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.
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 and Plates
Contributors
Introduction
Jonathan Rose
1. History, Politics and the Separate Spheres: Women’s Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America
Mark Towsey
2. Reading in Australian Prisons: An Exploration of Motivation
Mary Carroll and Jane Garner
3. Hawking Terror: Reading the French Revolutionary Press
Valerae Hurley
4. Hellfire and Cannibals: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Erotic Reading Groups and Their Manuscripts
Brian Watson
5. The ‘tactile Ba[b]ble under which the blind have hitherto groaned’: Dots, Lines and Literacy for the Blind in Nineteenth-Century North America
Joanna L. Pearce
6. British Cultures of Reading and Literary Appreciation in Nineteenth-Century Singapore
Porscha Fermanis
7. Moral Readership and Political Apprenticeship: Commentaries on English Education in India, 1875–1930
Pramod K. Nayar
8. The ‘Pleasure and Profit’ of Reading: Adolescents and Juvenile Popular Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
Trudi Abel
9. Trans Culture and the Circulation of Ideas
Lisa Z. Sigel
10. Reading History, History Reading in Modern Iranian Literature: Prison Writing as National Allegory or a World Literary Genre?
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
11. Beyond Mein Kampf: Bestsellers, Writers, Readers and the Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany
Christian Adam
12. Reading Spaces in Japanese-Occupied Indonesia: The Project to Create and Translate a Japanese-Language Library
Atsuhiko Wada, translated by Edward Mack
13. Just Send Zhivago: Reading Over, Under and Through the Iron Curtain
Jessica Brandt
14. African Readers as World Readers: UNESCO, Worldreader and the Perception of Reading
Ruth Bush
15. The Kindle Era: DIY Publishing and African-American Readers
Kinohi Nishikawa
16. ‘I loved the stories – they weren’t boring’: Narrative Gaps, the ‘Disnarrated’ and the Significance of Style in Prison Reading Groups
Patricia Canning
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Index of Methods and Sources
General Index
