Tag: Mrs. Henry Wood

In Part 1 of this post I described Nicholas Carr’s thesis about the cognitive differences between digital and print reading, and suggested that it would be worth troubling the category of “print reading” a bit further by considering the ways print has changed over time.  Below I detail the first part of my print reading experiment. For my own nineteenth-century reading experiment text I selected Mrs. Henry Wood’s East Lynne.  I selected it because I had never read it before

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