The Edinburgh History of Reading : : Early Readers /

The Edinburgh History of Reading : : Early Readers / / Mary Hammond.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Hammond, Mary,
MitwirkendeR:
Acheson, Katherine,
Blom, Helwi,
Driver, Martha W.,
Feile Tomes, Maya,
Guibovich Pérez, Pedro M.,
Hammond, Mary,
Jagersma, Rindert,
Jung, Sandro,
Ott, Ashley R.,
Owens, W. R.,
Reboul, Juliette,
Reinking, David,
Steinberg, Glenn A.,
Tao, Liqing,
Umut Inan, Murat,
Vitale, Kyle Sebastian,
Wallis, Faith,
Wang, Fan,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Edinburgh History of Reading : EHR
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations 13 colour illustrations
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Table of 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

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