L Price
Biographic Data
| ID | 3306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Price |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Price |
| SIGNATURE | PRICE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6256-9073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Politics of Proxy Reading
This essay asks why nineteenth-century British children's fiction locates illiteracy in the West Indies. I compare abolitionists’ accusation that planters mistake the bodily work of looking at books for the mental effort of understanding them with post-Emancipation debates about the balance of power between a woman who reads aloud and a man who listens. Finally, I ask how that dyad changes once proxy reading becomes confined to two scenarios: an …
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Response
Research Article| August 01 2014 Response Leah Price Leah Price LEAH PRICE teaches English at Harvard; her most recent book is How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2014) 127 (1): 93–97. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2014.127.1.93 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
This book asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dicken…
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
"From The History of a Book to a "History of the Book
The ambition of this article is to wrest attention away from the fraction of any book's life cycle spent in the hands of readers and toward, instead, the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a prompt. It asks, how accounts of print culture would look if narrated from the point of view not of human readers and users, but of the book. Turning to the nineteenth-century genre of "it-narrative"-which traces the travel o…
The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text , by Garrett Stewart
Reviewed by: The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text Leah Price (bio) The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text, by Garrett Stewart; pp. xvii + 411. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, $65.00, £41.00. This is a book that every thinking person will want to read and to look at. Both acts are equally necessary, because it juxtaposes two media: a series of images that in themselves would make up a substantial coffee-table boo…
Introduction: Reading Matter
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Reader's Block: Response
B n y-the-by, that very word, Reading, in its critical use, always charms me. An actress's Reading of a chambermaid, a dancer's Reading of a hornpipe, a singer's Reading of a song, a marine painter's Reading of the sea, the kettle-drum's Reading of an instrumental passage, are phrases ever youthful and delightful (Dickens, Our Mutual Friend 605). Thus Eugene Wrayburn, in a novel that obsessively plays the symbolic value of literacy off against th…
Reading: The State of the Discipline
Genre et lectorat: Le cas de George Eliot
Dans cet article, Leah Price remonte à l’origine de la réputation de pédante dont souffre la romancière George Eliot aujourd’hui encore. Elle nous montre concrètement comment cette image a été déterminée par des choix éditoriaux du vivant de l’autrice et comment le statut canonique d’une part et le genre (gender) de l’autrice de l’autre ont toujours limité la réception de son œuvre
Development of a sensation-seeking scale.
This article reports the development of a Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) designed to quantify the construct: “optimal stimulation level.” Items were written, using the construct as a guide, and given to undergraduates. The items were factor analyzed. A general factor was found and the item-factor cor
Reading: The State of the Discipline
"From The History of a Book to a "History of the Book
The ambition of this article is to wrest attention away from the fraction of any book's life cycle spent in the hands of readers and toward, instead, the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a prompt. It asks, how accounts of print culture would look if narrated from the point of view not of human readers and users, but of the book. Turning to the nineteenth-century genre of "it-narrative"-which traces the travel o…
Development of a sensation-seeking scale.
This article reports the development of a Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) designed to quantify the construct: “optimal stimulation level.” Items were written, using the construct as a guide, and given to undergraduates. The items were factor analyzed. A general factor was found and the item-factor cor
Genre et lectorat: Le cas de George Eliot
Dans cet article, Leah Price remonte à l’origine de la réputation de pédante dont souffre la romancière George Eliot aujourd’hui encore. Elle nous montre concrètement comment cette image a été déterminée par des choix éditoriaux du vivant de l’autrice et comment le statut canonique d’une part et le genre (gender) de l’autrice de l’autre ont toujours limité la réception de son œuvre
Reader's Block: Response
B n y-the-by, that very word, Reading, in its critical use, always charms me. An actress's Reading of a chambermaid, a dancer's Reading of a hornpipe, a singer's Reading of a song, a marine painter's Reading of the sea, the kettle-drum's Reading of an instrumental passage, are phrases ever youthful and delightful (Dickens, Our Mutual Friend 605). Thus Eugene Wrayburn, in a novel that obsessively plays the symbolic value of literacy off against th…
Reading: The State of the Discipline
Introduction: Reading Matter
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text , by Garrett Stewart
Reviewed by: The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text Leah Price (bio) The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text, by Garrett Stewart; pp. xvii + 411. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, $65.00, £41.00. This is a book that every thinking person will want to read and to look at. Both acts are equally necessary, because it juxtaposes two media: a series of images that in themselves would make up a substantial coffee-table boo…
"From The History of a Book to a "History of the Book
The ambition of this article is to wrest attention away from the fraction of any book's life cycle spent in the hands of readers and toward, instead, the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a prompt. It asks, how accounts of print culture would look if narrated from the point of view not of human readers and users, but of the book. Turning to the nineteenth-century genre of "it-narrative"-which traces the travel o…
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
This book asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dicken…
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
Response
Research Article| August 01 2014 Response Leah Price Leah Price LEAH PRICE teaches English at Harvard; her most recent book is How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2014) 127 (1): 93–97. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2014.127.1.93 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
A Politics of Proxy Reading
This essay asks why nineteenth-century British children's fiction locates illiteracy in the West Indies. I compare abolitionists’ accusation that planters mistake the bodily work of looking at books for the mental effort of understanding them with post-Emancipation debates about the balance of power between a woman who reads aloud and a man who listens. Finally, I ask how that dyad changes once proxy reading becomes confined to two scenarios: an …
Art (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 works) · 19th century (3 works) · Great britain (3 works) · History (3 works) · History and criticism (3 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (3 works)