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Authors: Leah Price
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
,
287
n6
Bratton, J. S.,
The
Impact
of
Victorian
Children’s Fiction
,
162
,
277
n5
Bread
Basket
,
245
“Brevities,”
232
Brewer, John,
130
Bridges, Thomas,
Adventures
of
a
Bank-note
,
278
n13
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
,
284
n15; 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,”
266
n11
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,
266
n11
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
Calvino, Italo,
If
on
a
Winter’s Night a Traveler
,
263
n1
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
Carlyle, Thomas,
238
;
The
French
Revolution
,
236
,
257
;
On
Heroes
,
33
;
Sartor
Resartus
,
235
,
248
Cartesianism,
32
Cassian,
103
Cervantes, Miguel de,
57
;
Don
Quixote
,
67
,
82
,
84
,
212
,
250
,
251
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
,
265
n6;
The
Order
of
Books
,
131
,
283
n1
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
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
Cohen, Jessica, and Pascaline Dupas,
159
Colclough, Stephen,
247
Colclough, Stephen, and David Vincent,
56
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
,
285
n24;
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,
264
n7
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
,
267
n24
Cornhill
,
178
“Cottage Library of Christian Knowledge, The,”
111
Cottage
Magazine; or, Plain Christian’s Library
,
115
country-house collectors,
11
Cox, Caroline,
285
n21
Craik, D. M.,
122
Craik, George,
The
Pursuit
of
Knowledge
under
Difficulties
,
140
Crary, Jonathan,
Suspensions
of
Perception
,
272
n14
Crayon, Geoffrey,
230
Crébillon, Claude,
Le
sopha
,
109
Cressy, David,
40
Culler, Jonathan, “Anderson and the Novel,”
291
n4
Curtius, Ernst Robert,
11
cybertheorists,
135