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Surprised by sin
The American poetry wax museum
Reacher said nothing
Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader
Hallucinating Foucault
Mandeville's medieval audiences
Author and audience in Latin literature
Idylls of the marketplace
Consuming pleasures
The empathic reader
Voi altri pochi
Reading Life
Ways of reading
Starting out in the evening
Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility
Authorship and authority
The Ayn Rand cult
In the Company of Books
Gendered modernisms
Modes of Production of Victorian Novels
The Gutenberg Elegies
Dreams and inward journeys
Digital fictions
Snobbery with violence
Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter
Romantic theatricality
Resisting representation
Reading Games
Printing technology, letters, & Samuel Johnson
Thinking outside the book
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