Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in English at The Open University, where he is also Project Supervisor for The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930 (2007), of New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 (2007).Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University, where she is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). She has published widely on popular culture, crime and literacy in the nineteenth-century, and is co-editor of New Perspectives in British Cultural History (2007).Katie Halsey is lecturer at the University of Stirling. She has published several articles on nineteenth-century literary culture, is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the subject of conversation in the long eighteenth century, and writing a monograph about Jane Austen’s readers.

'an extremely intelligent guide to the history of reading...The editors accurately map the new terrain of reading history, setting a variety of global case studies within the theoretical approaches so far developed. Their lively prose and judicious selections will attract students and scholars alike to the field.'- Shef Rogers, Editor of 'Script and Print''This collection will appeal to students and scholars of history, literature, and cultural studies and is essential for specialists in the history of reading.' - Bill Bell, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book, The University of Edinburgh'...perfectly designed for university teachers and their students.' - Library & Information History

• Section 1: Defining the Field: What is the History of Reading? Section 2: Theorising the Reader Section 3: Researching and Using Literacy Section 4: Reading the Masses Section 5: Reading Communities Section 6: Individual Readers Section 7: New Directions and Methods in the History of Reading

Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in English at The Open University, where he is also Project Supervisor for The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930 (2007), of New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 (2007).Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University, where she is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). She has published widely on popular culture, crime and literacy in the nineteenth-century, and is co-editor of New Perspectives in British Cultural History (2007).Katie Halsey is lecturer at the University of Stirling. She has published several articles on nineteenth-century literary culture, is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the subject of conversation in the long eighteenth century, and writing a monograph about Jane Austen’s readers.

'an extremely intelligent guide to the history of reading...The editors accurately map the new terrain of reading history, setting a variety of global case studies within the theoretical approaches so far developed. Their lively prose and judicious selections will attract students and scholars alike to the field.'- Shef Rogers, Editor of 'Script and Print''This collection will appeal to students and scholars of history, literature, and cultural studies and is essential for specialists in the history of reading.' - Bill Bell, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book, The University of Edinburgh'...perfectly designed for university teachers and their students.' - Library & Information History

• Section 1: Defining the Field: What is the History of Reading? Section 2: Theorising the Reader Section 3: Researching and Using Literacy Section 4: Reading the Masses Section 5: Reading Communities Section 6: Individual Readers Section 7: New Directions and Methods in the History of Reading

Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in English at The Open University, where he is also Project Supervisor for The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930 (2007), of New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 (2007).Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University, where she is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). She has published widely on popular culture, crime and literacy in the nineteenth-century, and is co-editor of New Perspectives in British Cultural History (2007).Katie Halsey is lecturer at the University of Stirling. She has published several articles on nineteenth-century literary culture, is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the subject of conversation in the long eighteenth century, and writing a monograph about Jane Austen’s readers.

'an extremely intelligent guide to the history of reading...The editors accurately map the new terrain of reading history, setting a variety of global case studies within the theoretical approaches so far developed. Their lively prose and judicious selections will attract students and scholars alike to the field.'- Shef Rogers, Editor of 'Script and Print''This collection will appeal to students and scholars of history, literature, and cultural studies and is essential for specialists in the history of reading.' - Bill Bell, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book, The University of Edinburgh'...perfectly designed for university teachers and their students.' - Library & Information History

• Section 1: Defining the Field: What is the History of Reading? Section 2: Theorising the Reader Section 3: Researching and Using Literacy Section 4: Reading the Masses Section 5: Reading Communities Section 6: Individual Readers Section 7: New Directions and Methods in the History of Reading