APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF READERS AND READING IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF READERS AND READING IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
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十八世纪英国读者和阅读史的探讨
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2004
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I. Jackson
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I. Jackson
阅读的历史可以将知识和文化的发展与18世纪的社会或政治变化联系起来。这本书的历史学家越来越多地辩称，如果我们要理解文本对个人和整个社会的影响，理解历史阅读实践是必不可少的：仅有文本证据是不够的。最近关于18世纪读者的著作使用了包括图书交易记录、信件和日记在内的来源来重建个人和读者群体的阅读生活。这些资料揭示了18世纪许多读者可以获得的阅读材料的多样性，以及他们在一系列可用阅读策略之间进行选择时经常采用的阅读实践的多样性和复杂性。因此，任何一种理论范式都不太可能涵盖18世纪阅读经验的全部。相反，我们可以追溯特定阅读文化的演变，包括流行和文学阅读文化，以特定印刷体裁为基础的文化的存在，如报纸，以及阅读作为社会和对话生活的一部分。现在需要一种新的综合，将阅读实践的新证据与文本分析结合起来，以解释跨世纪的连续性和变化。
The history of reading can link intellectual and cultural developments with social or political change in the eighteenth century. Historians of the book increasingly argue that an understanding of historical reading practices is essential if we are to understand the impact of texts on individuals and on society as a whole: textual evidence alone is inadequate. Recent work on eighteenth-century readers has used sources including book trade records, correspondence, and diaries to reconstruct the reading lives of individuals and of groups of readers. Such sources reveal the great variety of reading material many eighteenth-century readers could access, and the diversity and sophistication of reading practices they often employed, in selecting between a range of available reading strategies. Thus, any one theoretical paradigm is unlikely to capture the full range of eighteenth-century reading experience. Instead, we can trace the evolution of particular reading cultures, including popular and literary reading cultures, the existence of cultures based around particular genres of print, such as newspapers, and reading as a part of social and conversational life. There is now a need for a new synthesis that combines the new evidence of reading practice with textual analysis to explain continuity and change across the century.