'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'. So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she

A far cry from her wistful and introspective fiction, Woolf's essays on literature read as lively, droll, and conversational. These essays focus on famous liter

Textual Studies and the Common Reader collects eleven original essays by editors of literary texts and theorists concerned about the implications of what such e