Böcker av Eve Tavor (University of Oklahoma) Bannet

Exploring six methods of reading in their social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical context, Eve Tavor Bannet demonstrates how guides to reading showed people of all ranks how to read and use periodicals and books, preparing them for new jobs and new roles in Britain, America and the Atlantic world.

Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt.

Among the most frequently reprinted books of the eighteenth century, letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which connected and unified the British Atlantic world. Eve Tavor Bannet's lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read eighteenth-century letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world.