‘Novel Reading and Insanity': Nineteenth-Century Quaker Fiction Reading Practices

Standard histories of nineteenth-century Quakerism note that fiction reading was prohibited or strongly discouraged in the Religious Society of Friends, and multiple public documents from the period indicate that pronouncements against reading fiction, especially for young people, were ubiquitous un...

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Main Author: Hood, James W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Liverpool University Press [2018]
In: Quaker studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-24
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBF British Isles
KDG Free church
Further subjects:B Friends Book Society of Birmingham
B reading societies
B fiction reading
B reading practices
B Manchester Friends Institute
B Information Technology
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