'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'. So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she
Textual Studies and the Common Reader collects eleven original essays by editors of literary texts and theorists concerned about the implications of what such e
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture
This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborat