Book Clubs

Preface
Acknowledgments
ONE On the Social Nature of Reading
TWO Nineteenth-Century White Women's Reading Groups: Literary Inspiration and Social Reform
THREE Between Past and Present: Introductory Reflections on the Changing Nature of Women's Reading Groups
FOUR Exploring the Social World of Houston's Reading Groups
FIVE Book Selection: Negotiating Group Identity through Literature
SIX Conversing with Books, Fashioning Subjectivity, Dealing with Difference
SEVEN Reading Groups and the Challenge of Mass Communication and Marketing
EIGHT At the End
Notes
Bibliography
Index