Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors An Introduction to Reading Communities: Processes and Formations;  D.Rehberg Sedo Reading in an Epistolary Community in Eighteenth-Century England; B.Schellenberg   Nineteenth Century Reading Groups in Britain and the Community of the Text: an Experiment with Little Dorrit ; J.Hartley  Reading Across the Empire: the National Home Reading Union Abroad; R.Snape Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise;  D.Born 'I Used to Read Anything that Caught My Eye, But…': Cultural Authority and Intermediaries in a Virtual Young Adult Book Club; D.Rehberg Sedo The Growth of Reading Groups as a Feminine Leisure Pursuit: Cultural Democracy or Dumbing Down?; A.Kiernan  Speaking Subjects: Developing Identities in Book Groups; L.Howie  Leading Questions: Interpretive Guidelines in Contemporary Popular Reading Culture; A.S.Ivy Marionettes and Puppeteers?: The Relationship between Book Club Readers and Publishers; D.Fuller , C.Squires & D.Rehberg Sedo Bibliography Index