Reading Typographically

Geoffrey Turnovsky is Associate Professor of French at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime (2011).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Benefits of Reading1. Typeface: Disappearing Letters from the Romain du Roi to Didot2. Print Runs: Tender Maps in the Marketplace3. Format: Appropriations of the Book4. Editorial Labors: The Typography of Intimate Texts5. Punctuation Marks: Bringing Speech to Life on the Printed PageConclusion: Hybridity and Text TechnologiesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"This book will shift discussions of the public sphere, imagined communities, and the role of the public intellectual. In the looming controversies surrounding AI in education, this book makes the case against fetishizing one historically specific kind of reading."—George Hoffmann, University of Michigan "This is a fascinating study. Reading Typographically is an important contribution to our histories of reading, and essential for students and historians of reading."—Jennifer Richards, University of Cambridge "This provocative and exciting book considers how typographical devices were used for erasing the perception of the materiality of the text and create an unmediated relationship between the reader and characters' voices or the writer's heart. Important and innovative."—Roger Chartier, Collège de France "Brilliantly joining literary criticism with book history, this superbly researched study explores the emergence in the 18th century 'reading revolution' of a new kind of 'immersive' reading, abetted by new kinds of page layout and typography.... Highly recommended."—D. L. Patey, CHOICE