; joining and separation of, 13; as market of novels, 14; and mass public, 218, 260; and novels, 15; novels of development of, 3; and postal debates, 216, 286n30; and reading, 176; and reading logistics, 176; and silent reading, 16; and social dependence, 203–4; and text vs. book, 17; and tracts, 15, 164, 175
industrial novel, 239
information overload, 146, 156, 213, 234
inscription, 172, 258; in Dickens, 94, 101, 102, 103, 104, 128, 130, 140; in Eliot, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173; and servants, 186; technologies of, 101
“Institution for the Evangelization of Gypsies,” 122
interiority, 13, 16, 47, 51, 71, 78, 82, 148, 193, 239
interpersonal connections: book as competing with, 14; and religious tracts, 17, 190, 194. See also social relationships
interpretation: and dusting and shelving, 7; limits of, 219, 256; reading as, 8, 21, 22, 93; and social life of books, 34; and tracts, 152; typological, 130
interpretive communities, 151–52
Irish, 93, 206, 236, 241
irony, 17
Irving, Washington, 230
it-narratives, 14, 37, 39, 107–35, 168, 256, 278n14; and Addison, 235; and aging, 223; as allegory of authorship, 110; and authors, 110; and beating, 124; and bildungsroman, 124–30, 131; and body, 118, 125; and book-object, 110, 132; and children, 108–9, 125, 129; and circulation, 14, 110; and death, 228; defined, 107; and Dickens, 122–23, 126–27, 128–29; eighteenth-century, 108, 109; and Eliot, 241; as found objects, 110; and health vs. misfortune, 229; and life cycle of books, 109; and life story, 125; as literal representation of the book, 110; and Mayhew, 231, 239, 245; and narrator, 109, 111, 112–13, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 165, 278n13; old paper in, 250; persons linked to books in, 126; and printed objects, 130; and prison metaphor, 111–12, 127, 226; and providence, 242; and religion, 109; and religious publications, 110–20; and religious tracts, 153; and respect for books, 186, 188; and sense of self, 128; and servants, 112–13, 165; and social scale, 247; structure of, 112, 118; and subjectivity, 124, 125, 128; and suffering, 118, 122, 123, 124, 129; and transmission vs. destruction, 240; and voice, 109, 110, 114, 116, 119, 124, 127, 128; and vulnerability, 118, 122, 128
