The reading experience database 1800-1945
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: English
Abstract
The Reading Experience Database (RED) is an electronic resource which aims to provide the first fully collated body of historical evidence for the experiences and practices of British readers from 1450-1945. Drawing on a wide range of sources and easily searchable by keywords, it will be an ever-expandable information resource which will fulfil a long-felt need for empirical data on what readers read and what they made of their reading in this period. Its uses will cut across disciplinary boundaries and extend far beyond the academic community. This second phase of research and development will concentrate on the period 1800-1945.
Organisations
Publications
Crone R
(2010)
Reappraising Victorian Literacy through Prison Records
in Journal of Victorian Culture
Eliot S.
(2007)
Literary Cultures and the Material Book
Halsey K
(2009)
'Folk stylistics' and the history of reading: a discussion of method
in Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics