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 British Commonplace Readers, 1706–1879 9
7. Chapter 2 Reading in God’s Treasure-House: The Societies for Purchasing Books in Leadhills and Wanlockhead, 1741–1820 30
8. Chapter 3 The School Library and Childhood Reading in Lowland Scotland, 1750–1850 55
9. Chapter 4 ‘Although ambitious we did not aspire to such dizzy heights’: Manuscript Magazines and Communal Reading Practices of London Literary Societies in the Long Nineteenth Century 75
10. Chapter 5 Space and Place in Nineteenth-Century Images of Women Readers 96
11. Chapter 6 Asian Classic Literature and the English General Reader, 1845–1915 116
12. Chapter 7 Readers and Reading During Russia’s Literacy Transition, 1850–1950: How Readers Shaped a Great Literature 137
13. Chapter 8 F. F. Pavlenkov’s Literacy Project: Popular Serials and Reading Rooms for the Russian Masses 157
14. Chapter 9 Formal and Informal Networks of Book Provision for Rural Children in Australia and New Zealand, 1900–60 180
15. Chapter 10 Putting Your Best Books Forward: A Historical and Psychological Look at the Presentation of Book Collections 198
16. Chapter 11 In Search of the Chinese Common Reader: Vernacular Knowledge in an Age of New Media 218
17. Chapter 12 From ‘Bookworms’ to ‘Scholar-Farmers’: Tao Xingzhi and Changing Understandings of Literacy in the Chinese Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1923–34 238
18. Chapter 13 The Voice of the Reader: The Landscape of Online Book Discussion in the Netherlands, 1997–2016 258
19. Chapter 14 Novel Ideas: The Promotion of North American Book Club Books and the Creation of Their Readers 280
20. Chapter 15 Making the Story Real: Readers, Fans and the Novels of John Green 299
21. Select Bibliography 319
22. Index of Methods and Sources 342
23. General Index 343