Introduction, Bonnie Gunzenhauser; Chapter 1 On the Use of Anecdotal Evidence in Reception Study and the History of Reading, Daniel Allington; Chapter 2 Examining the Evidence of Reading: Three Examples from the Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945, Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey, Shafquat Towheed; Chapter 3 Historical Dictionaries and the History of Reading, Michael Adams; Chapter 4 Reading and the Visual Dimensions of the Book: The Popular Cold War Fictions of Helen Macinnes, Nicole Matthews; Chapter 5 The Work of Abridgements: Readers, Editors and Expectations, Jennifer Snead; Chapter 6 Women Reading Shakespeare in the Outpost: Rural Reading Groups, Literary Culture and Civic Life in America, Katherine Scheil; Chapter 7 Turning Libraries into Public Works: Funding Arguments on the Local Level in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania, Catherine Turner; Chapter 8 Explicating Explications: Researching Contemporary Reading, Anouk Lang;
