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The History of Reading, Volume 1

International Perspectives, c.1500–1990

  • Shafquat Towheed
  • W. R. Owens
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Shafquat Towheed, W. R. Owens
      Pages 1-12

  3. Readers in the Medieval and Early Modern World

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances
      John Ford
      Pages 15-31
    3. Modes of Bible Reading in Early Modern England
      W. R. Owens
      Pages 32-45

  4. Readers in the Enlightenment and Romantic World

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 47-47
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    2. Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America
      Richard Bell
      Pages 49-63
    3. Reconstructing Reading Vogues in the Old South: Borrowings from the Charleston Library Society, 1811–1817
      Isabelle Lehuu
      Pages 64-83

  5. Readers in the Nineteenth-Century World

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 85-85
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    2. Devouring Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Antebellum ‘Common’ Readers
      Barbara Hochman
      Pages 87-100
    3. Reading in Polish and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Silesia
      Ilona Dobosiewicz, Liliana Piasecka
      Pages 101-116
    4. Reading Science: Evidence from the Career of Edwin Gilpin, Mining Engineer
      Lawrence J. Duggan, Bertrum H MacDonald
      Pages 117-132
    5. Reading in an Age of Censorship: The Case of Catholic Germany, 1800–1914
      Jeffrey T. Zalar
      Pages 133-144

  6. Readers in the Twentieth-Century World

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 145-145
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    2. Understanding Children as Readers: Librarians’ Anecdotes and Surveys in the United States from 1890 to 1930
      Kate McDowell
      Pages 147-162
    3. Letters to a Daughter: An Archive of Middle-Class Reading in New Zealand, c.1872-1932
      Susann Liebich
      Pages 163-177
    4. Books Behind Bars: Mahatma Gandhi’s Community of Captive Readers
      Ian Desai
      Pages 178-191
    5. Remembering Reading: Memory, Books and Reading in South Africa’s Apartheid Prisons, 1956–90
      Archie L. Dick
      Pages 192-207
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 208-222
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About this book

Introduction

Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.

Keywords

enlightenment identity literacy national identity Romanticism society Tradition

Editors and affiliations

  • Shafquat Towheed
    • 1
  • W. R. Owens
    • 1
  1. 1.The Open UniversityUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316782
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-32005-9
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-31678-2
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