by Price, Leah
Obscene Publications Act of 1857, 196
Ogden, R., 40, 208
Oliphant, Margaret, 166–67; Kirsteen, 55, 68, 261
“One Thing at a Time,” 188, 190, 191
Ong, Walter, 104
Orwell, George, Animal Farm, 28–29
“Our Ladies’ Chatterbox,” 97
Oxford University Press, 28
Paddington Dust Wharf District, 161
page(s): and clothes, 248; dog-eared, 257; faded, 257; and groceries, 245; and paper, 26; smell of, 256–57; as street, 94; uncut, 19, 70, 197, 240, 249, 256, 257, 259. See also book(s)
Paget, F. E., Lucretia, 24, 186
Pall Mall Gazette, 142
pamphlets, 239
paper, 236; absorbency of, 9, 11; and Addison, 234–35; body as, 102–3; character as piece of, 94; cheapening of, 11, 15; circulation of, 110; and class, 180–81; for curlpapers, 10, 99, 231; for dress patterns, 54–55, 56, 219; durability of, 225; exceptionality and typicality of, 223; as food wrapping, 8, 92, 93, 226, 231–32, 233–34, 239, 250, 252; high cost of, 5; and it-narratives, 231; and Knight, 235–36; as legible grocery wrapping, 252; life cycle of, 11, 110, 227, 238, 239–40; for lighting fire, 232, 233, 236; machine-made, 141; making of, 9, 11, 14, 144, 229–30; and Mayhew, 221–45, 246, 248–49, 255–56; as mortal, 251; nontextual, practical uses for, 160; and pages, 26; for pie plates, 10, 27, 31, 54–55, 56, 219; and preservation vs. destruction, 225–26; price of, 249–54; production of, 141; properties of, 17; rag, 28; rag substitutes for, 249; raw material for, 127–28; recycling of, 12, 14, 15, 221, 239, 288n7; and relations among rich and poor, 235; resale of, 9, 148, 221, 222, 223, 231, 238, 239, 242; restricted imports of, 9; scarcity of, 8–9, 206; scarcity vs. surfeit of, 216; for sealing food, 9; and sex, 77; sizing for, 9; successive handlers of, 183; taxes on, 9, 38, 141, 219, 220, 225, 249, 290n31; as uniting classes through handling, 239; use by pastry-cook, 239; use by trunk-maker, 239; uses of, 219–20; for wiping excrement, 219, 220, 226–27, 231, 233; and wood pulp, 219, 220, 249–50; for wrapping, 220. See also book(s); newspapers; wastepaper
paratext, 110, 171, 172
parchment, 28, 102–3, 132
parents, 12, 13, 15, 90, 91; and books as shields, 57; books from, 109, 162, 163, 164, 167; and censorship, 203; and found manuscript, 251; influence of, 165, 189; lies to, 202. See also children; mothers
Park, Rev. Harrison G., Father’s and Mother’s Manual and Youth’s Instructor, 52
Parks, Lisa, 224
“Parlour Library,” 62
Pawnbrokers’ Gazette, The, 189–90
Pearson, Jacqueline, Women’s Reading in Britain, 285n27
Pedersen, Susan, 153, 210
penny dreadfuls, 11, 201
Penny Magazine, 141
penny serials, 206
Pepys, Samuel, 96
Percy, Thomas, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 236
periodicals, 12, 141–42, 202
personification, 133, 134. See also it-narratives
Peters, John Durham, Speaking into the Air, 280n6
Peterson, Carla, The Determined Reader, 274n12
Petrarch, Francis, 132
Petroski, Henry, 23
Pfister, Joel, 22
philanthropists, 155, 206
Phiz [H. K. Browne], 99; “Our Housekeeping,” The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 100
Phonetic Journal, 97
phonograph, 96, 97
Picker, John M., 95
Pickering, Samuel F., Jr., 285n21
“Pioneer Work in China,” 244–45
Piozzi, Hester, 132–33
Pitman, Isaac, 99; Stenographic Soundhand, 96
Pitmanism, 96–97
Pitman reprints, 99
Plato, 102
Platonism, 32
Plotz, John: “Out of Circulation,” 266n15; Portable Property, 285n24
Polastron, Lucien X., Books on Fire, 286n1
poor people, 9, 11, 17, 87, 162, 231, 235, 261
Poovey, Mary: Genres of the Credit Economy, 278n13; “The Limits of the Universal Knowledge Project,” 266n10; Uneven Developments, 95, 98–99, 101
Pope, Alexander, 9–10
Popper, Karl, 32
Popular German Reader, 98
pornography, 19, 196
Porteus, Bishop, 210
postage, 145, 146, 286n30; and payment on delivery vs. prepayment, 145, 147–48; penny, 14
postal system, 6, 35, 145, 216–17; reform of, 146, 199. See also junk mail; mail
Potato Famine, 206
pothooks, 94, 95, 96, 99
powerless, the, 87, 139, 203
Pratt, Sarah G. S., First Homes, 276n3
Price, Leah: The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, 282n30; “Stenographic Masculinity,” 95, 275n16
printed matter, 16, 32–33, 94, 225–26; as chain, 14–15; free and subsidized, 12; and human relationships, 113; and manuscripts, 216; physicality of, 219; and postage, 286n30
printing, 20; changes in, 11; cost of raw materials for, 141; employment in, 141; speed and cost of, 141; and steam-printing, 141
print media vs. digital media, 7
print metaphor, 101–2
privacy, 62, 183
privy, 7, 18. See also paper: for wiping excrement
production, 35; cost of, 144; traditional focus on, 20
“Progress of Fiction as an Art, The,” 241
prosopopoeia, 122
Prosser, Sophie Amelia, Susan Osgood’s Prize, 68–69, 113
prostitutes, 12, 190
Protestantism, 16, 39, 40, 135, 157, 164, 203–4
pseudomemoirs, 250
Public Libraries Act of 1850, 62, 244
public/private spectrum, 61–62, 175
public sphere, 51, 62, 260
publishing, 20, 36, 90, 141
Puccini, Giacomo, and Henri Murger, La Bohème, 237
Pugh, S. S., 133
pulping, 7
Punch, 51, 52, 62, 186, 276n30, 281n16, 283n2; “An Appeal Case. House of Lords,” 58; “Bachelor Days. IV,” 281n16; “Emancipation,” 60, 61; “The Honeymoon,” 64; “Married for Money—The Honeymoon,” 63; “A Perfect Wretch,” 65; “Report of the Select Committee on Parliamentary Petitions,” 232; and “Singular Letter from the Regent of Spain,” 204–6; “A Soft Answer,” 187; “The Waning of the Honeymoon,” 66
Punch’s Prize Novels, 85
puns. See wordplay/puns
Quarterly, 142, 211
Quire of Paper, 118, 119
Rabelais, François, 141
race, 24–25, 237
Radway, Jan, 75; Reading the Romance, 51
Rae, W. Fraser, 177
Railway Anecdote Book, The, 24–25
“Railway Libraries,” 62
“Railway Literature,” 24
railway novels, 62
Raitt, Suzanne, 222
Ransome, Arthur, 163
Raven, James, The Business of Books, 16
Raverat, Gwen, 9
Reach, Angus, 121
reader response, 20, 90
readers, 107; abstraction of, 31; alignment with identity of characters, 166–67, 168; association with other, 168; and authors, 12, 15, 67, 81, 218; as binding-blind and edition-deaf, 7; bodies of successive and simultaneous, 12; and characters, 175; collective, commercialized, 258–59; communities of, 151; cultural criticism of annotations of, 20; different classes of, 17; as disembodied, 31, 220; fellow, 140; good, 33; and identity, 18; implied, 8; internalist account of, 131; lack of belonging to, 8; lower classes as, 27; and niche marketing, 164–68; relationships forged with fellow, 18; of religious tracts, 151–53; self-made, 13, 86, 124; and social inferiors, 15; and social status, 18; and strangers, 51; targeting of, 162; text as poison to, 15; as unclassed, 31
reading: absence of vs. absence of use, 10; absorptive, 72, 80–81, 88, 89, 190; as acceptable, 189–90; ambivalence about, 67; antisocial, 3; avoidance of coupling characters with, 45–47; as barrier, 81; and breakdown of marriage,
58–59, 61; as bridge, 51, 81; and children, 2; choice of material for, 140; and circulation, 5–6; and class, 105–6; close, 130; and collecting, 111, 112; and consumption, 34; different agendas served by, 10; distant, 21; evidence of, 19; as feminine source of interiority, individuality, or authenticity, 51; and food wrapping, 240, 242, 255, 257; and Gissing, 258; half-remembered, 92; and handling, 5–6, 20, 257; as heroically antisocial, 67; history of, 34, 131; and identity, 139; and indigestion, 140; and individualism, 176; in institutional context, 90; instrumentality of, 89–90; as interpersonal act, 67–68; and interpersonal bonds, 14; and interpersonal exchanges, 190–91; as interpretation, 8, 21–22, 93; lack of interest in, 14; lexicon for mental act of, 7; logistical, 21; manual dimension of, 22; and manual labor, 101; and market value, 57; mental act of, 8; as morally corrupting, 69–70; of new books, 10; of newspapers by strangers, 15; and nonverbal operations, 23; opportunity cost of, 91; and perceptual senses, 32–33; for pleasure, 89; as poaching, 70; prevention of, 81; and privacy, 61; privileging of, 20–22; recuperative, 21; as reductively other-directed, 67; refusal of, 8; remembered, 80, 94; representation of, 12, 14, 16; rhetorical, 62; and schoolroom, 101; secondhand, 258; as secret vs. sham, 74; and selfhood vs. dependence, 216; shared act of, 175; silent, 16, 67–68; sociable, 82; and social barriers, 175; as social cement, 61; solipsistic, 62; as subversive, 75–76; as term in Dickens, 21–22, 23; and trade, 101; uncritical, 21; as uniting, 239; used to define relation between two spheres, 57; vulgar owning without, 84, 85; as weapon of weak, 56; and white-collar spaces, 101; without buying, 84–85
reading aloud, 9, 12, 84, 176, 213–16
“Reading and Readers,” 201–2
reading copies, 2–3, 4, 35
realism, 12, 25, 26, 27–28, 59, 67, 77, 108, 221, 251, 253
“Recent Novels,” 211
reception, 13
reception history, 7, 19, 20, 34, 74, 130
reception studies, 260
reception theory, 131, 219
Record Office, 145
Reed, C., 157, 158
Reeser, Todd W., and Steven D. Spalding, 265n8
Reformation, 39, 233
reformist genres, 239
Regency era, 3
rejection history, 7–8
religious magazines, 117, 118
religious press, 41, 131–32
religious publications: and circulation, 119; and it-narratives, 110–20; sale of, 114–15, 117
religious relics, 15, 169, 229
Religious Text Society, 112, 151, 204, 205, 243, 251; magazines of, 132; publications of, 133–34; and reward books, 162
religious tract distribution, 155–64, 243; blame for, 184; and book collecting, 182–83; channels for, 150–51; and Collins, 207–13, 215; and dependence, 216; and gifts, 109, 150–62, 201, 206, 217; and Gosse, 253; and History of a Religious Tract, 111; jokes about, 176, 204, 210; networks for, 139, 145; and novels, 206–7, 213; and pickpocketing, 202, 211; and postal system, 216–17; and providentialism, 251–52; and readers’ and characters’ identity, 167; representation of, 206–7; and social class, 175, 178, 198, 199; and Thackeray, 201; and upper class, 153
religious tract distributors, 121–22, 134; mockery of, 204–13; and working-class, 14
religious tracts, 144, 150–64, 179, 203–4, 219, 285n24, 289n26; and advertising circulars, 217; and authors, 151; and bulk mail, 216–17; and children, 165; and Collins, 207–13; and face-to-face interactions, 152; and familial power struggles, 73; and family, 193; and givers and takers, 152; giving vs. reading in, 153; and identity, 164, 165, 166, 167; and inner life, 16; and interpersonal relations, 17; and it-narratives, 109, 153; as linking readers, 12, 15; as matching readers, 139; and Mayhew, 250; as medicine, 159; as mirrored in novels, 207; and modern city, 155; and niche marketing, 164–68; and novels, 176; pagans as tearing up, 39; proliferation of, 150; providentialism of, 251–52; read under wrong circumstances, 189–90; and realist novel, 28; refusal to read, 212; and relation to books vs. people, 110; as required reading, 14; resale value of, 206; and self-assertion, 193; and self-referentiality, 155; for servants, 178–80; and servants’ dependence, 184; as silent messenger, 132; and social relationships, 151–52, 155, 175, 194; and sowing motif, 145–46; subsidized, 15, 17; and supply and demand, 176; as talking and walking, 133–34; and upper class as moral arbiters, 153; value of, 156–57; visits through, 155; and waste paper, 243–45
religious tract societies, 151; and class, 178; and gifts vs. sales, 217; and giving, 178; and markets, 164; satires on, 156
Religious Tract Society, 111, 150, 206; and Hill, 217; and niche marketing, 165; and tract distribution as pickpocketing, 202, 211
reprints, 12, 17–18, 20, 143, 247
rereading, 247
resale, 176, 249, 289n22
resale market, 31, 249
resale value, 160–61, 177
“Review of Castle Richmond,” 29
“Review of Illustrations of Political Economy,” 199
reward books, 162, 163, 164, 192
Reynolds, John Stewart, and W. H. Griffith Thomas, 157, 208
Reynolds, Kimberley, 102, 162
Richards, Thomas, 265n6
Richardson, A., 90, 102
Richardson, Samuel, 203; Clarissa, 67–68; Letters, 89; Pamela, 233, 234, 259, 286n30
Richmond, Legh, 133
rich people, 9, 11, 87, 231, 235, 261
Rickards, Maurice, and Michael Twyman, 102, 149, 195, 208
Rigby, Elizabeth, 193
Robbins, Bruce, 175, 189
Roberts, Lewis C., 196
Robinson, Howard, 217
Robson, Catherine, 88
Roche, Regina Maria, The Children of the Abbey, 197
romance, 14, 26, 60, 112, 113, 202–3, 212, 254, 259; and Cervantes, 84; dangers of reading, 113; and Mayhew, 251; patriarchal content of, 51; and Thackeray, 88; and tracts, 167; and Trollope, 59
Romantics, 91
Rose, Jonathan, The Intellectual Life, 83
Rosman, Doreen M., 209
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 102
runaway, 127–28
Ruskin, John, 30, 140–41; The Stones of Venice, 21
Russia, 1
Ruth, Jennifer, 95
Rymer, James Malcom, The White Slave, 206
“Sailors and Their Hardships on Shore, The,” 157
Sala, G. A., “A Journey Due North,” 74
Sarah Ellis, 68
Sargent, George Etell: The Story of a Pocket Bible, 109, 111, 112–13, 115, 116, 120, 162, 165, 178, 180, 182, 183–84, 189, 190, 277n5; “The Story of a Pocket Bible, 1st series,” 114; “The Story of a Pocket Bible, 2nd Series,” 121
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 51, 83
satire, 17, 54, 77, 176, 202, 204–13, 240–41, 242
Saturday Review, 29
Scarry, Elaine, 32, 33
scatological humor, 77, 233, 236, 242. See also jokes
Schneider, Mark A., 265n8
schools, 1, 11, 14, 88, 89, 100, 104, 105, 204. See also education
school textbooks, 14, 88
Schreiner, Olive, The Story of an African Farm, 72–73
Scott, Patrick, 162
Scott, Walter, 79, 173; Waverley, 33, 278n14; Waverley novels, 89, 291n3
secondhand trade, 12, 90, 176, 219, 227, 242, 246, 248–49
secular fiction, 17
secularism, 16
secular press, 139, 166, 176, 204
Sedgwick, Eve, 21
seduction narratives, 124, 125
Seed, David, 126
self: books imagined to possess, 120; boundaries of, 76; development of, 107
self-assertion, 193
self-creation, 90
self-denial, 69
self-fashioning, 17
selfhood, 10, 71, 82; and bildungsroman, 68; and David Copperfield, 83
self-improvement, 167
selfishness, 69, 82
self-referentiality, 76, 77, 110, 116, 142, 153, 155
self-restrain
t, 69
sensation fiction, 177, 210, 212, 283n2
senses, perceptual, 31, 32–33
serials, taxes on, 38
servants, 120, 238; and abjection of books, 220; and absorption in books, 190; access to books, 178, 283n8; and anxieties about shared books, 194; and bookbindings, 116, 178; bookbindings as tempting disobedience, 186; book handling by, 177; books as inflaming desires of, 186; and children, 163, 188; as corrupting, 202–3; dehumanized, 177; and dependence and religious tracts, 184; in Dickens, 105; and dirt, 183, 184, 185, 186, 200; dusting by, 175–76, 177, 182, 185, 186, 192, 240, 283n5, 284n10; eavesdropping by, 188; and education, 189; and family prayers, 214; hands of, 183, 184; industry of, 182; and jokes, 26, 186; literacy of, 178, 188; literalistic, 94–95; locks against, 36, 183, 283n7, 284n16; and masters, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 165, 175, 177–93, 198, 199–200, 202, 240; and masters’ apparent reading, 57–58; and mistress-maid relations, 35, 188, 247; newspapers shared with, 178, 183, 197; and page sizing, 9; and paper wrapping, 93; paternalism toward, 189; procurement of novels on sly from, 15; proper handling of books by, 185; and reading, 15; reading of, 175–76; reading under acceptable circumstances by, 190–92; and religious publications, 116, 178–80, 184; respect from, 186–87; selection of books for, 163, 167, 188, 199–200; and sexuality, 185, 198; and social class, 178; and Story of a Pocket Bible, 112–13, 165; use of master’s reading matter by, 197, 199–200, 237; use of mistress’s books by, 35, 188; use of newspapers by, 178, 183, 197; use of reading matter by, 8, 13, 197, 199–200, 237; use of valued paper by, 236; and wives, 55; workrooms of, 101
Sewell, Anna, Black Beauty, 125
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing: Cleve Hall, 47; Gertrude, 68; Laneton Parsonage, 202; Margaret Percival, 68
Sewell, William, Hawkstone, 241
sexuality, 66, 69, 75, 77, 197–98; and book borrowing, 197; and book’s vulnerability, 124; in George Eliot, 62; and marginalia, 197; master-servant, 198; and reading aloud, 215; and servants, 185. See also gender; men; wives; women
Shakespeare, William, 87, 88, 249
Shaw, Graham, “South Asia,” 281n19
Sheridan, Richard, The Rivals, 270n2
Sherman, William H., 134, 225–26, 233, 282n35
Sherwood, Mary, 123, 161; “The History of Susan Gray,” 183; “Intimate Friends,” 203; “Little Henry and his bearer,” 181–82; “The Red Book,” 91
