Making the Modern Reader:
Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies

Barbara M. Benedict

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• Preface
• Introduction: The Various Feast
  • Producing Early Collections
• Chapter One: Collecting Culture before the Restoration
  • Renaissance Compendia
  • Courtesy and Writing Right
• Chapter Two: Reading and Heteroglossia in the Restoration
  • Reading and Carnival: Rochester and Behn
  • Reading and Authority: Dryden and the General Reader
• Chapter Three: Discriminating Readers in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • Gender and Miscellanies: Steele and Women in Literary Culture
  • "Praise with Profit": Pope and Publishers
• Chapter Four: Reading Systems in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
  • Authoritative Collections: Dodsley and Eminent Ladies
  • Reading Identity: Novel Forms of the Anthology
• Chapter Five: Reading for Oneself in the Late Eighteenth Century
  • Guides to Culture
  • Children's Anthologies
• Conclusion: The Private Possession of Culture
• Chronological Listing of Early Anthologies
• Bibliography

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