The history of reading / edited by Shafquat Towheed and W. R. Owens ; foreword by Simon Eliot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Towheed, Shafquat, 1973-

Owens, W. R.

Halsey, Katie

Crone, Rosalind

University of London. Institute of English Studies.

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

History.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan in association with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2011.

Summary:

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 communities or groups and their engagement with texts in societies ranging from nineteenth-century Poland and Germany, apartheid-era South Africa, antebellum America, colonial Canada, India and New Zealand, and early modern England. Deliberately juxtaposing research on different countries, linguistic communities and historical periods, The History of Reading, Vol. 7: International Perspectives, c. l500-1990 demonstrates the challenges and rewards of undertaking empirical research on reading practices and asks whether readers' responses to texts are always entirely conditioned by their historical, socio-economic or political circumstances. A wide-ranging critical introduction provides a succinct overview of evidence-based approaches to the history of reading, and reminds us that the task of recovering the evidence of readers through history and across the world is stilt in its infancy. Book jacket.

Contents:

V. 1. International perspectives, c.1500-1990 / edited by Shafquat Towheed and W.R. Owens ; foreword by Simon Eliot

v. 2. Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950 / edited by Katie Halsey and W.R. Owens ; foreword by Simon Eliot

- v. 3. Methods, strategies, tactics / edited by Rosalind Crone and Shafquat Towheed ; foreword by Simon Eliot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Contains:

International perspectives, c.1500-1990

Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950.

Methods, strategies, tactics.

ISBN:

9780230319288

0230319289

9780230247512

0230247512

9780230247550

0230247555

9780230247567

0230247563

OCLC:

754151199

Publisher Number:

99946336534