Reading home cultures through books / / edited by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Marija Dalbello.

• TeilnehmendeR: Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti,; Dalbello, Marija,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Home Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (155 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This wide-ranging, comparative and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.

Table of Contents

Introduction: HOW TO READ HOME CULTURES THROUGH BOOKS?Marija Dalbello and Kirsti Salmi-NiklanderPART I: HISTORIESChapter 1: IMMIGRANTS BEING AT HOME IN LIBRARIES. HOW THE IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT THEIR HOME TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYMarija DalbelloChapter 2: LITERACY, ABC BOOKS AND PRIMARY READERS IN FINNISH IMMIGRANT HOMES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE U.S. Kirsti Salmi-NiklanderChapter 3: "A PARADE OF HOME." REPRESENTATIONS OF HOME IN GREEK AMERICAN COMMUNITY ALBUMSMaria KaliambouPART II: TRANSFORMATIONChapter 4: BOOKS AND THE CREATION OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS HOME IN AMERICAN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOMESTIC FICTIONJohanna McElweeChapter 5: SIMULATING DOMESTIC SPACE IN 1990S TECHNOCULTURE: TIMOTHY LEARY⁰́₉S VIRTUAL HOME LIBRARYJames A HodgesChapter 6: BOOKSHELVES CREATE A COZY ATMOSPHERE: AFFECTIVE AN EMOTIONAL MATERIALITY IN BOOKREADING PRACTICESAnna KajanderPART III: L⁰́₉ENVOIChapter 7: WRITING HOME CULTURES THROUGH BOOKS IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMICPatience and Fortitude in the First Person (Marija Dalbello)My Library as a Second Home (Kirsti Salmi-Niklander)Touching the Books (Maria Kaliambou)My Bookcase, My Anchor; or Some Reflections on My (Zoom) Background (Johanna McElwee)What We Lose When We Work From Home (James A. Hodges)Listening to Books through Lockdown (Anna Kajander)