| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 348 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Edinburgh History of Reading
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Edinburgh history of reading.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The rise of night reading in nineteenth-century Britain / Christopher Ferguson -- The book as prop in the missionary imagination: picturing Africans as readers / Natalie Fossey and Lize Kriel -- Augustus De Morgan (1806-71), his reading and his library / Karen Attar -- William Gladstone reads his contemporaries / Michael Wheeler -- Reading while travelling in the long nineteenth century / Mary Hammond -- The empire reads back: travel, exploration and the British world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / John McAleer -- 'Knowledge of books' and 'appreciation of literature': reading choices of aspiring American librarians in the progressive era / Christine Pawley -- Papers, posters and pamphlets: UK readers in the second world war / Simon Eliot -- Peace of mind in the age of anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America's post-war therapeutic faith / Cheryl Oestreicher -- Reading and classical music in mid-twentieth-century America / Joan Shelley Rubin -- Remaking the world through reading: books, readers and the global project of modernity, 1945-70 / Amanda Laugesen -- Amazing stories, 1950-3: the readers behind the covers / Angelle Whavers -- The other digital divide: gendering science fiction fan reading in print and online, 1930 to the present / Cait Coker -- 'A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast' (Matthew Arnold, 'The Buried Life'): a methodology for literary reading in the twenty-first century / Philip Davis and Josie Billington |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Books and reading. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Hammond, Mary, 1960- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Edinburgh history of reading. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 1474446116 (OCoLC)1085176461 |
| ISBN |
9781474446129 (electronic book) |
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1474446124 (electronic book) |
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9781474446112 (hardcover) |
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1474446116 (hardcover) |
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