The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. The collection brings together key debates concerning quixotic narratives, print culture, sensibility, empiricism, book history, and the material text, connecting developments in print technology to gendered conceptualizations of quixotism.
 

AMELIA DALE is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Literature at the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics in China. 

List of Illustrations iii
Acknowledgements iv
Abbreviations vi
Introduction: Impressions and the Quixotic Reader 1
1. Marking the Eyes in The Female Quixote 30
2. Performing Print in Polly Honeycombe: A Dramatick Novel 70
3. Penetrating Readers in Tristram Shandy 116
4. Enthusiasm, Methodism and Metaphors in The Spiritual Quixote 156
5. Citational Quixotism in Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 206
Conclusions: Quixotic Impressions in the Nineteenth Century 254
Bibliography 263
Index 298
About the Author 299