Reading in History

New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition
Herausgeber: Gunzenhauser, Bonnie

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays that offer a methodological framework for the history of reading. Focusing on a specific historical moment, it gathers statistics about such issues as literacy rates, library subscriptions, publication and sales figures, and print runs to answer questions about what was being read and by whom in a particular place and time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663268
• ISBN-10: 1138663263
• Artikelnr.: 45218793

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Gunzenhauser

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Bonnie Gunzenhauser; Chapter 1 On the Use of Anecdotal Evidence in Reception Study and the History of Reading
Daniel Allington; Chapter 2 Examining the Evidence of Reading: Three Examples from the Reading Experience Database
1450-1945
Rosalind Crone
Katie Halsey
Shafquat Towheed; Chapter 3 Historical Dictionaries and the History of Reading
Michael Adams; Chapter 4 Reading and the Visual Dimensions of the Book: The Popular Cold War Fictions of Helen Macinnes
Nicole Matthews; Chapter 5 The Work of Abridgements: Readers
Editors and Expectations
Jennifer Snead; Chapter 6 Women Reading Shakespeare in the Outpost: Rural Reading Groups
Literary Culture and Civic Life in America
Katherine Scheil; Chapter 7 Turning Libraries into Public Works: Funding Arguments on the Local Level in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton
Pennsylvania
Catherine Turner; Chapter 8 Explicating Explications: Researching Contemporary Reading
Anouk Lang;