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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Hammond, Mary,
• MitwirkendeR: Attar, Karen,; Billington, Josie,; Coker, Cait,; Davis, Philip,; Eliot, Simon,; Ferguson, Christopher,; Fossey, Natalie,; Hammond, Mary,; Kriel, Lize,; Laugesen, Amanda,; McAleer, John,; Oestreicher, Cheryl,; Pawley, Christine,; Rubin, Joan Shelley,; Whavers, Angelle,; Wheeler, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh History of Reading : EHR
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century USEmploys a wide range of methodologiesShowcases new research including reading at night; readers as writers and critic...

Table of 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