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Book Title
Edinburgh History of Reading : Modern Readers
ISBN
9781474446112
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Publisher
Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-10
1474446116
ISBN-13
9781474446112
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038358034

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Edinburgh History of Reading : Modern Readers
Subject
General, Books & Reading, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Author
Jonathan Rose
Format
Hardcover

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Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
This varied collection of richly-detailed case studies has something to offer scholars in a wide range of fields., Taken together, the four volumes of The Edinburgh History of Reading constitute a fascinating compendium of research on readers and reading. [...] The volumes successfully demonstrate the diversity of their subjects' encounters with texts of all kinds, and highlight the importance of reading as both shared cultural practice and intensely individual experience., This varied collection of richly detailed case studies has something to offer scholars in a wide range of fields.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.48809
Table Of Content
List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Mary Hammond Chapter 1. The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Christopher Ferguson Chapter 2. The book as prop in the missionary imagination: picturing Africans as readers, Natalie Fossey and Lize Kriel Chapter 3. Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871), his Reading, and his Library, Karen Attar Chapter 4. Gladstone Reads his Contemporaries, Michael Wheeler Chapter 5. Reading while Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century, Mary Hammond Chapter 6. The empire reads back: Travel, exploration and the British World in the 18th and 19th Centuries, John McAleer Chapter 7. 'Knowledge of Books, Appreciation of Literature': Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era, Christine Pawley Chapter 8. Papers, Posters, and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War, Simon Eliot Chapter 9. Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Liebman and America's Post-war Therapeutic Faith, Cheryl Oestreicher Chapter 10. Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Joan Shelley Rubin Chapter 11. Remaking the World through Reading: Books, Readers, and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945 to 1970, Amanda Laugesen Chapter 12. Amazing Stories 1950-1953: The Readers Behind the Covers, Angelle Whavers Chapter 13. The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the present, Cait Coker Chapter 14. 'A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast' (Matthew Arnold, 'The Buried Life'): A methodology for literary reading in the 21st Century, Philip Davis and Josie Billington Bibliography of works cited and suggested further reading Index of Methods and Sources General Index
Synopsis
Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Covers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century USEmploys a wide range of methodologies Showcases new research including reading at night; readers as writers and critics; and 21st-century neuroscienceChallenges previous models with new data on travelling readers, images of readers, and digital reading and fan cultures Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda., Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda.

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