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Edinburgh History of Reading Modern Readers

Hammond Mary
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474494861
Publisert
2022-03-03
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
Hammond Mary

Om bidragsyterne

Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton. She is a senior member of the management group of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘The Reading Experience Database, 1800-1945’. She is the author of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012 (Ashgate, 2015) and Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Ashgate, 2006). She is also the co-editor of three books, including, Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book Hstory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Edinburgh History of Reading Modern Readers

Hammond Mary
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk
Hammond Mary
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk
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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.

- Katherine Halsey, University of Stirling, Library & Information History

This varied collection of richly detailed case studies has something to offer scholars in a wide range of fields.

- Leah Price, Distinguished Professor & Director of Rutgers Book Initiative,

Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring. 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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Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century.
List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: 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 readingIndex of Methods and SourcesGeneral Index
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Covers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century US

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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.

- Katherine Halsey, University of Stirling, Library & Information History

This varied collection of richly detailed case studies has something to offer scholars in a wide range of fields.

- Leah Price, Distinguished Professor & Director of Rutgers Book Initiative,

Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring. 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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Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century.
List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: 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 readingIndex of Methods and SourcesGeneral Index
Les mer
Covers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century US

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474494861
Publisert
2022-03-03
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
Hammond Mary

Om bidragsyterne

Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton. She is a senior member of the management group of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘The Reading Experience Database, 1800-1945’. She is the author of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012 (Ashgate, 2015) and Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Ashgate, 2006). She is also the co-editor of three books, including, Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book Hstory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

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