Reading communities from salons to cyberspace / edited by DeNel Rehberg Sedo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rehberg Sedo, DeNel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Social aspects--History.

Books and reading.

Book clubs (Discussion groups)--History.

Book clubs (Discussion groups).

Group reading--History.

Group reading.

Reading promotion--History.

Reading promotion.

Books and reading--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Books and reading--Social aspects--United States--History.

Books and reading--Social aspects.

History.

United States.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Contents:

An introduction to reading communities : processes and formations / DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Reading in an epistolary community in eighteenth-century England / Betty Schellenberg

Nineteenth century reading groups in Britain and the community of the text : an experiment with Little Dorrit / Jenny Hartley

Reading across the empire : the National Home Reading Union abroad / Robert Snape

Utopian civic-mindedness : Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the great books enterprise / Daniel Born

I used to read anything that caught my eye, but

: cultural authority and intermediaries in a virtual young adult book club / DeNel Rehberg Sedo

The growth of reading groups as a feminine leisure pursuit : cultural democracy or dumbing down? / Anna Kiernan

Speaking subjects : developing identities in book groups / Linsey Howie

Leading questions : interpretive guidelines in contemporary popular reading culture / Anna S. Ivy

Marionettes and puppeteers? : the relationship between book club readers and publishers / Danielle Fuller, Claire Squires & DeNel Rehberg Sedo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230299887

0230299881

OCLC:

711988993