1. Selected Works on the History and Practice of Reading
2. Selected Works on Theories of Reading
Iordan Avramov and Michael Hunter, 'Reading by Proxy: The Case of Robert Boyle (1627–91)', Intellectual History Review 25, no. 1 (2015): 37–57.
Naomi S. Baron, Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in an Online World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
Mary Hammond, 'Book History in the Reading Experience', in Leslie Howsam, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 237–54.
Juliet John and Matthew Bradley, eds., Reading and the Victorians (Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2015).
James Procter and Bethan Benwell, Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Benjamin Wardhaugh, 'Consuming Mathematics: John Ward's Young Mathematician's Guide (1707) and Its Owners', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38, no. 1 (2015): 65–82.
Cameron Whitehead, 'Reading Beside the Lines: Marginalia, W. E. Gladstone, and the International History of the Bulgarian Horrors', International History Review 37 (2015), n.p. [advance access].
Vivienne Dunstan, 'Professionals, Their Private Libraries, and Wider Reading Habits in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland', Library & Information History 30, no. 2 (2014): 110-128.
Teresa Gerrard and Alexis Weedon, 'Working-Class Women’s Education in Huddersfield: A Case Study of the Female Educational Institute Library, 1856–1857', Information & Culture: A Journal of History 49, no. 2 (2014): 234-264.
Amanda Golden, 'Anne Sexton's Modern Library', in Richard W. Oram, ed., Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries: A Handbook (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), 65–76.
Christopher Hilliard, 'The Twopenny Library: The Book Trade, Working-Class Readers, and "Middlebrow" Novels in Britain, 1930–42', Twentieth Century British History 25, no. 2 (2014): 199-220.
Christopher Hilliard, 'Popular Reading and Social Investigation in Britain, 1850s–1940s', Historical Journal 57, no. 1 (2014): 247-271.
Edmund G. C. King, 'E. W. Hornung’s Unpublished “Diary,” the YMCA, and the Reading Soldier in the First World War', English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 57, no. 3 (2014): 361-387.
Edmund G. C. King, '"A Priceless Book to Have out Here": Soldiers Reading Shakespeare in the First World War', Shakespeare 10, no. 3 (2014): 230-44.
Amanda Laugesen, 'Journeys in Reading in Wartime: Some Australian Soldiers’ Reading Experiences in the First World War', Australian Humanities Review, no. 56 (May 2014): 55–68.
Susan K. Martin, 'Tracking Reading in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne Diaries', Australian Humanities Review, no. 56 (May 2014): 27–54.
Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez, ed., With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readerships Across the Centuries (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014).
Anna Poletti and Patrick Spedding, eds., 'Revealing the Reader', a special issue of Australian Humanities Review 56 (May 2014).
Austen Saunders, 'Lanhydrock's Autobiographical Instillation: Books, Reputation, and Habitat in Early Modern England', Seventeenth Century 29, no. 3 (2014): 223-39.
Rosalind Smith, '"Le pouvoir de fair dire": Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots' Book of Hours', in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 55–75.
Nicola Wilson, 'Boots Book-lovers' Library and the Novel: The Impact of a Circulating Library Market on Twentieth-Century Fiction', Information & Culture 49, no. 4 (2014): 427–49.
Juliette Atkinson, 'The London Library and the Circulation of French Fiction in the 1840s', Information & Culture: A Journal of History 48, no. 4, (2013): 391-418.
Tully Barnett, '“Reading Saved Me”: Writing Autobiographically About Transformative Reading Experiences in Childhood', Prose Studies 35, no. 1 (2013): 84–96.
Susan David Bernstein, Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
Patrick Buckridge, 'The Fate of an “Ambitious School-Marm”: Amy Cruse and the History of Reading', Book History 16 (2013): 272–293.
Paddy Bullard, 'What Swift Did in Libraries', in Paddy Bullard and James McLaverty, eds. Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 65–84.
Christopher Canon, 'The Art of Rereading', ELH 80, no. 2 (2013): 401-425.
Helen Chambers, '“A Sort of Still Uproar“: Conrad’s Reading of Periodicals', Conrad First (2013).
Patricia Crain, 'Postures and Places: The Child Reader in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Print', ELH 80, no. 2 (2013): 343-372.
S. F. Davies, 'The Reception of Reginald Scot’s Discovery of Witchcraft: Witchcraft, Magic, and Radical Religion', Journal of the History of Ideas 74, no. 3 (2013): 381–401.
Robert Dixon and Brigid Rooney, eds., Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature? (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013).
Paul Eggert, Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013).
William M. Hamlin, Montaigne's English Journey: Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Andy Kesson and Emma Smith, eds. The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013).
Edmund G. C. King, '"Books Are More to Me Than Food": British Prisoners of War as Readers, 1914–1918', Book History 16 (2013): 247–71.
Marielle Macé, ‘Ways of Reading, Modes of Being’, trans. Marlon Jones, New Literary History 44, no. 2 (2013): 213-29.
Ausra Navickiene, Ilkka Mäkinen, Magnus Torstensson, Martin Dyrbye and Tiiu Reimo, eds., Good Book, Good Library, Good Reading: Studies in the History of the Book, Libraries and Reading from the Network HIBOLIRE and Its Friends (Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2013).
Corinne Sandwith, ‘“Yours for Socialism”: Communist Cultural Discourse in Early Apartheid South Africa’, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 14 (5 August 2013).
Anne Schwan, ‘"Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper": Katie Gliddon's Prison Diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Suffragettes at Holloway', Women's History Review 22, no. 1 (2013): 148-167.
Beth Barton Schweiger, ‘The Literate South: Reading before Emancipation’, Journal of the Civil War Era 3, no. 3 (2013): 331–59.
Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Carolyn Steedman, An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Mark Towsey, '"I can’t resist sending you the book": Private Libraries, Elite Women, and Shared Reading Practices in Georgian Britain', Library & Information History 29, no. 3 (2013): 210-22.
Dirk van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett's Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Diana Weaver, 'Letters to Lucy Johnston: Addressing the Need for Literature on the Kansas Prairies', Information & Culture: A Journal of History 48, no. 1 (2013): 50-67.
Stephen Jarrod Bernard, 'Edward Bysshe and The Art of English Poetry: Reading Writing in the Eighteenth Century', Eighteenth-Century Studies 46, no. 1 (2012): 113–29.
Clare Bradford and Kerry Mallan, eds., 'Children’s Literature Collections and Archives', special issue of Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 22, no. 1 (2012).
Rosalind Crone, '‘The great “Reading” experiment: an examination of the role of education in the nineteenth-century gaol’, Crime, Histoire et Sociétés 16, no. 1 (2012), pp. 47-74.
Rosalind Crone and Katie Halsey, 'On Collecting, Cataloguing and Collating the Evidence of Reading: The "RED Movement" and Its Implications for Digital Scholarship', in Toni Weller, ed., History in the Digital Age (London: Routledge, 2012).
Rosalind Crone, Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012).
Heiko Damm, Michael Thimann, and Claus Zittel, eds., The Artist as Reader: On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
Archie L. Dick, The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).
Paul Dobraszczyk, 'City Reading: The Design and Use of Nineteenth-Century London Guidebooks', Journal of Design History 25, no. 2 (2012): 123–44.
Jonathan L. Earle, 'Reading Revolution in Late Colonial Buganda', Journal of Eastern African Studies 6, no. 3 (2012): 507–26.
Paul Eggert, 'Brought to Book: Bibliography, Book History and the Study of Literature', Library, 7th ser., 13, no. 1 (2012): 3–32.
Simon R. Frost, The Business of the Novel: Economics, Aesthetics and the Case of Middlemarch (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012).
Debra Gettelman, 'The Psychology of Reading and the Victorian Novel', Literature Compass 9, no. 2 (2012): 199–212.
Perrine Gilkison and Sydney J. Shep, 'Mansfield as "Man Alone"? Katherine Mansfield's Wartime Reading Experiences', Journal of New Zealand Studies, n.s. 13 (2012): 105–14.
Katie Halsey, Jane Austen and Her Readers, 1786–1945 (London: Anthem Press, 2012).
Katie Halsey, 'Working-Class Readers in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction to the "Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945" (RED)', in R. Siegert, ed., Volksbildung durch Lesestoffe im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Voraussetzungen, Medien, Topographie (Educating the People through Reading Material in the Eighteenth and 19th Centuries: Principles, Media, Topography) (Bremen: Edition Lumiere, 2012), 49-66.
Uriel Heyd, Reading Newspapers: Press and Public in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012).
Konrad Hirschler, The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012).
R. Honings and A. Lubbers, 'Dutch Institutional Reading Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century: An Exploration and a Comparison', Journal of Dutch Literature 3, no. 1 (2012): 21-46.
Freyja Cox Jensen, Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
Robin Jarvis, Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel: Expeditions and Tours in North America, 1760–1840 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).
N. Akkerman, E. Jorink, and P. Langman, and A. Maas, ed., Newton and the Netherlands: How Newton's Ideas Entered the Continent (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012).
Jon Klancher, 'Configuring Romanticism and Print History: A Retrospect', European Romantic Review 23, no. 3 (2012): 373–79.
Amanda Laugesen, 'Boredom Is the Enemy': The Intellectual and Imaginative Worlds of Australian Soldiers in the Great War and Beyond (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).
Seth Lerer, 'Devotion and Defacement: Reading Children's Marginalia', Representations, no. 118 (Spring 2012): 126–153.
Seth Lerer, ‘Literary Prayer and Personal Possession in a Newly Discovered Tudor Book of Hours’, Studies in Philology 109, no. 4 (2012): 409–28.
Kate Loveman, 'Samuel Pepys and "Discourses touching Religion" under James II', English Historical Review 127, no. 524 (2012): 46–82.
Eli McLaren, ed., ‘New Studies in the History of Reading’, special issue of Mémoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture 3, no. 2 (2012).
Michael Millner, Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2012).
Kate Narveson, Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).
Ada Palmer, 'Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance', Journal of the History of Ideas 73, no. 3 (2012): 395–416.
Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012).
Jennifer Richards, 'Useful Books: Reading Vernacular Regimens in Sixteenth-Century England', Journal of the History of Ideas 73, no. 2 (2012): 247–71.
Helen Rogers, '"Oh, what beautiful books!" Captivated Reading in an Early Victorian Prison', Victorian Studies 55, no. 1 (2012): 57-84.
Elizabeth Salter, Popular Reading in English, c. 1400–1600 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012).
Elizabeth Salter, 'The Uses of English in Printed Religious Texts c. 1497–1547: Further Evidence for the Process and Experience of Reformation in England', English 61, no. 232 (2012): 1–22.
Katherine West Scheil, She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).
A. A. Seyed-Gorab, ed., The Great Umar Khayyam: A Global Reception of the Rubaiyat (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012).
Jane Shaw, 'A Modern Millenarian Prophet's Bible', in Zoë Bennett and David B. Gowler, eds., Radical Christian Voices and Practice: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 165–78.
Petra Spies, 'A Creative Machine: The Media History of Theodor Fontane's Library Network and Reading Practices', Germanic Review 87, no. 1 (2012): 72–90.
Andrew Stauffer, 'Poetry, Romanticism, and the Practice of Nineteenth-Century Books', Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34, no. 5 (2012): 411–26.
Kathryn L. Steele, 'Hester Mulso Chapone and the Problem of the Individual Reader', The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 53, no. 4 (2012): 473–91.
Patricia Sullivan, 'After the Great War: Utility, Humanities, and Tracings From a Technical Writing Class in the 1920s', Journal of Business and Technical Communication 26, no. 2 (2012): 202–28.
Kathleen Tonry, 'Reading History in Caxton's Polychronicon', Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111, no. 2 (2012): 169–198.
Mark Towsey, 'Imprisoned Reading: French Prisoners of War at the Selkirk Subscription Library, 1811–1814', in Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft, and Hannah Smith, eds., Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012), 241–61.
Deborah Wynne, ‘Readers and Reading Practices’, in John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor, eds., The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 22–36.
Eve Taylor Bannet, Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810: Migrant Fictions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Andrew Cambers, Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580–1720 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Rosalind Crone and Shafquat Towheed, eds., The History of Reading, Volume 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Gillian Dow, ed., Women Readers in Europe: Readers, Writers, Salonnières, 1750–1900, special issue of Women's Writing 18, no. 1 (2011).
Talya Fishman, Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
M. O. Grenby, The Child Reader, 1700-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Katie Halsey and W. R. Owens, eds., The History of Reading, Volume 2: Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Barbara Hochman, Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).
Kate Macdonald, ed., The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr. Miniver Read (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
John McCormick, ed., George Santayana's Marginalia: A Critical Selection, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, September 2011).
Andrew O'Malley, ‘Poaching on Crusoe's Island: Popular Reading and Chapbook Editions of Robinson Crusoe’, Eighteenth-Century Life 35, no. 2 (2011): 18–38.
Beth Palmer and Adelene Buckland, eds., A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850–1900 (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011).
Adam Reed, Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading: A Study of the Henry Williamson Society (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011; Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
DeNel Rehberg Sedo, ed., Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Miranda Remnek, ed., The Space of the Book: Print Culture in the Russian Social Imagination (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).
Fred Schurink, ‘Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney’s Arcadia’, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 16 (2011), 170-96.
Elizabeth Spiller, Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Andrew Stauffer, ‘Hemans by the Book’, European Romantic Review 22, no. 3 (2011): 373–80.
Shafquat Towheed, 'Locating the reader, or what do we do with the man in the hat? Methodological perspectives and evidence from the United Kingdom Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (UK RED)', Primerjalna knizevnost (Comparative Literature) 34, no. 2 (2011): 173–86.
Shafquat Towheed and W. R. Owens, eds., The History of Reading, Volume 1: International Perspectives, c. 1500-1990 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Angus Vine, 'Commercial Commonplacing: Francis Bacon, the Waste-Book, and the Ledger’, English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 16 (2011), 197–218.
Arnoud S. Q. Visser, Reading Augustine in the Reformation: The Flexibility of Intellectual Authority in Europe, 1500-1620 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Rachel Ablow, ed., The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010).
Keith Adkins, 'Convict Station Probation Libraries in Colonial Tasmania', Script & Print 34, no. 2 (2010): 87–92.
Keith Adkins, 'The Ferrar Diaries: William Moore Ferrar and His Books', Script & Print 34, no. 4 (2010): 197–215.
David Allan, Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Daniel Allington, ‘On the Use of Anecdotal Evidence in Reception Study and the History of Reading’, in Bonnie Gunzenhauser (ed.), Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010), 11–28. [A copy can be requested from the author here via ORO.]
Tony Ballantyne, 'Placing Literary Culture: Books and Civic Culture in Milton', Journal of New Zealand Literature 28, no. 2 (2010): 82–104.
Reid Barbour, ‘Dean Wren's Religio Medici: Reading in Civil War England’, Huntington Library Quarterly 73, no. 2 (2010): 263–72.
Ann M. Blair, ‘The Rise of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe’, Intellectual History Review 20, no. 3 (2010): 303–16.
Matthew Bradley, ‘The Reading Experience Database’, Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 1 (2010): 151–53.
Julie Crawford, ‘Reconsidering Early Modern Women's Reading, or, How Margaret Hoby Read Her de Mornay’, Huntington Library Quarterly 73, no. 2 (2010): 193–223.
Rosalind Crone, ‘Reappraising Victorian Literacy through Prison Records’, Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 1 (2010): 3–37.
Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey and Shafquat Towheed, ‘Examining the Evidence of Reading: Three Examples from the Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945’, in Bonnie Gunzenhauser (ed.), Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010), 29–46.
Brian Cummings, ‘Autobiography and the History of Reading’, in Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds., Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 635-57.
Gillian Dow and Katie Halsey, ‘Jane Austen’s Reading: The Chawton Years’, Persuasions Online 30, no. 2 (Spring 2010).
Catherine Feely, ‘From Dialectics to Dancing: Reading, Writing and the Experience of Everyday Life in the Diaries of Frank P. Forster’, History Workshop Journal, no. 69 (2010): 90–110.
Anders Ingram, ‘Readers and responses to George Sandys' A Relation of a Iourney begun An: Dom: 1610 (1615): Early English Books Online (EEBO) and the History of Reading’, European Review of History 17, no. 2 (2010): 287–301.
Robert James, Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930–39: A Round of Cheap Diversions? (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).
W. Michael Johnstone, ‘Toward a Book History of William Wordsworth's 1850 Prelude’, Textual Cultures 5, no. 2 (2010): 63-91.
Susann Liebich, 'Connected Readers: Reading Networks and Community in Early Twentieth-Century New Zealand', Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture 2, no. 1 (2010).
Alisa Miller, ‘Rupert Brooke and the Growth of Commercial Patriotism in Great Britain, 1914–1918’, Twentieth-Century British History 21, no. 2 (2010): 141–62.
Miles Ogborn and Charles W. J. Withers, eds., Geographies of the Book (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010).
Carl Ostrowksi, ‘"The Choice of Books": Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the Ideology of Reading, and Literary Collections at the Library of Congress in the 1870s’, Libraries & the Cultural Record 45, no. 1 (2010): 70–84.
Catherine M. Parisian, The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010).
Christine Pawley, Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010).
Barbara Sicherman, Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Jane Stafford, '"No cloud to hide their dear resplendencies": The Uses of Poetry in 1840s New Zealand', Journal of New Zealand Literature 28, no. 2 (2010): 12-34.
Morag Styles, ‘Learning through Literature: The Case of The Arabian Nights’, Oxford Review of Education 36, no. 2 (2010): 157–69.
Megan Sweeney, Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Araceli Tinajero, El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010).
Mark Towsey, ‘"Philosophically playing the Devil’: Recovering Readers’ Responses to David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment', Historical Research 83, no. 220 (2010): 301–20.
Shafquat Towheed, ‘Reading in the Digital Archive’, Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 1 (2010): 139–143.
Shafquat Towheed, Rosalind Crone, Katherine Halsey, eds., The History of Reading (London: Routledge, 2010).
Lydia Wevers, Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World (Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, 2010).
Susan E. Whyman, The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Stephen Colclough, 'Readers: Books and Biography', in Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds., A Companion to the History of the Book (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 50–62.
Gillian Dow, ‘Jane Austen's Reading and the 18th-century Woman Writer’, Sensibilities 39 (2009): 69-88.
Mike Esbester, ‘Nineteenth-Century Timetables and the History of Reading’, Book History 12 (2009): 156–85.
Katie Halsey, ‘“Folk stylistics” and the history of reading: A discussion of method’, Language and Literature 18, no. 3 (2009): 231–46.
Christopher Hilliard, ‘The Provincial Press and the Imperial Traffic in Fiction, 1870s–1930s’, Journal of British Studies 48, no. 3 (2009): 653–673.
H. J. Jackson, ‘Coleridge as Reader: Marginalia’, in Frederick Burwick, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 271–87.
William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker, eds., Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Jeffrey Todd Knight, ‘“Furnished for Action”: Renaissance Books as Furniture’, Book History 12 (2009): 37–73.
Kathleen McDowell, ‘Toward a History of Children as Readers, 1890–1930’, Book History 12 (2009): 240–65.
Helen Rogers, 'The Way to Jerusalem: Reading, Writing and Reform in an Early Victorian Gaol', Past & Present 205, no. 1 (2009): 71-104.
Shafquat Towheed, ‘Reading History and Nation: Robert Louis Stevenson's Reading of William Forbes-Mitchell's Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 31, no. 1 (2009): 3–17.
Lawrence Warner, ‘The Gentleman's Piers Plowman: John Mitford and his annotated copy of the 1550 edition of William Langland’s great poem’, La Trobe Journal, no. 84 (2009): 100-08, 124–26.
Alex Watson, ‘Byron's Marginalia to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’, Byron Journal 37, no. 2 (2009): 131–139
David Ainsworth, Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England (London: Routledge, 2008).
David Allan, A Nation of Readers: The lending library in Georgian England (London: British Library, 2008).
Thomas E. Burman, Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Janice Cavell, Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818–1860 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Stefan Collini, Common Reading: Critics, historians, publics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Archie L. Dick, ‘“Blood from Stones”: Censorship and the Reading Practices of South African Political Prisoners, 1960–1990’, Library History 24, no. 1 (2008): 1–22.
Paul Dobraszczyk, ‘Useful reading? Designing information for London's Victorian cab passengers’, Journal of Design History 21 (2008).
Mats Dolatkhah, ‘The Rules of Reading: Examples of Reading and Library Use in Early Twentieth-Century Swedish Families’, Library History 24, no. 3 (2008): 220–29.
Robert Fraser and Mary Hammond, eds., Books Without Borders: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly, eds., Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Katie Halsey, ‘Reading the Evidence of Reading’, Popular Narrative Media 2 (2008), 123-137.
Antonina Harbus, ‘A Renaissance Reader's English Annotations to Thynne's 1532 Edition of Chaucer's Works’, Review of English Studies 59, no. 240 (2008): 342–355.
Kevin J. Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Martyn Lyons, Reading culture and writing practices in nineteenth-century France (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Richard Meek, Jane Rickard, and Richard Wilson, eds., Shakespeare’s Books: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008).
Nickianne Moody, 'Something to Read: The Boots Booklovers Library and the Great Fiction Question', Popular Narrative Media 1, no. 2 (2008): 197–209.
Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare for the People: Working Class Readers, 1800–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Kate Narveson, ‘Traces of Reading Practice in Thomas Bentley's Monument of Matrons’, ANQ: American Notes and Queries 21, no. 2 (2008): 11-18.
David Pearson, Books as History: The influence of books beyond their texts (London: British Library, 2008).
Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler’s Private Library: The books that shaped his life (London: Bodley Head, 2008).
Fred Schurink, ‘“Like a Hand in the Margine of a Booke”: William Blount's Marginalia and the Politics of Sidney's Arcadia’, Review of English Studies 59, no. 238 (2008): 1–24.
William H. Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Brian Stock, ‘Toward Interpretive Pluralism: Literary History and the History of Reading’, New Literary History 39, no. 3 (2008): 389–413.
Gabrielle Watling and Sara E. Quay, eds., Cultural History of Reading (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008).
Lydia Wevers, ‘The Constant Reader’: The Intellectual Life of a Wairarapa Sheep Farm’, lecture on the Brancepeth Station Library, New Zealand, an intact late-Victorian lending library for farm employees, Victoria University of Wellington, 20 May 2008.
Margaret Willes, Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Ruth Clayton Windscheffel, Reading Gladstone (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Thomas Wright, Oscar's Books (London: Chatto & Windus, 2008).
Rachel Ablow, The Marriage of Minds: Reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007).
Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter, eds., Institutions of Reading: The social life of libraries in the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).
Jessica Brantley, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Matthew P. Brown, The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
Stephen Colclough, Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Katharine A. Craik, Reading Sensations in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Nicholas Dames, The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Robert Darnton, ‘“What Is the History of Books?” Revisited’, Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 3 (2007): 495–508.
Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash, and Ian Willison, eds., Literary Cultures and the Material Book (London: British Library, 2007).
Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds., A Companion to the History of the Book (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).
D. H. Green, Women Readers in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Sean Gurd, ‘Cicero and Editorial Revision’, Classical Antiquity 26, no. 1 (2007): 49–80.
Katie Halsey, ‘“Critics as a Race are Donkeys”: Margaret Oliphant, Critic or Common Reader?’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 2 (2007): 42–68.
Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed, eds., Publishing in the First World War: Essays in book history (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Elspeth Jajdelska, Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
Elspeth Jajdelska, ‘Pepys in the History of Reading’, Historical Journal 50, no. 3 (2007): 549–569.
Craig Kallendorf, The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
Wallace Kirsop, ed., The Commonwealth of Books: Essays and studies in honour of Ian Willison(New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007).
Karlijn Navest, ‘Marginalia as Evidence: The Unidentified Hands in Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762)’, Historiographia Linguistica 34, no. 1 (2007): 1–18.
Paradise: New Worlds of Books and Readers. Special issue of Script and Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 29, nos. 1-4 (2007).
James Raven, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade, 1450-1850 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
James Simpson, Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).
Felicity Stimpson, ‘“I have spent my morning reading Greek”: The marginalia of Sir George Otto Trevelyan’, Library History 23, no. 3, (2007): 239–250.
Mark Towsey, ‘“An Infant Son to Truth Engage”: Virtue, Responsibility and Self-Improvement in the Reading of Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock, 1747-1815’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 2 (2007): 69–92.
Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading and English Literature, 1430-1530 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
N. G. Wilson, ‘Scholiasts and Commentators’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 47, no. 1 (2007): 39–70.
Rosemary Ashton, 142 Strand—A Radical Address in Victorian London (London: Chatto & Windus, 2006).
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, 3 vols, Elizabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber, Giles Mandelbrote, Keith Hanley, Alistair Black, and Peter Hoare, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Ellen Miller Casey, ‘“Highly Flavoured Dishes” and “Highly Seasoned Garbage”: Sensation in The Athenaeum’, in Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre, Kimberley Harrison and Richard Fantina, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006), 3–14.
T. P. Connor, 'Malignant Reading: John Squier's Newgate Prison Library, 1642–46', The Library 7, no. 2 (2006): 154-84.
Jan Fergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Mary Hammond, Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Ann R. Hawkins, Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Book History (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006).
Christopher Hilliard, To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Leslie Howsam, Old Books and New Histories: An orientation to studies in book and print culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).
Femke Molekamp, ‘Using a Collection to Discover Reading Practices: The British Library Geneva Bibles and a History of their Early Modern Readers’, Electronic British Library Journal (2006): article 10.
Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2006).
Paul Tankard, ‘Reading Lists’, Prose Studies 28, no. 3 (2006): 337–60.
P. J. Waller, Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary life in Britain, 1870-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006).
Stephen B. Dobranski, Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Raymond Gillespie, Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005; in paperback 2012).
Heidi Brayman Hackel, Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender and Literacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
H. J. Jackson, Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).
Tom Keymer and Peter Sabor, ‘Pamela’ in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading, Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2005).
Andrew Murphy, ‘Shakespeare Among the Workers’, Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005): 107–17.
Gideon Reuveni, Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany Before 1933 (Oxford: Bergahn, 2005).
Edith Snook, Women, Reading and the Cultural Politics of Early-Modern England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
Jane Stafford, 'Reading in the Heart of the Bush', Script & Print 29, nos. 1–4 (2005): 290–7.
Kathryn Sutherland, Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Books and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries, edited by Paul Eggert and Elizabeth Webby. Special issue of The Bibliographical Society of New Zealand Bulletin 28, nos. 1 & 2, (2004).
Candy Gunther Brown, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing and Reading in America 1789-1880 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Ian Jackson, 'Approaches to the History of Readers and Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain', Historical Journal 47, no. 4 (2004): 1041-1054.
Kevin Molloy, ‘Literature in the Irish Diaspora: The New Zealand Case, 1873–1918’, Journal of New Zealand Studies, nos 2–3 (2004): 87–128.
David Paul Nord, Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Leah Price, ‘Reading: The State of the Discipline’, Book History 7 (2004): 303–320.
William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Steven Roger Fischer, A History of Reading (London: Reaktion Books, 2003).
David McKitterick, Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Priya Joshi, In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 4 (1557-1695), ed. John Barnard & D. F. McKenzie, assisted by Maureen Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
James Raven, London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002).
Francis Spufford, The Child that Books Built: A Memoir of Childhood and Reading (London: Faber & Faber, 2002).
H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
William W. E. Slights, Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
Emily B. Todd, 'Antebellum Libraries in Richmond and New Orleans and the Search for the Practices and Preferences of "Real" Readers', American Studies 42, no. 3 (2001): 195-209.
Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture and Commerce, Bill Bell, Jonquil Bevan, and Philip Bennet, eds. (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2000). [Includes Bill Bell, ‘Cultural Baggage: The Scottish Emigrant Reader in the Nineteenth Century’.]
Robert S. Miola, Shakespeare's Reading (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade, ed. Peter Isaac and Barry McKay (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2001) [Includes Maureen Bell, 'Reading in Seventeenth-Century Derbyshire: the Wheatcrofts and their Books'].
James Secord, Victorian Sensation: The extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).
D. R. Woolf, Reading History in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3 (1400-1557), ed. Lotte Hellinga & J. B. Trapp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Clarissa and her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, ed. Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland (New York: AMS Press, 1999).
The Experience of Reading: Irish Historical Perspectives, ed. Bernadette Cunningham & Maire Kennedy (Social History Society of Ireland, 1999).
A History of Reading in the West, ed. Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, (Oxford: Polity Press, 1999).
Joost Kloek, 'Reconsidering the Reading Revolution: The Thesis of the "Reading Revolution" and a Dutch Bookseller's Clientele around 1800', Poetics 26, nos. 5–6, (1999): 289–307.
Jacqueline Pearson, Women’s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
A Radical's Books: the Library Catalogue of Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1623-90, ed. Michael Hunter, Giles Mandelbrote et. al. (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999).
Brian Richardson, Printing, Writers, and Readers in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Patrick Brantlinger, The Reading Lesson: The threat of mass literacy in nineteenth-century British fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).
Mike Denning, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-class Culture in America (London: Verso, 1998).
Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: print and knowledge in the making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Priya Joshi, 'Culture and Consumption: Fiction, the Reading Public, and the British Novel in Colonial India', Book History 1 (1998): 196-220.
Anthony Grafton, Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
Grafton, Anthony. ‘Is the History of Reading a Marginal Enterprise?: Guillaume Budé and His Books’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 91, no. 2 (1997): 139–57.
David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: essays in the history of the book (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).
The Practice and Representation of Reading, ed. James Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
David Paul Nord, 'Reading the Newspaper: Strategies and Politics of Reader Response, Chicago, 1912–1917', Journal of Communication 45, no. 3 (1995): 66–94.
Robert L. Patten and John O. Jordan, eds, Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-century publishing and reading practices (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
John Sutherland, Victorian Fiction: Writers, publishers, readers (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995).
William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995).
Roger Chartier, The Order of Books: Readers, authors, and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994).
Claudia N. Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994).
Paul Saenger, Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994).
The Ethnography of reading, ed. Jonathan Boyarin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
Tom Keymer, Richardson’s Clarissa and the Eighteenth Century Reader (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Jonathan Rose, ‘Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences’, Journal of the History of Ideas 53, no. 1 (1992): 47–70.
Annotation and its Texts, ed. Stephen A. Barney (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Property of a Gentleman: the formation, organisation and dispersal of the private library 1620-1920, Robin Myers and Michael Harris, eds. (Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1991).
Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in cultural history (London: Faber & Faber, 1990).
David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture: England, 1750-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
The Culture of Print: power and the uses of print in early modern Europe, ed. Alain Boureau and Roger Chartier, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989).
William J. Gilmore, Reading becomes a necessity of life: material and cultural life in rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989).
Jon Klancher, The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
Robert Darnton, ‘First Steps towards a History of Reading’, Australian Journal of French Studies 23 (1986), 5-30. [Republished in Darnton, Kiss of the Lamourette, 154–87.]
Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts, ed. Elizabeth A. Flynn & Patrocinio P. Schweickart (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).
Robert Darnton, ‘What is the history of books?’, Daedalus 3, no. 3 (1982): 62–83.
Philip Collins, Reading Aloud: A Victorian métier (Lincoln: Tennyson Research Centre, 1972).
William A. Belson, Studies in Readership (London: Business Publications, 1962).
Richard Altick, The English Common Reader: A social history of the mass reading public (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).
Bonnie Mak, How the Page Matters (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).
Sukanta Chaudhuri, The Metaphysics of Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Bonnie Gunzenhauser, ed., Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010).
Karin Littau, Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies and Bibliomania (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006).
The Future of the Page, Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).
Sara Mills (ed.) Gendering the Reader (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994).
Shoshana Felman, What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
Wolfgang Iser, Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).
Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics [1963], trans. Caryl Emerson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984).
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven F. Rendal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).
Stanley Fish, Is there a Text in this Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980).
Susan R. Suleiman & Inge Crosman, The reader in the text: Essays on audience and interpretation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980).
Umberto Eco, The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (London: Hutchinson, 1979).
Judith Fetterley, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978).
Wolfgang Iser The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978).
Wolfgang Iser, The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974).
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text [1973] trans. Richard Miller (New York: Hill & Wang, 1975).
Stanley Fish, Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost [1967] (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).
Edmund G. C. King, '"Books Are More to Me Than Food": British Prisoners of War as Readers, 1914–18', Book History 16 (2013): 247–71.
Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Robert L. Nelson, German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
John B. Hench, Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).
Alisa Miller, ‘Rupert Brooke and the Growth of Commercial Patriotism in Great Britain, 1914–1918’ Twentieth-Century British History 21, no. 2 (2010): 141–62.
Robert L. Nelson, ‘Soldier Newspapers: A Useful Source in the Social and Cultural History of the First World War and Beyond’, War in History 17, no. 2 (2010): 167–91.
Elizabeth Vandiver, Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Janice Cavell, ‘In the Margins: Regimental History and a Veteran's Narrative of the First World War’, Book History 11 (2008): 199–219.
Caroline Daniels, ‘“The Feminine Touch Has Not Been Wanting”: Women Librarians at Camp Zachary Taylor, 1917-1919’, Libraries & the Cultural Record 43, no. 3 (2008): 287–307.
Amanda Laugesen, ‘Finding “Another Great World”: Australian Soldiers and Wartime Libraries’, Library Quarterly 76, no. 4 (2006): 420–37.
Martyn Lyons, ‘French Soldiers and Their Correspondence: Towards a History of Writing Practices in the First World War’, French History 17, no. 1 (2003): 79-95.
David Shavit, ‘"The Greatest Morale Factor Next to the Red Army": Books and Libraries in American and British Prisoners of War Camps in Germany during World War II’, Libraries & Culture 34, no. 2 (1999): 113-134.
David Finkelstein, 'Literature, Propaganda and the First World War: The Case of Blackwood's Magazine', in Bridget Bennett and Jeremy Treglown, eds., Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Nick Hiley, '“You can't believe a word you read”: Newspaper-reading in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914—1918', Media History 2, nos. 1–2 (1994): 89–102.
A. R. Dearlove, ‘Enforced Leisure: Activities of Officer Prisoners of War’, British Medical Journal, no. 4394 (24 March 1945): 406–409.
[Interior damage to New Zealand YMCA hut hit by shellfire, 1917. Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference No. 1/2-012766-G]