Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World
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- Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
- Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The ABCs of Reading
- Chapter 2 Arts of Reading
- Chapter 3 Polite Reading
- Chapter 4 Ordinary Discontinuous Reading
- Chapter 5 Reading Secret Writing
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
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Book contents
- Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
- Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The ABCs of Reading
- Chapter 2 Arts of Reading
- Chapter 3 Polite Reading
- Chapter 4 Ordinary Discontinuous Reading
- Chapter 5 Reading Secret Writing
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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