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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

Daston, Lorraine,
22
,
34

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

daydreams,
8
,
77
,
78–80
,
92

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

debasement,
26
,
105
,
127
,
129
,
230

Defoe, Daniel,
170
;
Robinson
Crusoe
,
72
,
82
,
109
,
206
,
207
,
208

De Quincey, Thomas, “The Street Companion,”
30

Derrida, Jacques,
23

detective novel,
247
,
252

devotional books,
115
,
209

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

didactic texts,
13
,
38
,
68

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

dummy spines,
23
,
27
,
70
,
84

Duncan, Ian:
Modern
Romance
and
Transformations
of
the
Novel
,
291
n3;
Scott’s Shadow
,
250

Dyer, S.,
158–59
,
160–61

Edgerton, David,
20

Edgeworth, Maria,
258–59
; “Mademoiselle Panache,”
202
;
Patronage
,
196
;
Simple
Susan
,
69

Edinburgh
Review
,
232

editors,
77
,
91
,
107
,
110
,
240

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

Edwards, Edward,
40
,
244
,
245

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

Enlightenment,
11
,
111
,
139

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

Evangelical tracts,
7
,
16
,
17
,
28

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

fashion-books,
249
,
254

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

feminism,
51
,
56

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

fetish,
40
,
131
,
157
,
169

“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

Forster, John,
83–84
,
85
,
96

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

Fraser’s
,
26
,
105
,
129
,
280
n8

Freedgood, Elaine,
21
;
The
Ideas
in
Things
,
22

Freeland, Natalka,
251
; “Trash Fiction,”
247

free print,
6
,
8
,
150
,
164
,
206
,
212

freethinkers,
16
,
40
,
156

Fried, Michael,
Absorption
and
Theatricality
,
73

friendship,
14
,
15
,
132
,
144
,
194

Friswell, Hain,
142
,
226
,
247

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

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