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.
Author(s): Jonathan Rose
Series: Edinburgh History of Reading
Edition: webready PDF
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
City: Edinburgh
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Contents
Figures, Plates and Tables
Contributors
Introduction
Jonathan Rose
1. British Commonplace Readers, 1706–1879
Jillian M. Hess
2. Reading in God’s Treasure-House: The Societies for Purchasing Books in Leadhills and Wanlockhead, 1741–1820
Margaret J. Joachim
3. The School Library and Childhood Reading in Lowland Scotland, 1750–1850
Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell
4. ‘Although ambitious we did not aspire to such dizzy heights’: Manuscript Magazines and Communal Reading Practices of London Literary Societies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Lauren Weiss
5. Space and Place in Nineteenth-Century Images of Women Readers
Amelia Yeates
6. Asian Classic Literature and the English General Reader, 1845–1915
Alexander Bubb
7. Readers and Reading During Russia’s Literacy Transition, 1850–1950: How Readers Shaped a Great Literature
Jeffrey Brooks
8. F. F. Pavlenkov’s Literacy Project: Popular Serials and Reading Rooms for the Russian Masses
Carol Ueland and Ludmilla A. Trigos
9. Formal and Informal Networks of Book Provision for Rural Children in Australia and New Zealand, 1900–60
Bronwyn Lowe
10. Putting Your Best Books Forward: A Historical and Psychological Look at the Presentation of Book Collections
Nicole Gonzalez and Nick Weir-Williams
11. In Search of the Chinese Common Reader: Vernacular Knowledge in an Age of New Media
Joan Judge
12. From ‘Bookworms’ to ‘Scholar-Farmers’: Tao Xingzhi and Changing Understandings of Literacy in the Chinese Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1923–34
Zach Smith
13. The Voice of the Reader: The Landscape of Online Book Discussion in the Netherlands, 1997–2016
Peter Boot
14. Novel Ideas: The Promotion of North American Book Club Books and the Creation of Their Readers
Samantha Rideout and DeNel Rehberg Sedo
15. Making the Story Real: Readers, Fans and the Novels of John Green
Jennifer Burek Pierce
Select Bibliography
Index of Methods and Sources
General Index
