Friday, January 3, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

Afternoon Session of AHA Affiliated Societies

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

Readers in American History: Questions of Evidence

Hilton, Conference Room 4F

Chair: Caroline Sloat, American Antiquarian Society

Papers: Forgotten Readers Reading Forgotten Books—Evidence
from Antebellum Sensation Fiction
Paul J. Erickson, University of Texas at Austin

"Right Here I See My Own Books": The Library in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbia Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Wayne A. Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Reading "About Matters of Real Importance": Sociological Studies of Reading in the 1930s
Catherine Turner, College Misericordia

The Uses of Evidence in the Search for Common Readers
Emily B. Todd, Westfield State College

Comment: Caroline Sloat

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