Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda.
Author(s): Mary Hammond
Series: Edinburgh History of Reading
Edition: webready PDF
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
City: Edinburgh
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Contents
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Contributors
Introduction
Mary Hammond
1. The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Christopher Ferguson
2. The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination: Picturing Africans as Readers
Natalie Fossey and Lize Kriel
3. Augustus De Morgan (1806–71), His Reading and His Library
Karen Attar
4. William Gladstone Reads His Contemporaries
Michael Wheeler
5. Reading While Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century
Mary Hammond
6. The Empire Reads Back: Travel, Exploration and the British World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
John McAleer
7. ‘Knowledge of books’ and ‘Appreciation of literature’: Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era
Christine Pawley
8. Papers, Posters and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War
Simon Eliot
9. Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America’s Post-war Therapeutic Faith
Cheryl Oestreicher
10. Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
Joan Shelley Rubin
11. Remaking the World Through Reading: Books, Readers and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945–70
Amanda Laugesen
12. Amazing Stories, 1950–3: The Readers Behind the Covers
Angelle Whavers
13. The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the Present
Cait Coker
14. ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A Methodology for Literary Reading in the Twenty-First Century
Philip Davis and Josie Billington
Select Bibliography
Index of Methods and Sources
General Index
