The History of Reading (3 volume pack) Volumes 1, 2 and 3

by Owens, W.R.; Towheed, Shafquat

• ISBN13: 9780230319288
• ISBN10: 0230319289
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This suite of three volumes, available in a discounted pack, offers a comprehensive overview of current research in the history of reading from different perspectives, collating a wealth of recent evidence-based investigations of reading practice from c.1500 to the present day and offering an agenda for future directions in scholarship.

Author Biography

Volume 1
 
SHAFQUAT TOWHEED is Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK, and Co-Investigator on The Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945 (RED) project. He is co-editor of The History of Reading: A Reader (Routledge, 2010) and The History of Reading, Vol.3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics (Palgrave, 2011), and editor of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (Broadview, 2010).
 
W.R. OWENS is Professor of English Literature at The Open University, UK. He has published widely on John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe, and is Director of the Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945 (RED) project. His most recent publication is an edition of the 1611 text of The Gospels for Oxford World's Classics (2011).
 
Volume 2
 
KATIE HALSEY is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Stirling, UK. Her publications include numerous articles on literature and print culture, and the co-edited volumes The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century (2007) and The History of Reading (2010).

W.R. OWENS is Professor of English Literature at The Open University, UK. He has published widely on John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe, and is Director of the Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945 (RED) project. His most recent publication is an edition of the 1611 text of The Gospels for Oxford World's Classics (2011).

Volume 3
 
ROSALIND CRONE is a Lecturer in History at the Open University, UK, and Co-Investigator on The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED) project. She has published widely on popular culture, crime and literacy in the nineteenth century and is author of the forthcoming Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London (Manchester University Press).

SHAFQUAT TOWHEED is Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK, and Co-Investigator on The Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945 (RED) project. He is co-editor of The History of Reading: A Reader (Routledge, 2010) and The History of Reading, Vol.1: International Perspectives, c.1550–1990 (Palgrave, 2011), and editor of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (Broadview, 2010).

Table of Contents

Volume 1
 
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, 1956–60; A.L.Dick
Further Reading and Weblinks
Index

Volume 2
 
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword; S.Eliot
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; K.Halsey & W.R. Owens
PART I: READING COMMUNITIES
'The Talent Hid in a Napkin': Castle Libraries in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; M.Towsey
Caroline and Paul: Biblical Commentaries as Evidence of Reading in Victorian Britain; M.Ledger-Lomas
Reading the 'religion of socialism': Olive Schreiner, the Labour Church and the Construction of Left-wing Reading Communities in the 1890s; C.Gill
PART II: READING AND GRATIFICATION
Learning to Read Trash: Late-Victorian Schools and the Penny Dreadful; A.Vaninskaya
'Something light to take my mind off the war': Reading on the Home Front during the Second World War; K.Halsey
PART III: READING AND THE PRESS
What Readers Want: Criminal Intelligence and the Fortunes of the Metropolitan Press during the Long Eighteenth Century; R.Crone
The Reading World of a Provincial Town: Preston, Lancashire 1855–1900; A.Hobbs
'Putting Literature Out of Reach'? Reading Popular Newspapers in Mid-twentieth Century Britain; A.Bingham
PART IV: READERS AND AUTODIDACTICISM
James Lackington (1746–1815): Reading and Personal Development; S.Bankes
Henry Head (1861–1940) as a Reader of Literature; S.Jacyna
In a Class of their Own: the Autodidact Impulse and Working-Class Readers in Twentieth-century Scotland; L.Fleming, D.Finkelstein & A.McCleery
Further Reading and Weblinks
Index

Volume 3
 
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword; S.Eliot
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; R.Crone & S.Towheed
PART I: PERSPECTIVES
Altick's Map: The New Historiography of the Common Reader; J.Rose
Commodity Readers: An Introduction to a Frame for Reading; S.R.Frost
PART II: METHODS AND TACTICS
Between the Book and the Reader: The Uses of Reading for the Gratification of Personal Psychosocial Needs; H.Adoni & H.Nossek
One Reader, Two Votes: Re-tooling Fan Mail Scholarship; B.Ryan
The Mediation of Response: A Critical Approach to Individual and Group Reading Practices; D.Allington & J.Swann
PART III: INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES
Representing Reading Spaces; S.Colclough
A Book of One's Own: Examples of Library Book Marginalia; M.Dahlström
PART IV: READING THE VISUAL
Reading Ephemera; S.Qureishi
Books in Photographs; K.Flint
PART V: READING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Filipino Blogs as Evidence of Reading and Reception; V.Totanes
Reading the Book of Mozilla: Web Browsers and the Materiality of Digital Texts; A.Galey
Further Reading and Weblinks
Index