Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures, Plates and Tables vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9
7. Chapter 2 The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination: Picturing Africans as Readers 30
8. Chapter 3 Augustus De Morgan (1806–71), His Reading and His Library 62
9. Chapter 4 William Gladstone Reads His Contemporaries 83
10. Chapter 5 Reading While Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century 104
11. Chapter 6 The Empire Reads Back: Travel, Exploration and the British World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 124
12. Chapter 7 ‘Knowledge of books’ and ‘Appreciation of literature’: Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era 145
13. Chapter 8 Papers, Posters and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War 165
14. Chapter 9 Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America’s Post-war Therapeutic Faith 185
15. Chapter 10 Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth-Century America 206
16. Chapter 11 Remaking the World Through Reading: Books, Readers and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945–70 226
17. Chapter 12 Amazing Stories, 1950–3: The Readers Behind the Covers 250
18. Chapter 13 The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the Present 264
19. Chapter 14 ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A Methodology for Literary Reading in the Twenty-First Century 283
20. Select Bibliography 306
21. Index of Methods and Sources 334
22. General Index 335