UID:
edocfu_9960170003102883
Format:
1 online resource (352 p.) :
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20 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations
ISBN:
9781474446129
Series Statement:
The Edinburgh History of Reading : EHR
Content:
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 as writers and critics; and 21st-century neuroscienceChallenges previous models with new data on travelling readers, images of readers, and digital reading and fan culturesModern 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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures, Plates and Tables --
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Contributors --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1 The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain --
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Chapter 2 The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination: Picturing Africans as Readers --
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Chapter 3 Augustus De Morgan (1806–71), His Reading and His Library --
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Chapter 4 William Gladstone Reads His Contemporaries --
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Chapter 5 Reading While Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century --
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Chapter 6 The Empire Reads Back: Travel, Exploration and the British World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --
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Chapter 7 ‘Knowledge of books’ and ‘Appreciation of literature’: Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era --
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Chapter 8 Papers, Posters and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War --
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Chapter 9 Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America’s Post-war Therapeutic Faith --
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Chapter 10 Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth-Century America --
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Chapter 11 Remaking the World Through Reading: Books, Readers and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945–70 --
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Chapter 12 Amazing Stories, 1950–3: The Readers Behind the Covers --
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Chapter 13 The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the Present --
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Chapter 14 ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A Methodology for Literary Reading in the Twenty-First Century --
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Select Bibliography --
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Index of Methods and Sources --
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General Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474446129
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474446129
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