LEADER 04135nam 2200745 450 001 9910456391203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8480-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442684805 035 $a(CKB)2430000000002113 035 $a(EBL)4672359 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382510 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11276943 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382510 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10393150 035 $a(PQKB)10965096 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00222097 035 $a(CaPaEBR)424322 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3261248 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672359 035 $a(DE-B1597)464073 035 $a(OCoLC)1013940683 035 $a(OCoLC)944177121 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442684805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672359 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258028 035 $a(OCoLC)647746626 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000002113 100 $a20160923h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSilent reading and the birth of the narrator /$fElspeth Jajdelska 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in Book and Print Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-9364-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Income, Ideology, and Childhood Reading -- $t2. Pausing for Effect -- $t3. Pausing for Breath -- $t4. Writing Polite Letters -- $t5. The Birth of the Recreational Diary -- $t6. The Birth of the Narrator -- $tAppendix -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aAlthough there is abundant evidence that silent reading existed in antiquity, the question remains as to when it became widespread. Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator asserts that, due to a rise in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries in the number of parents who could afford to let their children read freely, widely, and for prolonged periods, an entire generation grew into fluent, silent readers in the later 1700s. At that point in time, the reader ceased to be a mouthpiece of the writer, becoming instead a silent hearer of an imagined writer?s words.Elspeth Jajdelska uses historical, linguistic, and literary evidence to discuss the reorientation of the text and reader towards one another. She specifically investigates changes in punctuation, sentence structure, and letter and diary writing in the period to illuminate the emergence of a new prose style and the birth of the narrator. Unique to Jajdelska?s study is the consideration of silent reading as something that explains changes in literary history. She also incorporates new insights on the history of reading, the novel, the diary, and the English language, using rigorous linguistic analysis and evidence drawn from the study of psychology. Based on a wealth of compelling arguments, Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator is an important addition to literary studies, eighteenth-century history, and book and print culture. 410 0$aStudies in book and print culture. 606 $aSilent reading$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBooks and reading$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSilent reading$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aBooks and reading$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSilent reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aSilent reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 676 $a028/.09032 700 $aJajdelska$b Elspeth$0896930 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456391203321 996 $aSilent reading and the birth of the narrator$92004151 997 $aUNINA