Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace

Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars.

DANIEL BORN Lecturer, Northwestern University, USA DANIELLE FULLER Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK JENNY HARTLEY Professor of English Literature, Roehampton University, London LINSEY HOWIE Associate Professor, La Trobe University, Australia ANNA IVY Senior Lecturer in English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA ANNA KIERNAN Head of the Department of Writing, University College Falmouth, UK BETTY A. SCHELLENBERG Professor and Chair of English, Simon Fraser University, Canada BOB SNAPE Centre for Worktown Studies, University of Bolton, UK CLAIRE SQUIRES Professor of Publishing Studies, University of Stirling, UK