This suite of three volumes, available in a discounted pack, offers a comprehensive overview of current research in the history of reading from different perspectives, collating a wealth of recent evidence-based investigations of reading practice from c.1500 to the present day andoffering an agenda for future directions in scholarship.Editor Biographies:SHAFQUAT TOWHEED is Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK, and Co-Investigator on The Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945 (RED) project. He is co-editor of

The History of Reading: A Reader

(Routledge, 2010) and

The History of Reading, Vol.3: Methods, Strategies,Tactics

(Palgrave, 2011), and editor of Arthur Conan Doyle's

The Sign of Four

(Broadview,2010).W.R. OWENS is Professor of English Literature at The Open University, UK. He has publishedwidely on John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe, and is Director of the Reading Experience Database,1450–1945 (RED) project. His most recent publication is an edition of the 1611 text of

TheGospels for Oxford World's Classics

(2011).KATIE HALSEY is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Stirling, UK.Her publications include numerous articles on literature and print culture, and the co-editedvolumes

The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century

(2007) and

The History of Reading

(2010).ROSALIND CRONE is a Lecturer in History at the Open University, UK, and Co-Investigator onThe Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED) project. She has published widely onpopular culture, crime and literacy in the nineteenth century and is author of the forthcoming

Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London

(Manchester UniversityPress).

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The History of Reading (3 volume pack)

Volumes 1, 2 and 3Edited by W.R. Owens and Shafquat Towheed

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