The Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers - Hardcover

 
9781474446112: The Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1474446116 ISBN 13: 9781474446112
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2020

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).



Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton.

Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University, USA.

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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.

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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.

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Verlag
EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474446116
ISBN 13 
9781474446112
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Herausgeber
Hammond Mary, Rose Jonathan
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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