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Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 1 1/4/18 7:24 PM Page ii is blank © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 2 1/4/18 7:24 PM Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century Christina Lupton Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 3 1/4/18 7:24 PM © 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2018 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu < CIP data to come> A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 410-516-6936 or specialsales@ press.jhu.edu. Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post-consumer waste, whenever possible. © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 4 1/4/18 7:24 PM To all readers without time to read © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 5 1/4/18 7:24 PM Page vi is blank © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 6 1/4/18 7:24 PM Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction When Do We Read? 1 The Shortness of Time 00 / The Tense of Reading 00 / Literature as Resistance 00 The Difference Time Makes 00 / Media History as Literary Method 00 1 Time Divided 00 No Difference 00 / Talbot’s Lack of Time 00 / Breaking the Weekly Round 00 Some Sunday Readers 00 / Sir Charles Comes and Goes 00 2 Joining Up Time 00 Rereading for Happiness 00 / Slow Translation 00 Grenville’s Reading Journals 00 / Lifetimes of Reading 00 3 Other Times 00 Reading in the Field 00 / Linear and Random Access 00 Literature and Contingency 00 / Amelia’s Beginning with the End 00 Sidney Bidulph and the Twice-Told Marriage 00 / The Griffths’ Marriage by the Book 00 4 Time to Come 00 Stockpiling 00 / Romantic Media 00 / A Simple Story: Reading Comes Later 00 Godwin: The Future Is Now 00 / Hardcover Truths 00 / You Can’t Skip Pages 00 Coda Academic Time 00 Notes 00 Works Cited 00 Index 00 © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 7 1/4/18 7:24 PM Page viii is blank © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 8 1/4/18 7:24 PM Acknowledgments This book owes much to the last set of people to read it in manuscript form: Ian Balfour, Christina Britzolakis, Maria Damkjær, Lynn Festa (not just for culling the colons), Marcie Frank, Matthew Garrett, Heiko Henkel, Michael Meeuwis, Mark Philp, Adela Pinch, David Taylor, and Chantal Wright. Not only did they fx mistakes and contribute signifcantly to this book’s fnal version; their wisdom and generosity kept me company through a long Danish winter of rewriting. Just as materially, I owe much to the Alexander von Humboldt Trust and to the Leverhulme Trust.As I say in greater length in the conclusion, I have written with the gifts of time their grants gave me in mind.I am thankful to Matt McAdam for taking this project on in an early incarnation, for the team at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Press for bringing it to life, and to David Goehring for his copyediting. And I am grateful to funding from the Warwick Humanities Research Fund, which facilitated conversations vital to my thinking over the past few years. An important part of this book came together in a paper at the English Insti- tute, and I’ll always be glad Sandra Macpherson, Sangeeta Ray, Bill Brown, Bradin Cormack, Jackie Goldsby, Martin Harries, Jonathan Kramnick, David Kastan, Doug Mao, Meredith McGill, and Frances Ferguson invited me into that conver- sation and grateful for the work they and many others do in keeping the EI alive as a space of thought and conversation. I continue to learn so much from workshops and conversations around the world. Thank you to Leslie Adelson, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Samuel Baker, Liz Barry, Christian Benne, Paddy Bullard, Miranda Burgess, Tita Chico, Mark Currie, Nan Da, Alex Dick, Dennis Duncan, Anne-Lise Francois, Kristen Girten, Danny Hack, Sarah Haggarty, Sarah Kareem, Jeff Knight, Marjorie Levinson, Kathy Lubey, Deidre Lynch, Sarah Mesle, Tom Mole, Sarah Moss, Jesse Moles- worth, Brad Pasanek, David Porter, Leah Price, James Raven, Helen Small, An- drew Piper, Jonathan Sachs, Elisa Tamarkin, Gill Partington, Bruce Robbins, Emily Rohrbach, Sean Silver, Rebecca Spang, Kirsten Tranter, Chad Wellmon, © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 9 1/4/18 7:24 PM x Acknowledgments Gillian White, and Eugenia Zurokski for your invitations, dialogues, and argu- ments. All of you are a constant reminder that having time to read is no good without time to talk, and that writing makes no sense at all without good readers. In writing about eighteenth-century women like Talbot and Carter, Opie and Inchbald, I have stood squarely on the shoulders of scholars including Betty Schellenberg, Judith Hawley, Ross Ballaster, Karen O’Brien, Elizabeth Eger, Jen- nie Batchelor, and Terry Castle. Their work has allowed me to write about women readers and writers without this having to be a book about gender or a history book as such.My debt to their scholarship is greater than my endnotes suggest. I have also relied heavily on work done by historians, especially James Raven, Jan Fergus, Carolyn Steedman, and Jonathan Rose—again, the fact that this book is not a proper history of reading was only possible because there are so many good ones out there. I thank the editors of ELH for their permission to republish work that frst ap- peared there. Parts of chapter 1 were published as “Immersing the Network in Time: From the Where to the When of Print Reading,” in ELH, 83.2 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 299–317. Parts of chapter 3 appeared as “Contin- gency, Codex, the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” in ELH, 81.4 (Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Press, 2014), 1173–92. Martin Ryle, Kate Soper, Zara Lupton, and Chris Davies all continue to model the good life in different and inspiring ways. Camilla, Tina, Jesper, Sara, Kristian, Ludwig, Sofus, Eja, Johann, and Vilads make and give time every week in the form of the Spiseklub, and I will always think of this book in connection with their friendship and food.Heiko read it all from cover to cover and did a lot of other things that made writing it possible and that make the future beyond it seem bright. Maibritt and Perry were and are just their lovely selves, good to live and think with, story makers and gift givers of the very best kind. © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 10 1/4/18 7:24 PM Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 11 1/4/18 7:24 PM Page xii is blank © 2018 The Johns Hopkins University Press UNCORRECTED PROOF Do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. All rights reserved. No portion of this may be reproduced or distributed without permission. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Lupton_Reading.indd 12 1/4/18 7:24 PM Introduction When Do We Read? There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot fnd Nor can his Watch Fiends fnd it, but the Industrious fnd This Moment & it multiply, & when it once is found It Renovates every Moment of the Day if rightly placed —Blake, Milton 35:42–45 The Shortness of Time This is a when book: When do we read? When do we read books, I mean, because I know when we read all the rest—the emails, the texts, the news, the status up- dates, the articles posted by friends, the lists we make of all the things we want to read.
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