The History of Reading
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-48421-3
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 6th August 2010 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 352
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About the Book
The History of Reading offers an engaging, accessible overview from the rise of literacy through to the current trend of ‘book clubs’.
Divided into seven sections, each with a useful introduction, this Reader:
- summarises the main debates and perspectives shaping the field
- introduces key theorists such as Iser, Fish and Bakhtin
- surveys influential works and outlines important studies on mass reading
- focuses on specific communities such as Welsh miners, African American library users and Australian convicts
- looks at individual readers from a variety of countries, classes and historical periods
- considers current research in the history of reading.
Providing both a clear introduction to the history of the field and a taster of the breadth, diversity and vitality of current debates, this Reader is an essential resource for undergraduates, graduates, and researchers.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Defining the Field: What is the History of Reading? Section 2: Theorising the Reader Section 3: Researching and Using Literacy Section 4: Reading the Masses Section 5: Reading Communities Section 6: Individual Readers Section 7: New Directions and Methods in the History of Reading
About the Author(s)
Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in English at The Open University, where he is also Project Supervisor for The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930 (2007), of New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 (2007).
Rosalind Crone is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in literature at The Open University working on the AHRC-funded project, The Reading Experience Database (RED). She has published several articles on Victorian popular culture and is co-editor of New Perspectives in British Cultural History (2007).
Katie Halsey is lecturer at the University of Stirling. She has published several articles on nineteenth-century literary culture, is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the subject of conversation in the long eighteenth century, and writing a monograph about Jane Austen’s readers.