The History of Reading

ISBN-13: 9780415484206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 480 str.

Shafquat Towheed;Rosalind Crone;Katie Halsey

Opis

'The History of Reading' offers an accessible overview of this developing discipline, from the rise of literacy through to the current trend of book clubs.

Spis treści

Section 1: Defining the Field: What is the History of Reading?  Section 2: Theorising the Reader  Section 3: Researching and Using Literacy  Section 4: Reading the Masses  Section 5: Reading Communities  Section 6: Individual Readers  Section 7: New Directions and Methods in the History of Reading

O autorze

Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in English at The Open University, where he is also Project Supervisor for The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930 (2007), of New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 (2007). Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University, where she is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). She has published widely on popular culture, crime and literacy in the nineteenth-century, and is co-editor of New Perspectives in British Cultural History (2007). Katie Halsey is lecturer at the University of Stirling. She has published several articles on nineteenth-century literary culture, is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the subject of conversation in the long eighteenth century, and writing a monograph about Jane Austen’s readers.