Locating the Reader, or What Do We Do with the Man in the Hat? Methodological Perspectives and Evidence from the United Kingdom Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945 (UK RED)
Keywords:
history of reading, reading culture, Great Britain, 19th cent., 20th cent., visual representations, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Lee, Vernon, Gladstone, W. E., empirical researchAbstract
Using images of readers and textual sources, this essay explains the methodological basis for the Reading Experience Database and international partners. It shows how the RED projects can combine quantitative and qualitative data to locate and recover the experiences of readers through history.References
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