The Edinburgh History of Reading
Modern Readers
Published on 5. May 2020
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-4744-4611-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 InitiativeMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
20 black and white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4611-2 (9781474446112)
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04/2020
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Person
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).
Content
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
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