Common readers
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Common readers
(The Edinburgh history of reading / general editors, Mary Hammond and Jonathan Rose)
Edinburgh University Press, c2020
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-341) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages
Shows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and China
Explores how digital media has transformed literary criticism
Portrays 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.
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