Modern Readers (Edinburgh History of Reading) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474494862 ISBN 13: 9781474494861

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages
Covers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century USEmploys a wide range of methodologies Showcases new research including reading at night; readers as writers and critics; and 21st-century neuroscienceChallenges previous models with new data on travelling readers, images of readers, and digital reading and fan cultures

Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda.

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Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton. She is a senior member of the management group of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘The Reading Experience Database, 1800-1945’. She is the author of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012 (Ashgate, 2015) and Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Ashgate, 2006). She is also the co-editor of three books, including, Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book Hstory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesBringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring.Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda.Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at the University of Southampton.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474494862
• ISBN 13: 9781474494861
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Hammond Mary
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