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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

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