The Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers
by Rubin, Joan Shelley, Davis, Philip, McAleer, John, Hammond, Mary, Hammond, Mary, Eliot, Simon, Wheeler, Michael, Billington, Josie, Coker, Cait, Attar, Karen, Ferguson, Christopher, Fossey, Natalie, Kriel, Lize, Laugesen, Amanda, Oestreicher, Cheryl, Pawley, Christine, Whavers, Angelle
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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century USEmploys a wide range of methodologiesShowcases new research including reading at night; 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-ce…
In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconf…
"This volume is a book in literary studies and reader response. It makes the case for keeping old books as items of value: as cultural documents"
"In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly recon…
In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer reads nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left behind in their books and defends the value of the physical, circulating collections of nineteenth-century volumes in academic libraries.
Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in E…
The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers
by Nayar, Pramod K., Mack, Edward, Towsey, Mark, Rose, Jonathan, Rose, Jonathan, Bush, Ruth, Abel, Trudi, Adam, Christian, Brandt, Jessica, Canning, Patricia, Carroll, Mary, Fakhrkonandeh, Alireza, Fermanis, Porscha, Garner, Jane, Hurley, Valerae, Nishikawa, Kinohi, Pearce, Joanna L., Sigel, Lisa Z., Wada, Atsuhiko, Watson, Brian M.
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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers pornography and the origins of the transgender movementExplores everyday reading in Nazi GermanyAnalyses prison readingExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nationsSubversive Readers …
Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in E…
The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers
by Judge, Joan, Bubb, Alexander, Rose, Jonathan, Rose, Jonathan, Boot, Peter, Branagh-Miscampbell, Maxine, Brooks, Jeffrey, Gonzalez, Nicole, Hess, Jillian M., Joachim, Margaret J., Lowe, Bronwyn, Pierce, Jennifer Burek, Rideout, Samantha, Sedo, DeNel Rehberg, Smith, Zach, Trigos, Ludmilla A., Ueland, Carol, Weir-Williams, Nick, Weiss, Lauren, Yeates, Amelia
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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesShows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and ChinaExplores how digital media has transformed literary criticisPortrays everyday reading in artIncludes reading across national…
A fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this…
"This book explores the encounter between verbal and visual forms through a material aesthetic in which perception is shaped by the tangible qualities of the media. The contributors map a new critical approach in which typography and design play an important role as well as the …
Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing n…
