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Broadly speaking
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democratic address and the history of reading in nineteenth-century British literature
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Williams
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Alicia B.
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David S
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Rutgers University
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This dissertation argues that nineteenth-century British writers, in responding to the rise of mass literacy through conventions for addressing reading audiences, turned to literary form to imagine the public as a democratic concept. Associated above all with the diminutive appeal to the “dear reader,” these conventions are—when not bypassed as a gratuitous curiosity—often cast as a reactionary effort to contain the rise of a mass reading public in a singular, gentle figure. “Broadly Speaking” uncovers the remarkable range of devices for addressing readers in the periodical and the novel, including direct forms such as dear reader, networks of paratext, gothic frame tales and other structures for soliciting readers as interlocutors, and journalistic manifestos, among others. Focusing on the spatial dynamics organized by these conventions, I show how writers called on their ubiquity and pliability to situate audiences within an expanding reading public—a social body so sprawling that it was increasingly imagined in abstract terms. Because conventions of address appeal to unseen, uncountable readers, they proved uniquely able to implicate reading audiences in this shift towards abstraction. An abstractly drawn public is necessarily an inclusive public: across the diversity of these conventions, writers moved from evoking delimited and face-to-face relationships with readers to a theoretically egalitarian and limitless readership. In doing so, they used literary form to imagine a democratic public that accounted for all by counting none.
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Literatures in English
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English prose literature--19th century
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Literary form
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by Alicia Williams
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ETD doctoral
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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