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Gagnier, Regenia,
Subjectivities
,
268
n25

Gallagher, Catherine,
Nobody’s Story
,
268
n28,
282
n37

Galsworthy, John, “Quality,”
29
,
30

Gamer, Michael, “Waverley and the Object of (Literary) History,”
278
n14

Garvey, Ellen Gruber,
19

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn:
The
Life
of
Charlotte
Brontë
,
275
n21;
Mary
Barton
,
70
;
My
Lady
Ludlow
,
282
n34;
North
and
South
,
2
,
70
,
93

gender,
10
,
75
,
283
n2; and Charlotte Adams,
285
n28; and class,
197
,
236
; and division of labor,
100
; and food vs. books,
31
; and it-narrative,
240
; jokes about,
24
; and literacy,
2
; and newspapers,
51
; and newspaper vs. novel,
48
; and Pitman,
99
; and prize books,
163
; and text,
17
; and text vs. book,
31
.
See
also
men; sexuality; women

gentleman,
68
,
92
,
146
,
220
,
237
,
238

Gentleman’s Magazine
,
2
,
123

gentry,
11
,
213–14

Gettelman, Debra,
274
n9

Ghosh, Anindita,
160

Gibbon, Edward,
1

gifts,
139
,
149
; Bibles as,
115
,
123
,
151
,
189
,
209
; books as,
6
,
49
,
109
,
115
,
123
,
139
,
146
,
149
,
151
,
155
,
156
,
162
,
163
,
189
,
204
; religious tracts as,
109
,
150–62
,
201
,
206
,
217

Gigante, Linda,
233
,
237

Gilbert
Guestling, or, the Story of a Hymn-Book
,
209

Gillray, James, “Matrimonial Harmonics,”
53

Gilmartin, Kevin,
151
,
181
,
280
n13

Ginzburg, Carlo,
32
,
33
,
130

Girl’s Own Paper
,
134

Gissing, George,
77
,
259
;
New
Grub
Street
,
31
,
258
;
Our
Friend
the
Charlatan
,
41
;
The
Private
Papers
of
Henry
Ryecroft
,
30–31
,
258
; “The Prize Lodger,”
55

Gitelman, Lisa,
265
n4

Gladstone, Mary,
58

Gladstone, W. E., “On Books and the Housing of Them,”
144
,
184
,
228
,
234
,
236

Gleanings
from
Popular
Authors
,
98
,
99
,
100

“Goblin and the Huckster, The,”
252

Godey’s Lady’s Book
,
117
,
118
,
120
,
124
,
125
,
131–32

God/providence,
14
,
17
,
134
,
135

Godwin, William,
Political
Justice
,
245

Goffman, Erving,
48
;
Behavior
in
Public
Places
,
68
,
271
n6

Goldsmith, Oliver:
History
of
Rome
,
73
,
74
,
80
;
The
Vicar
of
Wakefield
,
82

Goodell, Charles Le Roy,
My
Mother’s Bible
,
278
n9

Goody, Jack,
143

Goolsbee, Austan,
177

Gosse, Edmund,
Father
and
Son
,
252–53
,
254

gothic, the,
212–13
,
250
,
254

Grand, Sarah:
The
Beth
Book
,
75
,
273
n6;
The
Heavenly
Twins
,
56

Green, James N., and Peter Stallybrass,
225

Green, Laura:
Educating
Women
,
78
; “‘I Recognized Myself in Her,’”
282
n27

Green, S. G.,
134

Greenwood, Frederick,
195–96

Greenwood, James, “Penny Awfuls,”
69
,
70

Greenwood, Thomas,
Public
Libraries
,
195
,
228–29

Greetham, David, “What Is Textual Scholarship?”,
237
,
266
n10

Gregg, John Robert,
97

Grenby, M. O., “Chapbooks, Children, and Children’s Literature,”
281
n26

Griswold, Wendy,
57

Groller, Balduin,
256

Gurney, Thomas,
Brachygraphy
,
96
,
106

Hackman, Alfred,
37–38

Hadley, Elaine,
Living
Liberalism
,
280
n10

Hadley, Tessa, “Seated Alone with a Book. . . . ,”
271
n5

Haggard, H. Rider,
236

Hamel, Christopher de,
233

Hamilton, Elizabeth, and Claire Grogan,
Memoirs
of
Modern
Philosophers
,
215
,
245

Hamilton, Frances,
176

Handed-On: Or, the Story of a Hymn Book
,
109
,
112
,
119–20

handling,
5–6
,
8
,
71
; and animal origins,
132
; and children vs. adults,
75
,
78
,
100
; and contact with others,
139
,
140
; disparate activities of,
10
; and Eliot,
171
; evidence of,
20
,
32
,
256
; gentle,
186
; infection through,
15
; and it-narrative,
121–24
,
126
; lexicon for manual gestures of,
7
; and Mayhew,
220
,
239
,
240
,
257
; and mental vs. manual operations,
113
; of novels vs. tracts,
212
; and object narrative,
128
; of old books,
10
; and reading,
257
; reading of,
33–38
; refusal of,
8
; and Religious Tract Society,
111
; by servants,
175–93
; and sexuality,
197
; and social relations,
9–10
; and social world,
9
,
12–13
,
31
,
175
,
218
; and spirit vs. matter,
28
; survival of,
225
; and tracts,
152
,
175–76
,
259

handmaid, and bibliographer,
237
,
252

handpress era,
11
,
109
,
120

Hardy, Thomas,
The
Mayor
of
Casterbridge
,
46–47

Hare, Augustus,
89

Harmsworth, Alfred,
Lord
Northcliffe
,
218

Harries, Patrick,
40

Harrington, Charles,
The
Republican
Refuted
,
232

Harrison, Frederic,
The
Choice
of
Books
,
140

Hazlitt, William,
5

Heine, Heinrich,
3
,
126

Henkin, David,
City
Reading
,
271
n6

heroic myth,
16

heroic narrative,
54

hidden hand,
111

Hileken, G. F.,
201–2

Hill, Rowland,
206
,
208
,
216
,
286
n30;
Post
Office
Reform
,
147–48
,
217
,
286
n30

Hill, Rowland, and George Birkbeck Norman Hill,
The
Life
of
Sir
Rowland
Hill
,
145
,
146–47
,
286
n30

Hinduism,
28

History
of
a
Bible
,
111
,
112
,
125
,
126–27
,
240

History
of
a
Book, The
,
111
,
126

“History of an Old Pocket Bible, The,”
109
,
115
,
118–19

History
of
a
Pocket
Prayer
Book, Written by Itself, The
,
109

History
of
a
Religious
Tract
Supposed
to
Be
Related
by
Itself, The
,
109
,
111
,
115
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
122
,
125

History
of
the
British
and
Foreign
Bible
Society
,
134

History
of
the
Devil, The
,
72
,
78
,
79

Hitchman, Francis,
40

Hitler, Adolf,
Mein
Kampf
,
149

Hofmeyr, Isabel,
23

Holcroft, Thomas,
Hugh
Trevor
,
3
,
126

Hollywood,
62

Holsinger, Bruce,
28
,
132

Hone, William,
245

Hood, Thomas,
27
; “The Choice Works of Thomas Hood,”
279
n3

Horsburgh, Matilda,
111
;
The
Story
of
a
Red
Velvet
Bible
,
109
,
116

horses,
12
,
28
,
223

hors-texte,
23
,
27

Household
Words
,
62
,
74

House of Lords,
196

Howsam, Leslie,
123
,
151
,
155
,
160
,
244

“How to Make a Chatelaine a Real Blessing to Mothers,”
51
,
52

“How to Read Tracts,”
2
,
91

Humphreys, Arthur Lee,
The
Private
Library
,
19

Hunt, Lynn,
125

Hunter, Dard,
225

Hunter, Ian: “The History of Theory,”
268
n27; “Literary Theory in Civil Life,”
30
; “Setting Limits to Culture,”
265
n8

husbands,
12
,
47
,
72
; as beating wives,
53
,
124
; books as refuge from wives of,
55
; and distraction of reading novels,
193
; as hiding behind newspapers,
13
,
51
,
62
; hiding by,
13
,
15
; as hiding from wives,
74
; and newspapers,
55–56
,
62
,
73
,
203
; of New Woman fiction,
53
; as preventing wives from reading,
55–56
; reading as sign of lost happiness of,
58–59
; and romance with characters,
259
; and shrewish wife,
53
; text as invisible to,
50
; in Thackeray,
66
; and unread newspaper,
73
; wife’s freedom from gaze of,
61
; and wives,
15
; wives as blocking from reading,
54
.
See
also
marriage; men

Hutton, R. H.,
96

Hyde, Lewis,
139

hymnbooks,
109
,
119–20
,
209
,
231
,
241

identity,
8
,
10
; and differentiation from other readers,
199
; in G. Eliot,
140
,
168
,
169
; and it-narrative,
129
; of reader,
18
,
81
; and reading,
139
; and religious tracts,
164
,
165
,
166
,
167

identity politics,
96

individual,
268
n25,
280
n12,
291
n3; and bildungsroman,
17
,
130
,
193
; and conversion narrative,
193
; and dependence on multiple agents,
176–77
; in Dickens,
86
; and family,
193
; and feminism,
51
,
56
; and free print,
164
; and it-narratives,
120–21
; joining and separation of,
13
; as market of novels,
14
; and mass public,
218
,
260
; and novels,
15
; novels of development of,
3
; and postal debates,
216
,
286
n30; and reading,
176
; and reading logistics,
176
; and silent reading,
16
; and social dependence,
203–4
; and text vs. book,
17
; and tracts,
15
,
164
,
175

industrial novel,
239

information overload,
146
,
156
,
213
,
234

inscription,
172
,
258
; in Dickens,
94
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
104
,
128
,
130
,
140
; in Eliot,
168
,
170
,
171
,
172
,
173
; and servants,
186
; technologies of,
101

“Institution for the Evangelization of Gypsies,”
122

interiority,
13
,
16
,
47
,
51
,
71
,
78
,
82
,
148
,
193
,
239

interpersonal connections: book as competing with,
14
; and religious tracts,
17
,
190
,
194
.
See
also
social relationships

interpretation: and dusting and shelving,
7
; limits of,
219
,
256
; reading as,
8
,
21
,
22
,
93
; and social life of books,
34
; and tracts,
152
; typological,
130

interpretive communities,
151–52

Irish,
93
,
206
,
236
,
241

irony,
17

Irving, Washington,
230

it-narratives,
14
,
37
,
39
,
107–35
,
168
,
256
,
278
n14; and Addison,
235
; and aging,
223
; as allegory of authorship,
110
; and authors,
110
; and beating,
124
; and bildungsroman,
124–30
,
131
; and body,
118
,
125
; and book-object,
110
,
132
; and children,
108–9
,
125
,
129
; and circulation,
14
,
110
; and death,
228
; defined,
107
; and Dickens,
122–23
,
126–27
,
128–29
; eighteenth-century,
108
,
109
; and Eliot,
241
; as found objects,
110
; and health vs. misfortune,
229
; and life cycle of books,
109
; and life story,
125
; as literal representation of the book,
110
; and Mayhew,
231
,
239
,
245
; and narrator,
109
,
111
,
112–13
,
115
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
120
,
122
,
123
,
124
,
125
,
126
,
127
,
165
,
278
n13; old paper in,
250
; persons linked to books in,
126
; and printed objects,
130
; and prison metaphor,
111–12
,
127
,
226
; and providence,
242
; and religion,
109
; and religious publications,
110–20
; and religious tracts,
153
; and respect for books,
186
,
188
; and sense of self,
128
; and servants,
112–13
,
165
; and social scale,
247
; structure of,
112
,
118
; and subjectivity,
124
,
125
,
128
; and suffering,
118
,
122
,
123
,
124
,
129
; and transmission vs. destruction,
240
; and voice,
109
,
110
,
114
,
116
,
119
,
124
,
127
,
128
; and vulnerability,
118
,
122
,
128

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