Steel City Readers : : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955.

Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers' own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structur...

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Superior document:Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v.99
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Place / Publishing House:Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages)
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