Issue 56, May 2014

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Interview

J. Hillis Miller 
‘You see you ask an innocent question and you’ve got a long answer’: J. Hillis Miller in discussion with Éamonn Dunne, Michael O’Rourke, Martin McQuillan, Dragan Kujundžić, Graham Allen and Nicholas Royle

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Special Issue: Revealing the Reader

Anna Poletti and Patrick Spedding
Introduction: Revealing the Reader

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Part 1: Reading Histories

Susan K. Martin
Tracking Reading in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne Diaries

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Amanda Laugesen
Journeys in Reading in Wartime: Some Australian Soldiers’ Reading Experiences in the First World War

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Patrick Spedding
Eliza Haywood’s Eighteenth-Century Readers in Pennsylvania and New York

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Patrick Spedding
Eliza Haywood’s Eighteenth-Century Readers: Appendixes

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Part 2: Reading Communities

Robert Clarke and Marguerite Nolan
Book Clubs and Reconciliation: A Pilot Study on Book Clubs Reading the ‘Fictions of Reconciliation’

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Tully Barnett
Social Reading: The Kindle’s Social Highlighting Function and Emerging Reading Practices

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Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo 
Reproducing ‘the Wow Factor’?: Negotiating the Values of Reading through One Book, One Community Events

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Part 3: Reading Futures

Ali Alizadeh 
The Subject Supposed to Read: the Case against the E-reader

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Book Reviews

Timothy Steains
Review of The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race by Alison Ravenscroft

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Lydia Saleh Rofail
Review of New Vampire Cinema by Ken Gelder, and Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro

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Jason Archbold
Review of Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov

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