The Edinburgh History of Reading : : Subversive Readers /

The Edinburgh History of Reading : : Subversive Readers / / Jonathan Rose.

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers pornography and the origins of the transgender movementExplores everyday reading in Nazi GermanyAnalyses prison readingExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nationsSubversive Readers explores the strategi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Rose, Jonathan,
MitwirkendeR:
Abel, Trudi,
Adam, Christian,
Brandt, Jessica,
Bush, Ruth,
Canning, Patricia,
Carroll, Mary,
Fakhrkonandeh, Alireza,
Fermanis, Porscha,
Garner, Jane,
Hurley, Valerae,
Mack, Edward,
Nayar, Pramod K.,
Nishikawa, Kinohi,
Pearce, Joanna L.,
Rose, Jonathan,
Sigel, Lisa Z.,
Towsey, Mark,
Wada, Atsuhiko,
Watson, Brian M.,
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 (400 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Plates
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 History, Politics and the Separate Spheres: Women’s Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America
  • 2 Reading in Australian Prisons: An Exploration of Motivation
  • 3 Hawking Terror: Reading the French Revolutionary Press
  • 4 Hellfire and Cannibals: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Erotic Reading Groups and Their Manuscripts
  • 5 The ‘tactile Ba[b]ble under which the blind have hitherto groaned’: Dots, Lines and Literacy for the Blind in Nineteenth-Century North America
  • 6 British Cultures of Reading and Literary Appreciation in Nineteenth-Century Singapore
  • 7 Moral Readership and Political Apprenticeship: Commentaries on English Education in India, 1875–1930
  • 8 The ‘Pleasure and Profit’ of Reading: Adolescents and Juvenile Popular Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
  • 9 Trans Culture and the Circulation of Ideas
  • 10 Reading History, History Reading in Modern Iranian Literature: Prison Writing as National Allegory or a World Literary Genre?
  • 11 Beyond Mein Kampf: Bestsellers, Writers, Readers and the Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany
  • 12 Reading Spaces in Japanese-Occupied Indonesia: The Project to Create and Translate a Japanese-Language Library
  • 13 Just Send Zhivago: Reading Over, Under and Through the Iron Curtain
  • 14 African Readers as World Readers: UNESCO, Worldreader and the Perception of Reading
  • 15 The Kindle Era: DIY Publishing and African-American Readers
  • 16 ‘I loved the stories – they weren’t boring’: Narrative Gaps, the ‘Disnarrated’ and the Significance of Style in Prison Reading Groups
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index of Methods and Sources
  • General Index

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