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Discourse pragmatics in Xingu Term paper by Ronald Borst For 19th Century American Literature G. Moore 2nd semester UVA June 2003 Ronald Borst Jan v. Duivenvoordestraat 183 1067 MT Amsterdam Studentnr. 9187944 Introduction The Dutch scholar Lizet Duyvendak researched a reading society founded in 1894 by twelve ladies of the higher classes in The Hague for her thesis. This so-called 'Dames-leesmuseum' (Ladies' reading museum) predated the, until then, non-existing Public Library. These museums, which were independently bought or rented mansions, once established, offered the members an unlimited freedom in their choice of books, which choice was formerly determined by their fathers and husbands, who considered the work of for instance Emile Zola and all other naturalistic and realistic novels unsuitable. Soon many unsuitable books found their way into the collection which steadily rose to a number of 40.000 volumes. "Door lezen wijder horizont" it says on the ex-libris of this reading society, which roughly translates as 'through reading a broader horizon'....

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