Abstract:Scholars have struggled to recover how lower-class readers responded to the mountains of cheap religious literature produced for them in the nineteenth century. A careful reading of correspondence from tract distributors published in the Tract Magazine, however, uncovers a rich and surprising engagement between poor readers and religious tracts. Some plebeian readers rejected tracts or used them for unintended purposes. Other poor readers used tracts to create and influence communal relationships, establish their own respectability, address their miseries, and collaborate with distributors in crafting their own pious life narratives for a broad audience.

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“令人欣慰的见证”：《道》杂志上平民读​​者的心声

摘要：学者们一直在努力恢复下层读者对 19 世纪为他们制作的大量廉价宗教文学的反应。然而，仔细阅读出版在《小册子》杂志上的小册子发行商的信件，会发现贫穷的读者和宗教小册子之间有着丰富而令人惊讶的互动。一些平民读者拒绝小册子或将它们用于非预期目的。其他贫穷的读者使用小册子来创造和影响公共关系，建立自己的受人尊敬的地位，解决他们的苦难，并与分销商合作，为广大受众打造自己的虔诚生活叙事。