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h abolitionism, 20, 106, 111, 119–23, 186–87n18, 187n26, 188n41 The Advocate, ix–x affect, 16, 55–58, 68, 77, 81–84, 87–88, 94, 101, 103–4, 107–8, 159n18, 177n131, 179n14 Albanese, Catherine, 62 Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women, 87 Alcott, William, 23, 27, 92–93 Alexander, Jacqui, 169n95 Amsler, Mark, 11 Anderson, Benedict, ix, 15 apocalyptic discourse, 25–26, 30–33, 37, 39, 42, 54, 99, 148–49 Atkinson, W. P., 25–26, 35, 60, 64 Augst, Thomas, 37 Austin, Mary, 42–50, 169n100; Earth Horizon, 42–50 Austin, William, 114–15 authorship, xii–xiii, 20–21, 52, 54, 59–60, 68–69, 71, 74–77, 84–89, 94–97, 99–100, 106–12, 122, 125, 132, 136–39, 176n94, 177n123, 183n51, 185n7, 186n16 Bacon, Francis, 55–56 Baker, Houston, 184n2 Barnum, P. T., 96, 183n58 Barrett, Lindon, 185n8 Barrett, Martha Osborne, 60 Barthes, Roland, 77–78, 90, 177n123, 181n37 Baym, Nina, 35, 177n120 Beardsley, Monroe C., 76 Beecher, Henry Ward, 34 Bellis, Peter J., 176n94 Benjamin, Walter, 48, 162n52 Bennett, Andrew, 76 Bernheimer, Charles, 75 Bersani, Leo, 18, 46, 50, 142, 170n106, 193n30 Bible, 51, 59–60, 81, 113, 131–32, 139–47, 173nn44, 47, 193nn31, 32 Birkerts, Sven, 149–50, 152 Blanchot, Maurice, 47 Bledstein, Burton J., 162n58 Bleich, David, 16 Blodgett, Harriet, 192n26 Bloom, Harold, 77 body image, 11–14 book: as dangerous, 5, 25, 33, 35, 50, 68–69, 74–75, 90–91, 117–18, 129–31, 139, 154, 193n32; as friend, 1–2, 19, 52–54, 58, 60, 68, 83–85, 101, 103, 107, 154, 171n16, 175n75, 179nn6, 7, 180n16, 194–95n29; as living object, 51–52, 107, 156, 160n25, 173n53; as material object, 4, 7–8, 11–14, 25, 27, 31, 35, 48, 51, 53, 62, 64, 74–75, 79–81, 132–34, 139–43, 151–52, 160n25, 162nn51, 52, 179n7; as prosthetic, 13, 141; reception of, 14, 16–17, 19–20, 22, 48, 74–79, 86–91, 96, 104–5, 164n75, 177n120, 183n51. See also technology, of book Bouson, J. Brooks, 35, 76 Braithwaite, J. B., 26–27, 73–74 Brodhead, Richard, 112, 125, 192n29 Brooks, Cleanth, 76 Brown, Bill, 151 Brown, Gillian, 181n25 Brown, Matthew, 160n25 Brown, Richard D., 175n76 Bryant, John, 180n16 Burke, Edmund, 110 Burke, Kenneth, 157n2 (preface) Carr, Nicholas, 148–49 Case, Luella J. B., 1–3, 7 Casper, Scott E., 165n10, 173n55 Index 220 Index Cavallo, Guglielmo, 16, 77 Channing, William Ellory, 54, 64 Chapin, Edwin Hubbell, 25, 30–35, 51, 59, 63–67, 175n75; The Crown of Thorns, 63–67 Chartier, Roger, 16, 77 Child, Lydia Maria, 17–18, 36, 51–53 children, 43, 45–46, 63, 91, 95, 108–9, 116–17, 130, 139, 141, 144, 148, 158n11, 183n59, 188n38, 191nn13, 22 Christianity, x, 4, 25, 42, 51, 59–60, 63–64, 66, 68, 83–84, 97, 122–23, 138–47, 173n44, 193n32. See also Bible Clarke, James Freeman, 27–28, 42 Clewell, Tammy, 159n14 Codrescu, Andre, 153 cognitive science, 9–11, 59, 148 Cohen, Leah Hager, 153–54 communion, 2, 10, 14, 46–50, 54, 60–62, 74, 81–82, 86, 98–100, 102–3, 116, 121–22, 136, 138, 143, 154, 156, 157n2 (introduction ), 159n19, 179n6, 184n73. See also reading conduct manuals, 19, 23, 25–26, 32, 38, 49, 127–29, 193n32. See also instrumentalist rhetoric; reading manuals Connor, Steven, 114, 116 consubstantiality, x, 2, 83–84, 101, 116, 156, 157n2 consumption, 23–24, 26, 30–34, 40, 42, 51, 83, 97, 121–22, 131, 134, 140, 149, 152, 158n10, 167nn49, 51, 182n43. See also digestion Cook, Joseph, 72–74;“How to Preserve the Results of Home Reading,” 72–73 corporeality, ix–xi, 2–3, 7–14, 20–21, 31, 34, 48–49, 56, 64, 66, 69, 79, 83–86, 99–100, 102, 105–10, 114–16, 118–19, 123, 125–29, 133, 135–36, 141–45, 151, 155, 160nn25, 26, 28, 162n52, 174n69, 185n8, 193n30 Crain, Patricia, 113, 193n31 Creech, James, 101 Culley, Margo, 192n26 Cummins, Maria, The Lamplighter, 43, 93 Darnton, Robert, 162n57 Davis, Natalie Zemon, 14 death, xii, 4, 18–20, 50–54, 61, 63–67, 70–72, 74–82, 101–2, 125, 145–46, 163n70; death of the author, 19–20, 54, 64–65, 74–80, 174n73, 175n75, 177n123 de Certeau, Michel, 77 Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François, 73 Dennett, Andrea Stulman, 183n58 desire, ix, 1–2, 5, 18, 92, 100–1, 110, 117, 121–22, 124, 135–37, 139, 166n31, 193n30 Dickson, Preston J., 186n13...
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