Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace

1. An Introduction to Reading Communities: Processes and Formations
DeNel Rehberg Sedo

2. Reading in an Epistolary Community in Eighteenth-Century England
Betty A. Schellenberg

3. Nineteenth-Century Reading Groups in Britain and the Community of the Text: an Experiment with Little Dorrit
Jenny Hartley

4. Reading Across the Empire: the National Home Reading Union Abroad
Robert Snape

5. Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise
Daniel Born

6. ‘I Used to Read Anything that Caught My Eye, But …’: Cultural Authority and Intermediaries in a Virtual Young Adult Book Club
DeNel Rehberg Sedo

7. The Growth of Reading Groups as a Feminine Leisure Pursuit: Cultural Democracy or Dumbing Down?
Anna Kiernan

8. Speaking Subjects: Developing Identities in Women’s Reading Communities
Linsey Howie

9. Leading Questions: Interpretative Guidelines in Contemporary Popular Reading Culture
Anna S. Ivy

10. Marionettes and Puppeteers? The Relationship between Book Club Readers and Publishers
Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Claire Squires

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Media Studies