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Common Readers
by Jonathan Rose
This is not a children's book. Edinburgh History of Reading — Common Readers is an academic work of literary criticism and history designed for university-level study and adult scholars. It analyzes how ordinary people throughout history and across cultures have experienced reading and literature.
Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesShows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and ChinaExplores how digital media has transformed literary criticismPortrays everyday reading in art Includes reading across national and cultural linesCommon Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read, and how books changed their lives.
Edinburgh University Press
385
9781474461894
2020-04-02
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