Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England

ISBN: 9781107421837 出版年：2010 页码：320 David Allan Cambridge University Press

1. The problem with reading: history and theory in the culture of Georgian England Part I. Origins: 2. 'Many sketches and scraps of sentiments': what is a commonplace book? 3. A very short history of commonplacing 4. Commonplacing modernity: enlightenment and the necessity of note-taking Part II. Form and Matter: 5. 'A sort of register or orderly collection of things: Locke and the organisation of wisdom 6. The importance of being epigrammatic 7. Manufacturing an encyclopaedia Part III. Readers and Reading: 8. Critical autonomy and readership 9. Dexterity and textuality: the experience of reading Part IV. Ancient and Modern: 10. Sounding the muses' lyre: rhetoric and neo-classicism 11. Invention and imitation: practising the art of composition Part V. Texts and Tastes: 12. Taming the Bard: dramatic readings 13. Commonplacing and the modern canon Part VI. Anatomising the Self: 14. The selfish narrator 15. Self-made news 16. Reading excursions: on being transported Envoi: 17. The rise of the novel and the fall of commonplacing: conjoined narratives? Bibliography Index.