"The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans;…
"What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive Internet…
"What happens if we separate the idea of 'the book' from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive Internet…
Introduction: Home Improvements -- How to Read -- Reading and Sociability -- Using Books -- Access to Reading -- Verse at Home -- Drama and Recital -- Fictional Worlds -- Piety and Knowledge -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index "A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an e…
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component o…
Priests and their books in late Anglo-Saxon England
"The first focused study on the cultural consequences of printing in Northern Song China, this book examines how the nascent print culture shaped the poetic theory and practice of Huang Tingjian and the Jiangxi School of Poetry he founded."
"The first focused study on the cultural consequences of printing in Northern Song China, this book examines how the nascent print culture shaped the poetic theory and practice of Huang Tingjian and the Jiangxi School of Poetry he founded."
What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the humanist ag…
"What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern', David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focusing on one central element of the humanist a…