Readers and the history of reading in the west

[Matthew Cissell]

In an essay titled "Was there a Reading Revolution" Reinhard Wittman addresses the subject that has come up. The short answer, and with a number of limitatiins, is: yes, there was a great rise in reading in the time of Samuel Johnson. But in the following paragraph  he writes: "However... Around 1800, the public was largely anonymous, unhomogeneous and fragmented -  in short, modern." The essay that follows Wittman's is called "New Readers in the Nineteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers" by Martyn Lyons. Both essays come from "A History of Reading in the West" edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier.

ciao
mc otis
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