...132 Merlin Bo wen: The Long Encounter: Self and Experience in the Writings of Herman Melville P 140 Richard D. Altick: The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 P 148 Ernest Hatch Will,ins: Life of Petrarch P 158 Victor Brombert: The Intellectual Hero: Studies...

...from England, p. 342. 16. John O. Hayden, The Romantic Reviewers 1802-1824 (Chicago, 1968), p. 39. 17. Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader. A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1967), p. 392. 18. Edinburgh Review, 20 (Nov. 1812), 277-303 (p. 280). 19. Samuel Taylor...

...especially 63-120; also Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992); Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900 (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1957), 30-66; Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the...

...book will appear in the text. For the standard history of Victorian serial publication, see Richard Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957). See also Robert Patten, Literature in the Marketplace:...

...literacy and print culture in early modern England, some of the most consulted sources are Richard Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957); Lawrence Stone, "Literacy and Education in England, 16401900,"...

...the library staff of New College, Edinburgh for their cheerful and unwearying 1. See, for example, RD Altick, The English common reader: a social history of the mass reading public, 1800-1900, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957, p. 99; DW Bebbington, Evangelicalism in modem Britain:...

...cannot know what influence a given book has unless we can somehow enter the minds of its readers" (in Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900, 2d ed. [Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998], xii). Confession albums are published books specifically...

...thesis, Oxford Univ., 1974), p. 252. 108. This is taken from Himmelfarb, Idea of Poverty, p. 31. 109. Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1957), p. 5. See also MG Jones, The Charity School Movement: A Study...

...between a volume of essays and a month's supply of tea and sugar for his family of six (2s. 6d.)," Richard D. Altick: The English Common Reader. A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 1957, 5 If. Roy M. Wiles, on the other hand, remarks that...

...Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984); Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957); Vicinius, The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth-Century...