The Edinburgh History of Reading : Subversive Readers

Jonathan Rose

ISBN 10: 1474461913 / ISBN 13: 9781474461917

Editore: Edinburgh University Press Apr 2020, 2020

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Neuware - Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesBringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring.Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists.Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University.Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at the University of Southampton.

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• Titolo: The Edinburgh History of Reading : Subversive Readers
• Editore: Edinburgh University Press Apr 2020
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474461913
• ISBN 13: 9781474461917
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 163 A x 25 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 163 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 726 grammi

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Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists.

Informazioni sugli autori

Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University, USA. He is the author of Readers’ Liberation (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor (Yale University Press, 2014), which won the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Prize, and The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919 (Ohio University Press, 1986). He is also the editor of The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001) and co-editor of A Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell, 2007) and British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1965 (Gale, 1991).

Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University, USA.

Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton.