The Edinburgh history of reading : common readers / edited by Jonathan Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Jonathan, Author.

Contributor:

Rose, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

The Edinburgh History of Reading

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--England--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesShows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and ChinaExplores how digital media has transformed literary criticisPortrays everyday reading in artIncludes reading across national and cultural linesCommon Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read, and how books changed their lives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Plates and Tables

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 British Commonplace Readers, 1706–1879

Chapter 2 Reading in God’s Treasure-House: The Societies for Purchasing Books in Leadhills and Wanlockhead, 1741–1820

Chapter 3 The School Library and Childhood Reading in Lowland Scotland, 1750–1850

Chapter 4 ‘Although ambitious we did not aspire to such dizzy heights’: Manuscript Magazines and Communal Reading Practices of London Literary Societies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 5 Space and Place in Nineteenth-Century Images of Women Readers

Chapter 6 Asian Classic Literature and the English General Reader, 1845–1915

Chapter 7 Readers and Reading During Russia’s Literacy Transition, 1850–1950: How Readers Shaped a Great Literature

Chapter 8 F. F. Pavlenkov’s Literacy Project: Popular Serials and Reading Rooms for the Russian Masses

Chapter 9 Formal and Informal Networks of Book Provision for Rural Children in Australia and New Zealand, 1900–60

Chapter 10 Putting Your Best Books Forward: A Historical and Psychological Look at the Presentation of Book Collections

Chapter 11 In Search of the Chinese Common Reader: Vernacular Knowledge in an Age of New Media

Chapter 12 From ‘Bookworms’ to ‘Scholar-Farmers’: Tao Xingzhi and Changing Understandings of Literacy in the Chinese Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1923–34

Chapter 13 The Voice of the Reader: The Landscape of Online Book Discussion in the Netherlands, 1997–2016

Chapter 14 Novel Ideas: The Promotion of North American Book Club Books and the Creation of Their Readers

Chapter 15 Making the Story Real: Readers, Fans and the Novels of John Green

Select Bibliography

Index of Methods and Sources

General Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6190-5

1-4744-6189-1

OCLC:

1306539439