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The Social Life of Books: reading together in the eighteenth-century home

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Conventional wisdom would have us believe that books had little or no social life in the eighteenth century. Since Rolf Engelsing first coined the term to describe changing patterns of… Click to show full abstract

Conventional wisdom would have us believe that books had little or no social life in the eighteenth century. Since Rolf Engelsing first coined the term to describe changing patterns of book ownersh...

Keywords: social life; life books; eighteenth century; books reading

Journal Title: Social History
Year Published: 2018

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