The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers

Jonathan Rose,Mary Hammond

ISBN 10: 1474461883 / ISBN 13: 9781474461887

Published by Edinburgh University Press -, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press -
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474461883
• ISBN 13: 9781474461887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages
Shows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and ChinaExplores how digital media has transformed literary criticismPortrays everyday reading in art Includes reading across national and cultural lines
Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read, and how books changed their lives.

About the Author

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).