KALEIDOSCOPIC THEMES OF ANOTHER CENTURY
KALEIDOSCOPIC THEMES OF ANOTHER CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: In the digital age we take for granted all the good things that have contributed to this advancement. We forget the gradual steps taken by mankind. During The Enlightenment, the phenomenon of commonplace books and the act of reading has a life of its own, especially in Georgian England. David Allan's volume, ”Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England”, is a compulsory study for anyone who wishes to understand the contribution of unknown readers to the bigger picture of the epoch. At the same time, the book dares to retheorize the foundation of the first manifestations of individual reading as a mass(ive) phenomenon. Nowadays, we put little excerpts on social media as a way to represent us; this parallels what our predecessors used to do with commonplace books. Our contemporary ease to delve into megabytes of information and to let the knowledge flourish started with the moment of another century when more peers of a generation enjoyed reading and let the transformative power of books simply act upon them.

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