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Authors: Leah Price
Jakobson, Roman,
25
James, Henry:
The
Awkward
Age
,
50
; “Brooksmith,”
177
; “Greville Fane,”
50
;
In
the
Cage
,
50
,
88
; “The Middle Years,”
45
; “Miss Braddon,”
210
;
What
Maisie
Knew
,
50
James, Louis,
145–46
James, M. R., “Casting the Runes,”
211–12
Jefferson, Thomas,
15
Jeffrey, Francis,
141
Jerrold, Douglas William:
The
Best
of
Mr. Punch
,
54
;
Story
of
a
Feather
,
276
n1
Jerrold, Douglas William, and Charles Keene,
Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures
,
54
Jerrold, Walter,
27
Jevons, William Stanley,
226
,
228
,
231
Jews,
161
Jewsbury, Geraldine,
The
Half-Sisters
,
2
,
70
Jewsbury, Maria Jane,
140
Johnstone, Charles,
Chrysal
,
108
,
109
jokes,
38
,
48
,
77
,
95
,
132
; book as butt of,
10
; and learning to write,
94
; misogynistic,
24
; and servants and masters,
186
; and shrewish wives,
54
; and tract distributors,
204–13
.
See
also
scatological humor; wordplay/puns
Jones, William,
39
,
132
,
133
,
164–65
,
200
,
205
,
217
,
243
Judy, Or the London Serio-Comic Journal
,
74
Kafka, Franz,
Penal
Colony
,
123
Kamensky, Jane,
225
Kaplan, Carla, “Girl Talk,”
291
n2
Kearney, James: “The Book and the Fetish,”
39
;
The
Incarnate
Text
,
39
,
123
,
132
Keller, Helen,
75
Kelly, Gary,
151
Kemble, Frances Ann,
Records
of
Later
Life
,
216
Kindle,
5
Kingsley, Charles,
196
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.,
7
Kiss
in
the
Tunnel, The
,
48
Klancher, Jon,
237
;
The
Making
of
English
Reading
Audiences, 1790–1832
,
291
n3
Knight, Charles:
The
Old
Printer
and
the
Modern
Press
,
145
,
235–36
,
246
;
Passages
of
a
Working
Life
During
Half
a
Century
,
167
;
The
struggles
of
a
book
against
excessive
taxation
,
132
Koops, Matthias,
Historical
Account
of
the
Substances
,
229–30
Kopytoff, Igor,
223
Koran,
15
labels,
225
.
See
also
under
Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield
La Bruyère, Jean de,
28
Lackington, James,
30
Lady
Chatterley’s Trial
,
198
Lamartine, Alphonse de,
263
n4
Lamb, Charles,
27
,
28
; “Detached Thoughts,”
121
; “Readers Against the Grain,”
142
Lamb, Jonathan,
125
Lancastrian system,
102
Lancet
,
145
Lang, Andrew,
The
Library
,
237
,
283
n6
Lantern
Lecture
on
Isaac
Pitman, A
,
97
Laqueur, Thomas Walter,
162
Latham, Sean, and Robert Scholes, “The Rise of Periodical Studies,”
257
Latour, Bruno:
Aramis
,
131
; “Drawing Things Together,”
266
n10
laundry list,
250
,
253
,
254
,
255
,
256
Ledger-Lomas, Michael,
28
,
41
,
150
,
162
Leisure
Hour
,
189
Leland, John,
233
lending and borrowing,
12
,
107
,
113
.
See
also
libraries
Lennox, Charlotte,
The
Female
Quixote
,
57
Lerer, Seth, “Falling Asleep over the History of the Book,”
275
n15
Lesage, Alain-René,
Gil
Blas
,
82
letters,
6
,
146
,
147–48
,
242–43
.
See
also
postage
Levine, Caroline,
The
Serious
Pleasures
of
Suspense
,
282
n37
Levine, George,
129
Lewes, George Henry,
Ranthorpe
,
2
,
33
,
84
,
169
,
239
Lewins, William,
146
liber, double etymology of,
5
liberal democracies,
3
librarian, as warehouseman,
144
,
236
libraries,
7
,
143–44
; aristocratic,
168
; borrowers’ names in books of,
175
; and concerns about contamination,
177
; country-house,
11
; design of,
144–45
; dispersion of collections of,
6
; and Eliot,
168
; free,
226
,
244
; and Gaskell,
93
; and intimate relationships,
198
; and Irving,
230
; lending,
285
n25; as life-giving vs. life-shortening,
226
; patronage of,
84
; patrons of,
15
; as prisons,
127
; public,
11
,
15
,
31
,
175
,
176
,
177
,
178
,
194–96
,
198
; sale of,
3
; and social class,
175
,
176
; and triple-decker,
247
; trompe l’oeil,
23
.
See
also
study
libraries, circulating,
176
,
263
n1; anathematized,
142
; and animal populations,
143
; and Austen,
251
; and bibles,
115
; and book life-span,
226
; ephemerality of novels of,
38
; and fumigation,
196
; life through,
228
; novels of,
13
,
16–17
,
212
,
255
; patrons of,
17
; sale after disuse by,
247
.
See
also
circulation
“Life and Adventures of a Number of Godey’s Lady’s Book, The,”
117–18
,
120–21
,
131–32
Life
of
William
Grimes, the Runaway Slave
,
123
Lincoln, Abraham,
15
linen,
9
,
230
,
234–35
,
250
,
254
,
255
Lintot, Bernard,
9
listening, silent,
12
literacy,
11
,
41
,
289
n26; and African Americans,
198–99
; in Britain,
57
; cheapening of,
15
; and class,
9
,
175
; and Dickens,
1
,
21
,
86
; different models of,
17
; feminization of,
56–57
; as fetishized,
40
; and interiority and political self-determination,
148
; and Mayhew,
135
,
221
,
222
,
287
n5; and men vs. women,
56–57
; and missionaries,
39–40
; and rank or gender,
2
; and rereading vs. reading,
252
; of servants,
178
; and slave narratives,
184
; and social class,
203
,
283
n1; and working-class,
13
,
220
literary criticism,
20
,
22–23
,
28
,
32
,
34
,
35
,
95
,
107
,
130
,
260
literary historicism,
36
“Literary Voluptuaries,”
3
literature, defined,
29
“Literature of the Rail, The,”
132
“Little Jack of All Trades,”
182
London
Courier
,
247
Long, Elizabeth,
Book
Clubs
,
260
Losano, Antonia,
273
n8
lower classes,
26–27
,
39
.
See
also
social class
Lucy
the
Light-Bearer
,
205
Lupton, Christina, “The Knowing Book,”
109
Lynch, Deidre,
30
; “Canon’s Clockwork,”
268
n26,
273
n7;
The
Economy
of
Character
,
108
Macaulay, Thomas Babington: “Minute on Indian Education,”
159
; “Mr. Robert Montgomery,”
232
; “On the Royal Society of Literature,”
149
Macmillan’s
,
53
maidservant,
236–37
mail,
35
,
145–48
,
206
,
216
,
217
.
See
also
distribution; junk mail; postal system
Manguel, Alberto,
The
Library
at
Night
,
90
Mann, G. S.,
132
Mann, Thomas,
Buddenbrooks
,
282
n35
Manning, Anne,
Claude
the
Colporteur
,
121
,
156
,
243
manufactured goods,
246
,
250
,
251
,
256
manuscript culture,
33
manuscript(s),
22
; and Adams,
184
; in Austen,
250
,
253
,
254
,
255
; and Carlyle,
236
,
257
; and Dickens,
103
; and Dinesen,
237
; and Edgeworth,
196
; and Eliot,
172
; as food wrapping,
109
,
252
; found,
213
,
245
,
251
,
252
,
253–54
,
255
; genetic criticism of,
20
; and junk mail,
212
,
216
; in Mayhew,
222
,
227
; and postage,
286
n30; as potholder,
109
; and print,
216
; in Puccini,
237
; and Reformation,
233
; and servants,
236
; street as,
94
; as surviving through women,
240
; and tracts,
251
Mao Zedong,
Little
Red
Book
,
149
Marcus, Sharon:
Between
Women
,
21
; “The Profession of the Author,”
274
n10
Marcus, Steven,
96
marginalia,
12
,
37
,
78
,
79
,
170
,
256
,
260
; anxiety about,
188
; and library books,
198
; and sexuality,
197
margins,
20
,
23
,
259
; pencil marks in,
19
; traces of earlier readers on,
175
,
177
market,
84–85
,
91
,
169
; and Mayhew,
222
,
223
,
239
,
245
; and religious tract vs. advertising,
217
; and secular content,
159
; and secular press,
156
; segmentation of,
166
; and tract societies,
164
marriage,
59
,
124
; and Bosanquet,
201
; in Dickens,
100
; loveless,
59
; mentions of reading before vs. after,
89
; reading and breakdown of,
58–59
,
61
; and Trollope,
47
,
59–60
.
See
also
husbands; wives
Marryat, Frederick,
Mr
Midshipman
Easy
,
99
Martial,
233
Martin, Roger,
203
Martineau, Harriet,
146–47
,
280
n8;
Autobiography
,
147
,
148
,
184
;
Illustrations
of
Political
Economy
,
147
,
199
;
Manchester
Strike
,
199
;
Selected
Letters
,
147
martyrdom,
123
Marx, Groucho,
132
mass audience,
83
masters: and bodies,
184
,
185–86
; and bookbinding,
178
; books as shielding,
57–58
; and book sharing,
202
; and censorship,
203
; and family,
193
; and godly books,
175
; in home,
175
; and jokes,
186
; legacies upon death of,
183
; neglect of books by,
240
; procurement of novels by,
15
; and religious tracts,
165
; and servants,
9
,
12
,
13
,
15
,
57–58
,
165
,
175
,
177–93
,
198
,
199–200
,
202
,
240
; and servants’ use of reading matter,
197
,
199–200
,
237
; and sexuality,
198
; and shared access to bookshelves,
177
; and shared newspapers,
178
,
183
,
197
; and social class,
178
; and use of books,
178
,
199–200
material conditions,
130
material culture,
32
material form,
4
,
6
,
7
; indifference to,
5
,
17
materialism,
70
,
131
,
169
; and class,
11
; and idealism,
90
materiality,
79
; of book,
32
; in G. Eliot,
80
; intellectual abstraction by its material corollary,
26
; and moral shallowness,
3
; and scholarship,
20
material media,
71
material objects, vocabulary for,
22
material perspective, in Dickens,
21
material value,
8–9
Mathers, Helen,
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
,
271
n9
Maxwell, Clerk,
21
Maxwell, Herbert,
141
Mayhew, Henry,
14
,
15
,
30
,
135
,
148
,
151
;
Essential
Mayhew
,
239
; and fiction,
287
n6;
Voices
of
the
Poor
,
158
—
London
Labour
and
the
London
Poor
,
250
,
251
,
254
,
255–56
,
257
,
261
; and after-uses of paper,
220–28
,
231
,
234
,
235
; and cloth,
248–49
; and free print,
245
; and legible texts,
240
,
241–43
; and resale value,
161
; and social order,
238–41
; and tract distributors,
155
; and tracts and advertisements,
217
Mayhew, Horace,
Letters
Left
at
the
Pastrycook’s
,
251
McDonald, Peter, “Ideas of the Book and Histories of Literature,”
23
McGann, Jerome,
134
McGill, Meredith, “American Pickwick,”
272
n2
McGurl, Mark,
265
n4
McKelvy, William R
., The English Cult of Literature
,
41
,
282
n28
McKenzie, D. F.,
Printers
of
the
Mind
,
22
McKitterick, David:
The
Cambridge
History
of
the
Book
in
Britain
,
56
,
219
; “Organizing Knowledge in Print,”
145
McLuhan, Marshall,
254
medieval scriptorium,
31
Melville, Herman, “The Tartarus of Maids,”
103
,
146
memoirs,
6
,
9
,
17
,
41
,
83
,
89–90
,
107
,
203
men,
52
; access to books,
91
; and book as buffer from women,
81
; and copying,
100
; and food vs. books,
31
; and gendered division of labor,
100
; and newspapers and novels,
177
; and reading aloud,
214
,
215
; and shorthand,
97
,
98
,
99
; and texts,
10
.
See
also
gender; husbands; sexuality
metaphors: in Dickens,
92
,
96
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
106
,
129
,
130
; and literary criticism,
34
; and metonymy,
25
,
127
,
130
; and newspaper as rag,
127
; reading as,
93
; reliteralization of dead,
25
metonymic reading,
21
metonymy,
25
,
127
; in Dickens,
103
,
106
,
129
,
130
; and literary criticism,
34
; and Mayhew,
221
Metro International,
149
Microsoft Bob,
24
middle class,
17
,
38
,
140
,
207
,
218
,
240
; and abjection of books,
220
; and bildungsroman,
16
,
17
; children of,
14
,
17
; critiques of,
176
; and Dickens,
105
; and education,
14
; and fiction,
13
; and free print,
164
; and Gaskell,
93
; girls of,
69
; and library,
194
; and master-servant relations,
198
; and materialism,
11
; and Mayhew,
221
,
238
; and moral failings,
201–3
; and morality and circumstances of reading,
192–93
; and novels as distracting,
193
; and prize books,
163
; and religious publications,
116
; secular novels of,
153
,
155
; self-criticism of,
204
; soiling of books by,
200
; and tracts,
178–80
,
210
; and triple-deckers,
206
.
See
also
social class
“Midland District Conference of the National Federation of Shorthand Writers’ Associations,”
97
Mill, John Stuart,
Principles
of
Political
Economy
,
72
Miller, Andrew,
Novels
behind
Glass
,
274
n14
Millington, Thomas Street,
Straight
to
the
Mark
,
63
,
133
Mills, John,
The
English
Fireside
,
233
Milton, John,
Areopagitica
,
123
mind,
45
,
71
,
99
,
218
; book as prompt for,
73
,
91
; in Charlotte Brontë,
80
; child’s withdrawal into,
75
; and Conrad of Hirsau,
264
n7; in Dickens,
92
,
102
,
103
,
104
,
106
,
127
,
129
; and Eliot,
79
; and gentleman,
237
; growth of child’s,
130
; and Hardy,
46–47
; and manual operations,
113
; and reading,
7
,
8
; tracking of,
19
; user’s absence of,
46
mind and body,
22
,
257
; and book and text,
78
,
129
; in Dickens,
78
,
106
; in Eliot,
79
; and experience,
75
; puns about,
26
,
27
,
78
Ministering
Children
,
123
Missing
Link, The
,
30
missionaries,
7
,
14
,
30
,
39
,
133
,
156–61
,
249
.
See
also
Protestantism
missionary autobiography,
123
missionary baskets,
213
missionary press,
14
Mitch, David,
The
Rise
of
Popular
Literacy
in
Victorian
England
,
264
n8
Molesworth, Mrs.,
168
; “On the Use and Abuse of Fiction,”
173
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin),
249
monasteries, dissolution of,
233
Moncrieff, W. T.,
The
March
of
Intellect; a Comic Poem
,
26
money,
2
,
8
,
171–72
.
See
also
banknotes; coins
Montaigne, Michel de,
141
Montgomery, Robert,
Satan
,
232
Monthly
Messenger, The
,
132
morality: and children,
13
; and circumstances of reading,
192–93
; and class critiques,
201
; and free books,
6
; and it-narrative and bildungsroman,
131
; and language of insides and outsides,
3
; and look of books,
2
,
16
,
73
; and oath of revenge on bible,
168
,
171
; and power of books,
7
; and religious tracts,
153
; and selfhood,
10
,
82
; and text vs. book,
91
; and threat of disease,
196
; and use of books a proxy for moral worth,
78
; and women,
56