1. Leah Price, How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), pp. 207
2. Ganett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
3. The classic account is Wolfgang Iser, The Implied Reader (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974).
4. W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ed. John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008), p. 8.
5. Nicholas Dames, The Physiology of Reading: Reading, Neural Science and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 105