Section 1: Defining the field: What is the history of reading?
Section 2: Theorising the reader
Section 3: Researching and using literacy
Section 4: Reading the masses
Section 5: Reading communities
Section 6: Individual readers
Section 7: New directions and methods in the history of reading.
The history of reading. ISBN 9780415484213. Published by Routledge in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.