Edinburgh History of Reading

Edinburgh History of Reading
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 438
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ISBN-10 : 9781474446136
ISBN-13 : 1474446132
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Book Synopsis Edinburgh History of Reading by : Hammond Mary Hammond

Download or read book Edinburgh History of Reading written by Hammond Mary Hammond and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century USEmploys a wide range of methodologies a Showcases new research including reading at night; readers as writers and critics; and 21st-century neuroscienceChallenges previous models with new data on travelling readers, images of readers, and digital reading and fan culturesModern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda.


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