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Developmental psychology --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Teaching --- Educational sciences --- International --- Boys --- Academic performance --- Reading habits --- Girls --- Education --- Students --- Sex differences --- Reports [materialtype] --- Chiffres

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In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels. Michals considers how historically specific ideas about age shaped not only the readership of novels, but also the ways that characters are represented within them. Arguing that age is first understood through social status, and later through the ideal of psychological development, the book examines the new determination of authors at the end of the nineteenth century, such as Henry James, to write for an audience of adults only. In these novels and in their reception, a world of masters and servants became a world of adults and children.

Comparative literature --- Fiction --- English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Adulthood in literature. --- Children in literature. --- English fiction --- Children's literature, English --- Books and reading --- Children --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- History --- History. --- American fiction --- Children's literature --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appreciation --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place where histories of race and histories of books intersect is in the minds and bodies of readers. Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and historical phenomenology, this book provides a detailed case study of printed romances and works by Montalvo, Heliodorus, Amyot, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Munday, Burton, Sidney and Wroth. Reading and the History of Race traces ways in which print culture and the reading practices it encouraged, contributed to shifting understandings of racial and ethnic identity.

Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Race awareness --- Books and reading --- Race awareness in literature. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnic attitudes --- History --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Intellectual life --- Blacks in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Negroes in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature. --- Race awareness. --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- Arts and Humanities

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Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy. Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscription is found, attributing ownership to a certain Angelica Baldachini. The discovery sets in motion a series of inquiries, deploying knowledge about calligraphy, orthography, linguistics, dialectology and the socio-psychology of writing, to reveal the person behind the name. Focusing as much on the possible owner as upon the thing owned, Angelica's Book examines the genesis of the Piacevoli Notti and its many editions, including the one in question. The intertwined stories of the book and its owner are set against the backdrop of a Renaissance world, still imperfectly understood, in which literature and reading were subject to regimes of control; and the new information throws aspects of this world into further relief, especially in regard to women's involvement with reading, books and knowledge. The inquiry yields unexpected insights concerning the logic of accidental discovery, the nature of evidence, and the mission of the humanities in a time of global crisis. Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy is a thought-provoking read for any scholar of early modern Europe and its culture.

E-books --- Books and reading --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History --- Social aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Baldachini, Angelica --- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, --- Books and reading. --- History of civilization --- History of Italy --- reading culture --- anno 1400-1499 --- European literature --- Renaissance --- History. --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern

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Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; Derek Pearsall is Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal,Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya., John J. Thompson.

Book history --- anno 500-1499 --- 09 <082 EDWARDS, A.S.G.> --- 091 --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--EDWARDS, A.S.G. --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Buchproduktion. --- Textproduktion. --- Leser. --- Edwards, Anthony Stockwell Garfield, --- Großbritannien --- Großbritannien. --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Books and reading --- Books --- History --- Edwards, A. S. G. --- 091 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Literary patrons --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--EDWARDS, A.S.G --- Early printed books --- Incunabula --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Edwards, Anthony S. G. --- Edwards, Tony, --- Manuscripts, Medieval - History --- Books and reading - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Books and reading - Europe - History --- Books and reading - England - History --- Books - History - 400-1450 --- Books - History - 1450-1600 --- Edwards, A. S. G. - (Anthony Stockwell Garfield), - 1942 --- -Manuscripts, Medieval --- -Buchproduktion. --- Book Culture. --- Chaucer. --- Langland. --- Medieval Manuscripts. --- Medieval Texts. --- Merchant Patronage. --- Nicholas Love. --- Woman Patron.