Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Daily Courant, Print Culture, Critical Reading
11 Oct 2016
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Mobile reading (octavo: o(cid:272)ta(cid:448)o(cid:859)s are like po(cid:272)ket (cid:271)ooks, mobility changes the way people read and the social contexts it occurs. Middle/upper classes working classes: middle more likely to read/listening in a public context, upper more by themselves. Novels/fiction: fear unleashed emotions in women; love, anger, etc, reading is a way for women to acquire knowledge and belong to the public realm, some people believed women should only read religious texts. Compare paintings (j. opie; j-b greuze: one on the top is seen problematic by many; women are reading fiction putting. Ideas in their heads: the bottom is exactly what it says; the father of the family reads the bible to his family. Critical reading: books are something to put on a pedestal, more and more books, there is a changing notion of how to read and what they represent. Become less holy; fewer sacred texts, more secular: critical reading you do(cid:374)(cid:859)t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s agree (cid:449)ith the readi(cid:374)g.
