‘I can’t resist sending you the book’: Private Libraries, Elite Women, and Shared Reading Practices in Georgian Britain
‘I can’t resist sending you the book’: Private Libraries, Elite Women, and Shared Reading Practices in Georgian Britain
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“我无法抗拒寄给你这本书”：格鲁吉亚英国的私人图书馆、精英女性和共享阅读实践
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2013
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M. Towsey
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M. Towsey
摘要通过概述私人图书馆对苏格兰东北部农村特定读者群体的智力和文化生活的贡献，本文探讨了家族图书馆在漫长的18世纪图书馆供应增长中所起的作用。随着图书借阅在晚期乔治亚时代英国的礼貌文化中成为一种社会需求，私人图书馆经常成为更广泛的社区的实用资源，提供在其他地方无法获得的书籍，并填补农村社区在公共领域提供方面的重要空白，而农村社区无法获得订阅或流通图书馆。然而，更重要的是，图书共享的实践对社区凝聚力、共享的阅读习惯和智力文化产生了深远的影响。这篇文章特别指出了私人书籍的实物交换在传播和广泛接受有关女性教育、育儿以及与詹姆斯·福迪斯和让-雅克·卢梭相关的独立领域的新思想方面所起的作用。
Abstract By outlining the contribution made by private libraries to the intellectual and cultural lives of a specific group of readers in the rural north-east of Scotland, this article asks what role family libraries played in the growth of library provision in the long eighteenth century. With book lending becoming something of a social imperative in the polite culture of late Georgian Britain, private libraries often served as a practical resource for the wider community, providing books that could not be acquired elsewhere, and filling important gaps in ‘public sphere’ provision in rural communities with- out access to subscription or circulating libraries. More importantly, though, the practice of book sharing had far-reaching consequences for community cohesion, shared reading habits, and intellectual culture. In particular, this essay points to the role played by the physical exchange of private books in the dissemination and widespread acceptance of new ideas relating to female education, child-rearing, and separate spheres associated with James Fordyce and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.