The history of reading.

The history of reading. Volume 1, International perspectives, c.1500-1990 / edited by Shafquat Towheed & W.R. Owens.

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How do we accurately recover the diverse engagement of readers with texts across time and in widely differing societies across the world? This volume brings together a representative sample of original, evidence based research in the History of Reading. Chapters cover individual readers, reading com...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Towheed, Shafquat, 1973-, Owens, W. R.
Other title:International perspectives, c.1500-1990.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Books and reading > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; S.Eliot
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction; S.Towheed & W. R.Owens
  • PART I: READERS IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WORLD
  • Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances; J.Ford
  • Modes of Bible Reading in Early Modern England; W.R.Owens
  • PART II: READERS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTIC WORLD
  • Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America; R.Bell
  • Reconstructing Reading Vogues in the Old South: Borrowings from the Charleston Library Society, 1811-1817; I.Lehuu
  • PART III: READERS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY
  • Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: Antebellum 'Common' Readers; B.Hochman
  • Reading in Polish and National Identity in Nineteenth-century Silesia; I.Dobosiewicz & L.Piasecka
  • Reading Science: Evidence from the Career of Edwin Gilpin, Mining Engineer; L.J.Duggan & B.H.MacDonald
  • Reading in an Age of Censorship: The Case of Catholic Germany, 1800-1914; J.T. Zalar
  • PART IV: READERS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY
  • Understanding Children as Readers: Librarians' Anecdotes and Surveys in the United States from 1890 to 1930; K.McDowell
  • Letters to a Daughter: An Archive of Middle-Class Reading in New Zealand, c.1872-1932; S.Liebich
  • Books Behind Bars: Mahatma Gandhi's Community of Captive Readers; I.Desai
  • Remembering Reading: Memory, Books, and Reading in South Africa's Apartheid Prisons, 1956-90; A.L.Dick.

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