How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (73 page)

Stimpson, Felicity,
116

Stock, Jan,
226

Stone, Lawrence,
189

storytelling,
104
,
105

Stott, Anne,
151

study,
13
,
23
,
25
,
26
,
55
,
85
,
99
,
100
,
235
,
285
n25.
See
also
libraries

Sturgis, Howard Overing,
Belchamber
,
59

Suarez, Michael Felix, and H. R. Woudhuysen,
263
n4

subject, formation of,
130

suffering: and bildungsroman,
129
; as defining limits of the human,
125
; and Exeter Book,
132
; and it-narratives,
118
,
122
,
124
,
129

Sumerian clay tablets,
225

sumptuary codes,
116
,
132

Sunday
at
Home
,
112
,
114

Swell’s Night Guide
,
96

Swift, Jonathan,
Gulliver’s Travels
,
80

Sylph
,
67
,
75

talking bible,
113

talking books,
108
,
109

talking tracts,
110–11

Tanselle, Thomas,
263
n4

Tatar, Maria,
274
n13

Tauchnitz series,
62

taxes,
35
; and newspapers,
38
,
141
; on paper,
9
,
38
,
141
,
219
,
220
,
225
,
249
,
290
n31; on serials,
38

Taylor, Ann,
The
Present
of
a
Mother
to
a
Servant
,
164

Taylor, Harriet,
236

Taylor, Jeremy,
173
;
Holy
Living
and
Holy
Dying
,
172

teachers,
14
,
88
,
101
.
See
also
education; schools

tearjerkers,
19

temperance tracts,
206

Terdiman, Richard,
261

text,
71
; absent,
92
; age vs. price of,
246–47
; as allegory of own manufacture and distribution,
130
; and autodidacticism,
17
; and body and soul,
144
; and book,
2
,
4–5
,
10–11
,
20
,
25–26
,
32
,
40
,
78
,
129
; and children and adults,
91
,
100
; dematerialization of,
220
; diegetic and extradiegetic discussions of,
91–92
; differently priced editions of,
2
; and empathy across classes and genders,
17
; ephemerality of,
224
,
225
; and gender,
31
; and individual freedom,
17
; as invisible to husbands,
50
; and life cycle metaphors,
231
; life span of,
250
; as linguistic structure,
20
; material conditions for selling and buying of,
95
; and mind and body,
129
; and moderation,
10–11
; as object of piety,
10
; as poison,
15
; power to change identity of reader,
18
; preservation vs. destruction of,
225–26
; and protagonists’ daydreams,
77
; reproduction of,
225
; self-distributing,
124
; as shield from demands of women,
54–55
; socialization of,
134
; and social mobility,
17
; successive users of,
168–74
; thematic analysis of,
35
; transformation into speech,
106
; and women,
56
; worship of,
16

textuality,
16

textual value,
8–9

Thackeray, William Makepeace,
88
,
131
,
207
,
212
,
236
; “George de Barnwell,”
85
,
90
,
274
n14;
The
History
of
Henry
Esmond, Esq.
,
77
; and Mayhew,
251
;
The
Newcomes
,
50
,
66
,
178
;
Roundabout
Papers
,
76
,
178
; “Singular Letter from the Regent of Spain,”
204–6
;
Sketches
and
Travels
in
London
,
66
; and tract societies,
156
;
Vanity
Fair
,
25–26
,
45
,
46
,
55
,
76
,
77
,
200–201
,
205–6
,
208
,
267
n16,
273
n7,
285
n22;
The
Virginians
,
77
; “Why Can’t They Leave Us Alone in the Holidays?”,
276
n30;
Yellowplush
Papers
,
26

thematic analysis,
35

thematic materialism,
130

“Things It Is Better Not to Do,”
74

thing theory,
22
,
108

Thomas à Kempis,
Imitation
of
Christ
,
169
,
170
,
173–74
,
229
,
260
,
282
n29

Thoreau, Henry David,
23
,
37

Thornton, Henry,
151

Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth,
The
Wrongs
of
Woman
,
160

tradesmen,
6
,
113
,
236

“Traffic in Waste Paper,”
250

Treasury
of
Amadis
of
France, The
,
134

Trollope, Anthony,
7
,
36
,
50
,
51
,
71
,
73
,
78
,
81
,
85
,
131
,
158
,
207
,
215
,
260
;
An
Autobiography
,
18
,
29
,
59
,
86
,
106
;
Ayala’s Angel
,
86
; and book as wedge,
198
;
Can
You
Forgive
Her?
,
47
;
Castle
Richmond
,
29
,
206
;
The
Claverings
,
45
,
47
;
Cousin
Henry
,
70
;
The
Eustace
Diamonds
,
62
;
He
Knew
He
Was
Right
,
63
; “The Higher Education of Women,”
63
; and Mayhew,
221
;
Miss
Mackenzie
,
156
; “Novel-Reading,”
59
; “On English Prose Fiction,”
210
; Palliser series,
47
;
The
Prime
Minister
,
45
,
47
; reading as reductively other-directed in,
67
; and silent reading as interpersonal act,
67–68
;
The
Small
House
at
Allington
,
48–49
,
53
,
60
,
67
,
74
,
214
;
The
Struggles
of
Brown, Jones and Robinson
,
267
n19

Trollope, Frances,
150
,
209

Troubridge, Laura,
214

Trumpener, Katie,
Bardic
Nationalism
,
90
,
203

trunk linings,
220

trunk-makers,
230
,
233
,
236
,
239
,
252

Turkle, Sherry,
131

Twenty-third Annual Report of the Bombay Tract and Book Society
,
281
n19

“Two Bibles, The,”
38

Tyburn
Dick
,
69

Tyndale, William,
39

typewriters,
97

UNESCO,
40

upper middle class,
31
.
See
also
social class

Useful
and
the
Beautiful, The
,
193

Vickery, Amanda,
283
n7

Victoria,
9

Victoria
Magazine
,
140

Victorians,
4–5
,
10–11
,
16
,
36

Vincent, David:
Literacy
and
Popular
Culture
,
86
,
285
n20;
The
Rise
of
Mass
Literacy
,
56
,
141
,
252
,
271
n6

violence,
53
,
54
,
72–73
,
76
,
119
,
124
.
See
also
book throwing

Virginia, natives of,
40

Visitor, The
,
132

Viswanathan, Gauri,
157

voice,
121
,
122
; and bildungsroman,
128
; and it-narrative,
109
,
110
,
114
,
116
,
119
,
124
,
127
,
128

vulgarians,
11

vulgarity,
85

vulnerability,
118
,
122
,
125
,
127
,
128

Wallis, Alfred,
229

Ward, Mary Arnold
, David Grieve
,
278
n11

Ward
and
Lock’s Home Book
,
283
n8

warehouse,
1
,
144–45

Warner, Michael:
The
Letters
of
the
Republic
,
198–99
; “Uncritical Reading,”
21

wastepaper,
223–24
; and authors,
233
; Bibles as,
157
,
159
; and cheapness of new paper,
250
; economics of,
239
; and legible texts,
242
,
245
; market value of,
250
; and Mayhew,
222
,
223
,
231
; as memento mori,
233
; representation of,
252
; resale value of,
148
; reselling for,
6
; and tracts,
243–45
; trade in,
250
; trope of,
251
,
252
.
See
also
paper

“Waste Paper,”
243

Watkins, M. G., “The Library,”
2
,
123–24
,
133

Watson, Rowan,
195

Watt, Isaac,
Divine
Hymns
,
91

Watts, Newman,
The
Romance
of
Tract
Distribution
,
202
,
204
,
211
,
242
,
251
,
252

Waugh, Evelyn,
A
Handful
of
Dust
,
216

Weedon, Alexis,
250

Weekly
Visitor, The
,
132

Welsh, Alexander:
From
Copyright
to
Copperfield
,
95
;
George
Eliot
and
Blackmail
,
141
;
The
Hero
of
the
Waverley
Novels
,
278
n14

Wesleyan Conference Office,
209

Wesleyan
Magazine
,
244–45

West, William,
225

West Africa,
40

Westminster
Review
,
241

Wharton, Edith:
A
Backward
Glance
,
74
; “The Line of Least Resistance,”
271
n8

White, Borrett,
243

White, Gleeson,
Book-Song
,
123

White, Hayden,
265
n8

Wilberforce, William,
208–9

Wilde, Oscar,
3

Williams, Raymond,
The
Long
Revolution
,
218

Williams, William Proctor, and Craig S. Abbott,
134

Wills, W. H.,
142

Windscheffel, Ruth Clayton,
58
,
184

wives,
12
,
47
,
57
,
66
,
75
,
190
; as blocking husbands’ reading,
54
; and distraction of reading novels,
193
; and family prayers,
214
; and freedom from gaze of husbands,
61
; hiding by,
13
,
15
,
51
,
62
,
74
,
193
; and husbands,
15
; husbands as beating,
53
,
124
; husbands as preventing from reading,
55–56
; and lost happiness,
58–59
; and newspapers,
62
,
203
; and novels,
55–56
,
73
; refuge for men from,
55
; and romance with characters,
259
.
See
also
marriage; women

Wogan, Peter,
40

women,
10
,
75
,
241
; access to books,
91
; as bible distributors,
203
; as blocking men’s reading,
56
; book as buffer from men,
81
; and bookbindings,
2
; and children,
91
; and dress patterns,
54–55
,
56
; and empathy and imagination,
57
; and feminization of reading,
57
; and feminizing book and text,
56
; and food vs. books,
31
; and gendered division of labor,
100
; and Gissing,
258
; as higher variance to men,
56
; as hostile to books,
53–55
; and interiority, individuality, and authenticity,
51
; as librarians,
240
; and literacy,
56–57
; as matching book binding to dress and decor,
56
; men’s writing vs. speech of,
104
; middle-class,
41
; and mistress-maid relations,
247
; and morality,
56
; and newspapers and novels,
177
; and novels as distracting,
193
; as overinvested readers,
53
; and Oxbridge fellows,
55
; and passionate and disinterested reading,
56
; as philistines,
56
; and pie plates,
54–55
,
56
; and prize books,
163
; as readers,
218
; and reading aloud,
214
,
215
; seduced,
125
; selfhood of,
54
; and sex,
75
; and shorthand,
97
,
98
,
100
; survival of manuscripts through,
240
; text as shield from demands of,
54–55
; and textual transmission,
240
; use of valued paper by,
236
.
See
also
gender; marriage; mothers; women

Wood, Mrs. Henry,
The
Earl’s Heirs
,
86–87
,
88
,
193

Woodburn, James,
68

wood pulp,
9
,
236
,
248
,
249–50

Woolf, Leonard and Virginia, “Are Too Many Books Written and Published?”,
29

Woolf, Virginia: “How Should One Read a Book?”,
259
;
The
Voyage
Out
,
50

Worboise, Emma,
Thornycroft
Hall
,
87
,
284
n10

wordplay/puns,
23
,
24–26
,
28
,
35
,
92–93
,
237
.
See
also
jokes

Wordsworth, William,
107
,
224

working class,
17
,
41
,
93
,
201
,
218
; and Bell,
202
; and identification with literary characters,
167
; and literacy,
13
,
39–40
,
69
,
220
; and Mayhew,
238
; and middle-class self-criticism,
204
; and morality and circumstances of reading,
192
; and prize books,
162
; and religious tract-distributors,
14
; selection of books for,
164
; and selfhood,
199
; and tracts,
178–80
; and value of paper,
220
.
See
also
social class

Wrayburn, Eugene,
21

writing,
94
,
101
,
216
; in Dickens,
102
; jokes about learning,
94
; literal vs. literary,
95
; and manual practices,
34
; mechanics of,
23
; street in turn reproduces a line of,
94
.
See
also
literacy

Wynter, Andrew,
144