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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Mary, Author.

Contributor:

Hammond, Mary, 1960- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Reading interests--History.

Reading interests.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages).

Other Title:

History of reading

Modern readers

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This volume reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages. It covers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century U.S. It also employs a wide range of methodologies and showcases new research including reading at night; readers as writers and critics; and 21st-century neuroscience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Plates and Tables

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 2 The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination: Picturing Africans as Readers

Chapter 3 Augustus De Morgan (1806–71), His Reading and His Library

Chapter 4 William Gladstone Reads His Contemporaries

Chapter 5 Reading While Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 6 The Empire Reads Back: Travel, Exploration and the British World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 7 ‘Knowledge of books’ and ‘Appreciation of literature’: Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era

Chapter 8 Papers, Posters and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War

Chapter 9 Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America’s Post-war Therapeutic Faith

Chapter 10 Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Chapter 11 Remaking the World Through Reading: Books, Readers and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945–70

Chapter 12 Amazing Stories, 1950–3: The Readers Behind the Covers

Chapter 13 The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the Present

Chapter 14 ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A Methodology for Literary Reading in the Twenty-First Century

Select Bibliography

Index of Methods and Sources

General Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-4613-2

1-4744-9604-0

1-4744-4612-4

OCLC:

1306537961