紀錄類型: |
書目-語言資料,印刷品
: Monograph/item
|
杜威分類號: |
028/.9 |
書名/作者: |
The history of reading./ edited by Shafquat Towheed & W.R. Owens. |
其他題名: |
International perspectives, c.1500-1990 |
其他作者: |
Towheed, Shafquat, |
出版者: |
New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011. |
面頁冊數: |
1 online resource |
附註: |
"In association with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London." |
標題: |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading |
標題: |
Books and reading - History. |
ISBN: |
9780230316782 (electronic bk.) |
ISBN: |
0230316786 (electronic bk.) |
書目註: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
內容註: |
List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword; S.Eliot -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; S.Towheed & W. R.Owens -- PART I: READERS IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WORLD -- Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances; J.Ford -- Modes of Bible Reading in Early Modern England; W.R.Owens -- PART II: READERS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTIC WORLD -- Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America; R.Bell -- Reconstructing Reading Vogues in the Old South: Borrowings from the Charleston Library Society, 1811-1817; I.Lehuu -- PART III: READERS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY -- Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: Antebellum 'Common' Readers; B.Hochman -- Reading in Polish and National Identity in Nineteenth-century Silesia; I.Dobosiewicz & L.Piasecka -- Reading Science: Evidence from the Career of Edwin Gilpin, Mining Engineer; L.J.Duggan & B.H.MacDonald -- Reading in an Age of Censorship: The Case of Catholic Germany, 1800-1914; J.T. Zalar -- PART IV: READERS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY -- Understanding Children as Readers: Librarians' Anecdotes and Surveys in the United States from 1890 to 1930; K.McDowell -- Letters to a Daughter: An Archive of Middle-Class Reading in New Zealand, c.1872-1932; S.Liebich -- Books Behind Bars: Mahatma Gandhi's Community of Captive Readers; I.Desai -- Remembering Reading: Memory, Books, and Reading in South Africa's Apartheid Prisons, 1956-90; A.L.Dick -- Further Reading and Weblinks -- Index --. |
摘要、提要註: |
How do we accurately recover the diverse engagement of readers with texts across time and in widely differing societies across the world? This volume brings together a representative sample of original, evidence based research in the History of Reading. Chapters cover individual readers, reading communities or groups and their engagement with texts in societies ranging from nineteenth-century Poland and Germany, apartheid era South Africa, Antebellum America, colonial Canada, India and New Zealand, and early modern England. Deliberately juxtaposing research on different countries, linguistic communities and historical periods, The History of Reading, Vol. 1: International Perspectives, c.1500-1990 demonstrates the challenges and rewards of undertaking empirical research on reading practices and asks whether readers' responses to texts are always entirely conditioned by their historical, socio-economic, or political circumstances. A wide-ranging critical introduction provides a succinct overview of evidence based approaches to the history of reading, and reminds us that the task of recovering the evidence of readers through history and across the world is still in its infancy.--Provided by publisher. |
電子資源: |
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230316799 |
電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230316737 |