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Jane Austen is among our all-time faves, and today, on her 250th birthday, we're celebrating with a press-spanning reading list. The books about Jane and myriad facets of her work, the journal articles that investigate and expand on her influence, and some...

One of the claims I make in Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century is that the feeling of not having time to read is almost as old as books themselves. We tend to imagine that when books were new media people struggled to put them down, a bit...