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Jim and Frank: Clearly I've read too many 19th-century novels (went right to illegitimate instead of illegible). I did consult your book, which I hav...

Frank: THank you for the question. As Steve says, we have not looked at class much (in part because we were/are wrongly or rightly less confident of t...

Thank you for this illuminating look at context to re-frame the question of reader agency. On the subject of scarcity, literacy, and (lack of) access,...

To Jim's question about Stowe: Thank you for the reference to Hochfeld's article. Her findings, as you describe them, sound right to me. It might be...