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10. Bookmarks, edited and introduced by Frederic Raphael (London, 1975).
11. Maurice Keen, English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348–1500 (London, 1990).
12. Quoted in Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr., Daily Living in the Twelfth Century (Madison, Wisc., 1952).
13. Henry Miller, The Books in My Life (New York, 1952).
14. Marcel Proust, Du Côté de chez Swann (Paris, 1913).
15. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Critiques et portraits littéraires (Paris, 1836–39).
16. Quoted in N.I. White, Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols. (London, 1947).
17. Marguerite Duras, interview in Le Magazine littéraire 158, Paris, March 1980.
18. Marcel Proust, Journées de lecture, ed. Alain Coelho (Paris, 1993).
19. Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé (Paris, 1927).
20. Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Proem”, The Book of the Duchesse, 44–51, in Chaucer: Complete Works, ed.
Walter W. Skeat (Oxford, 1973).
21. Josef Skvorecky, “The Pleasures of the Freedom to Read”, in Anteus, No. 59, Tangier, London & New
York, Autumn 1987.
22. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood (New York, 1987).
23. Hollis S. Barker, Furniture in the Ancient World (London, 1966).
24. Jerôme Carcopino, La Vie quotidienne à Rome à l’apogée de l’empire (Paris, 1939).
25. Petronius, The Satyricon, trans. William Arrowsmith (Ann Arbor, 1959).
26. Byzantine Books and Bookmen (Washington, 1975).
27. Pascal Dibie, Ethnologie de la chambre à coucher (Paris, 1987).
28. C. Gray & M. Gray, The Bed (Philadelphia, 1946).
29. Keen, English Society in the Later Middle Ages.
30. Margaret Wade Labarge, A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life (London, 1986).
31. Eileen Harris, Going to Bed (London, 1981).
32. G. Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture (London, 1963).
33. Jean-Baptiste De la Salle, Les Régles de la bienséance de la civilité chrétienne (Paris, 1703).
34. Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants (Dublin, 1746).
35. Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 (New York, 1936).
36. Antoine de Courtin, Nouveau Traité de la civilité qui se pratique en France parmi les honnestes gens
(Paris, 1672).
37. Mrs. Haweis, The Art of Housekeeping (London, 1889), quoted in Asa Briggs, Victorian Things
(Chicago, 1988).

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38. Leigh Hunt, Men, Women and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs (London,
1891).
39. Cynthia Ozick, “Justice (Again) to Edith Wharton”, in Art & Ardor (New York, 1983).
40. R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton: A Biography (New York, 1975), quoted ibid.
41. Colette, Lettres à Marguerite Moreno (Paris, 1959).
42. Pichois & Vincenette, Album Colette.
43. Germaine Beaumont & André Parinaud, Colette par elle-même (Paris, 1960).
METAPHORS OF READING
1. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, 1856, in The Complete Poems, ed. Francis Murphy
(London, 1975).
2. Ibid.
3. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, 1860, ibid.
4. Goethe, “Sendscreiben”, quoted in E.R. Curtius, Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter
(Berne, 1948).
5. Walt Whitman, “Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher”, in Leaves of Grass, 1892, in The Complete Poems.
6. Ezra Pound, Personae (New York, 1926).
7. Walt Whitman, “Inscriptions”, in Leaves of Grass, 1881, in The Complete Poems.
8. Quoted in Philip Callow, Walt Whitman: From Noon to Starry Night (London, 1992).
9. Walt Whitman, “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads”, introduction to November Boughs, 1888, in