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Authors: Leah Price
Dairyman’s Daughter, The
,
285
n21
Dames, Nicholas,
The
Physiology
of
the
Novel
,
270
n1
Dante,
59
D’Arcy, Ella, “Irremediable,”
55
Dardier, J. P.,
217
Darnton, Robert,
130
,
151
;
The
Business
of
Enlightenment
,
22
,
134
;
The
Kiss
of
Lamourette
,
152
Darwin, Charles,
55
Davidson, Cathy, “The Life and Times of Charlotte Temple,”
134
Davies, Tony,
62
Davis, Natalie,
260
; “Beyond the Market: Books as Gifts in Sixteenth-Century France,”
139
Davis, Nuel Pharr,
213
Deakin, Mary H.,
229
death/mortality,
13
,
129
,
168
,
169
,
225
,
227–30
,
234
,
286
n1; and burial metaphors,
143–44
; and circulation,
234
; and corpses,
22
,
29
,
144
; and Eliot,
229
; and Greenwood,
228–29
; and the living,
13
,
15
,
175
; and materiality of books,
169
; and paper,
251
Defoe, Daniel,
170
;
Robinson
Crusoe
,
72
,
82
,
109
,
206
,
207
,
208
De Quincey, Thomas, “The Street Companion,”
30
Derrida, Jacques,
23
Dewing, Maria Oakey,
Beauty
in
the
Household
,
284
n16
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall,
3
Dickens, Charles,
7
,
36
,
82
,
122–23
,
259
;
American
Notes
and
Reprinted
Pieces
,
128
; and authors/authorship,
95
,
96
,
97
,
100
;
Bleak
House
,
10
,
163
,
167
,
189
,
207
; and copyrights,
181
; and dummy spines,
23
;
Great
Expectations
,
210
;
Hard
Times
,
10
,
207
; and Mayhew,
221
; “Meditations in Monmouth-Street,”
248
;
Nicholas
Nickleby
,
101
;
The
Old
Curiosity
Shop
,
285
n21;
Oliver
Twist
,
25
,
84–85
,
90
,
239
;
Our
Mutual
Friend
,
1–2
,
21
,
23
,
94
;
The
Pickwick
Papers
,
89
,
96
;
Prospectus
for
the
Cheap
Edition
of
the
Works
of
Mr. Charles Dickens
,
133
; and publishing industry,
90
; and shorthand,
96–100
;
Sketches
by
Boz
,
248
; speech at Press Club,
97–98
; and stenography,
97
;
A
Tale
of
Two
Cities
,
248
; and tract societies,
156
;
The
Uncommercial
Traveller
,
102
—
David
Copperfield
,
125
,
231
,
239
,
252
,
253
,
254
,
278
n14; appearances in,
1–2
; and book as weapon,
73
,
75
,
76
,
77
,
88
; boot-tree in,
73
,
74
,
82
; bottle warehouse in,
85
,
92
,
105
,
106
,
126
,
130
; child beaten in,
176
; class in,
105–6
; critical reception of,
95
; and instrumentalization of reading,
89
; and it-narratives,
122–23
,
126–27
,
128–29
; kinship in,
14
,
85–86
; labels in,
23
,
92
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
106
,
126–27
,
128
,
129
; Pitman reprints from,
98–99
; qualification of reading in,
78
,
82–86
,
89
; reading metaphors in,
92–93
,
94–95
,
96
; and reception theory,
131
; sandwich board in,
101
,
103
,
105
,
106
,
126
,
129
,
130
; stenography in,
98–100
,
103
; transposed into shorthand,
96
; writing in,
94
,
100–104
Dickinson, Emily,
173
Dickinson, Susan,
173
Diderot, Denis,
67–68
,
203
,
259
;
Les
bijoux
indiscrets
,
109
; “Eloge de Richardson,”
272
n17
digital age,
5
digital media,
7
digitization,
256–57
Dinesen, Isak,
Out
of
Africa
,
237
dirt,
240
; absorption of,
9
; from fellow handlers,
15
; and Lamb,
121
; and library books,
194–95
,
198
,
226
; from servants,
183
,
184
,
185
,
186
,
200
; as sign of use,
122
; and successive users,
169
; and uncut pages,
240
.
See
also
servants: dusting by
discipline,
10
disease,
15
,
175
,
195–97
,
198
,
228–29
,
259
D’Israeli, Isaac,
Curiosities
of
Literature
,
236
,
238
,
240
,
252
distribution,
7
,
130
; infrastructures for,
14
; networks for,
139
,
145
; of prize books,
163
; and social relationships,
7
; systems for,
11
.
See
also
mail; religious tract distribution
Donaldson, Ian,
236
Doveton, F. B.,
27
Doyle, Arthur Conan,
89
Drummond, William,
225
Dublin
University
Magazine
,
24
,
94
,
241
Duff, Alexander,
157
Duguid, Paul,
256–57
; “Material Matters,”
135
;
The
Quality
of
Information
,
34
;
Social
Life
of
Information
,
134
Duncan, Ian:
Modern
Romance
and
Transformations
of
the
Novel
,
291
n3;
Scott’s Shadow
,
250
Edgerton, David,
20
Edgeworth, Maria,
258–59
; “Mademoiselle Panache,”
202
;
Patronage
,
196
;
Simple
Susan
,
69
Edinburgh
Review
,
232
education,
22
,
41
,
101
,
102
,
117
,
118
,
204
; and books,
17
; of boys vs. girls,
57
; in Dickens,
100–104
; formal,
17
; and servants,
189
; and spread of schooling,
162
.
See
also
schools; teachers
Edwards, Amelia,
Barbara’s History
,
83
Eisenstein, Elizabeth:
The
Printing
Press
as
an
Agent
of
Change
,
134
; “Some Conjectures,”
291
n5
Eliot, George,
7
,
62
,
70
,
234
;
Felix
Holt
,
282
n28; “J. A. Froude’s
The
Nemesis
of
Faith
,”
5
,
267
n20; “Knowing that Shortly I Must Put off this Tabernacle,”
229
;
Middlemarch
,
60
,
108
,
109
,
168
,
171
,
241
;
The
Mill
on
the
Floss
,
3
,
45
,
46
,
72
,
78–80
,
81
,
122
,
139–40
,
168–74
,
229
; and review of
Hawkstone
,
241
;
Romola
,
124
,
168
Eliot, Simon: “Circulating Libraries in the Victorian Age and After,”
247
;
Some
Patterns
and
Trends
in
British
Publishing
,
141
,
150
Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose,
237
Ellison, Keith,
15
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
123
,
124
,
125
,
126
,
194
; “Books,”
112
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and John Lubbock,
132
,
259
Encyclopedia
Britannica
,
142–43
,
220
Enemies
of
Books, The
,
194
epistolary novels,
250
e-readers,
5
Erwin, Miles,
160
etiquette,
17
,
146
.
See
also
conduct literature
Evangelicalism,
2
,
134
,
135
,
150
,
206
,
245
,
251
; and it-narrative,
14
; and Mayhew,
243
; and niche marketing,
164
Evangelical press,
17
,
39
,
90–91
,
109
,
111
,
113
,
159
; and commercial transactions,
156
; and distribution,
156
; niche marketing pioneered by,
139
Evangelical Protestants,
16
Evans, Marian.
See
Eliot, George
Evans, M.D.R., et al.,
84
“Excerpt from
Hereford
Times
,”
97
“Excessive Reading,”
140
Exeter Book,
132
Fabian, Ann,
123
family,
13
; and bildungsroman,
73
; and book as competing with friendships,
14
; as economic unit joining masters with
family (cont.)
servants,
193
; hatred of,
59
; and hiding behind books,
15
; and it-narrative,
120
; and religious tracts,
193
Family
Paper
,
62
family prayers,
214
father: biological and fictive,
85–86
; biological vs. surrogate,
85
; dead,
85
,
86
; in Dickens,
85–86
; identity of,
85
Favret, Mary,
Romantic
Correspondence
,
286
n30
Fellowes, Caroline Wilder, “A volume of Dante,”
123
Fenn, Ellenor,
Fables
,
90
Fergus, Jan S., “Provincial Servants’ Reading in the Late 18th Century,”
285
n21
Ferris, Ina:
The
Achievement
of
Literary
Authority
,
259
; “Bibliographic Romance,”
268
n27;
Romantic
Libraries
,
264
n2
Festa, Lynn,
125
“Few Words About Reading, A,”
140
Fielding, Henry,
233
,
237
;
Shamela
,
198
;
Tom
Jones
,
77
,
82
,
85
Fielding, Penny,
285
n25
Fifty-Sixth Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
,
121
,
156
,
158
,
180–81
Finn, Margot, “Men’s Things,”
280
n7,
280
n12
First International Congress and Jubilee of Phonography,
97
Fish, Stanley,
151–52
Flaubert, Gustave,
50
,
85
;
Madame
Bovary
,
49
,
56
,
60
,
67
,
74
Flint, Christopher,
110
Flint, Kate:
The
Feeling
of
Reading
,
266
n12;
The
Woman
Reader
,
61
,
68
,
89
flypaper,
221
,
238
,
248
,
254
,
289
n21
food,
35
,
206
; and abjection of books,
220
; book as replacing,
30–31
; book’s content as,
24
; and gender,
10
,
31
; leftover,
183
; and Mayhew,
221
,
241–42
; and mind/body puns,
27
; and pages,
245
; and paper,
226–27
; and paper for pie plates,
10
,
27
,
31
,
54–55
,
56
,
219
; paper for sealing,
9
; public distribution of,
206
food wrapping: and Mayhew,
221
,
242
; and mind/body puns,
27
; paper for,
8
,
31
,
250
; as reading,
240
,
242
,
255
,
257
; for sandwiches,
27
,
35
“Foreign Missions at Home,”
157
Forster, E. M.,
Howards
End
,
75
Foucault, Michel,
150
found objects,
90
,
110
,
124–25
,
250
,
251
,
256
.
See
also
under
manuscript(s)
“Frank” and I
,
215
Frankel, Oz,
145
Franklin, Ben,
278
n8
Fraser, Robert,
272
n18
Freedgood, Elaine,
21
;
The
Ideas
in
Things
,
22
Freeland, Natalka,
251
; “Trash Fiction,”
247
free print,
6
,
8
,
150
,
164
,
206
,
212
Fried, Michael,
Absorption
and
Theatricality
,
73
Frith, Gail,
73
Fritzsche, Peter,
149
Fuller, Margaret,
197–98
“Furniture Books,”
3
Fyfe, Aileen: “Commerce and Philanthropy,”
111
,
150
;
Science
and
Salvation
,
38
,
134
,
279
n17
