The Edinburgh history of reading: early readers / edited by Mary Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Mary, editor.

Contributor:

Hammond, Mary, editor.

Series:

The Edinburgh History of Reading

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--China--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Summary:

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers reading practices from China in the 6th century BCE to Britain in the 18th centuryEmploys a range of methodologies from close textual analysis to quantitative data on book ownershipExamines a wide range of texts and ways of reading them from English poetry and funeral elegies to translated books in PeruChallenges period-based models of readership historyEarly Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has been lost. It begins by investigating what a close analysis of extant texts from 6th-century BCE China can tell us about contemporary reading practices, explores the reading of medieval European women and their male medical practitioner counterparts, traces readers across New Spain, Peru, the Ottoman Empire and the Iberian world between 1500 and 1800, and ends with an analysis of the surprisingly enduring practice of reading aloud.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures, Plates and Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction

1 The Move Towards Literacy Among Confucian Scholars in Ancient China

2 Reading for Rule: Emperor Taizong of Tang and Qunshu zhiyao

3 Medieval Women Writers and What They Read, c. 1100 – c. 1500

4 Mi ritrovai per un poema sacro. The Ideological Reading Subject in Dante’s Inferno 5

5 The Unreadable Book of Margery Kempe

6 Between Reading and Doing: The Case of Medieval Manuscript Books of Practical Medicine

7 Visual Form and Reading Communities: The Example of Early Modern Broadside Elegies

8 Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700

9 Books, Readers and Reading Experiences in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

10 ‘Read it o’re and o’re’: Eikon Basilike and Sacramental Reading in the Seventeenth Century

11 Plurilingual Poetry and the Hinterland of Intertextuality: Europeanising Reading Culture in the Early Modern Iberian World

12 Printed Private Library Catalogues as a Source for the History of Reading in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe

13 Reading, Visual Literacy and the Illustrated Literary Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain

14 Reading Aloud, Past and Present

Select Bibliography

Index of Methods and Sources

General Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-4610-8

9781474446105

9781474446099

9781474494854

OCLC:

1306537935