The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers

Reveals The Experience Of Reading In Many Cultures And Across The Agescovers Pornography And The Origins Of The Transgender Movementexplores Everyday Reading In Nazi Germanyanalyses Prison Readingexamines Reading In Revolutionary Societies And Occupied Nationssubversive Readers Explores The Strategies Used By Readers To Question Authority, Challenge Convention, Resist Oppression, Assert Their Independence And Imagine A Better World. This Kind Of Insurgent Reading May Be Found Everywhere: In Revolutionary France And Nazi Germany, In Eastern Europe Under Communism And In Australian And Iranian Prisons, Among Eighteenth-century Women Reading History And Nineteenth-century Men Reading Erotica, Among Postcolonial Africans, The Blind, And Pioneering Transgender Activists. Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Figures And Plates -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 History, Politics And The Separate Spheres: Women’s Reading In Eighteenth-century Britain And America -- 2 Reading In Australian Prisons: An Exploration Of Motivation -- 3 Hawking Terror: Reading The French Revolutionary Press -- 4 Hellfire And Cannibals: Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-century Erotic Reading Groups And Their Manuscripts -- 5 The ‘tactile Ba[b]ble Under Which The Blind Have Hitherto Groaned’: Dots, Lines And Literacy For The Blind In Nineteenth-century North America -- 6 British Cultures Of Reading And Literary Appreciation In Nineteenth-century Singapore -- 7 Moral Readership And Political Apprenticeship: Commentaries On English Education In India, 1875–1930 -- 8 The ‘pleasure And Profit’ Of Reading: Adolescents And Juvenile Popular Fiction In The Early Twentieth Century -- 9 Trans Culture And The Circulation Of Ideas -- 10 Reading History, History Reading In Modern Iranian Literature: Prison Writing As National Allegory Or A World Literary Genre? -- 11 Beyond Mein Kampf: Bestsellers, Writers, Readers And The Politics Of Literature In Nazi Germany -- 12 Reading Spaces In Japanese-occupied Indonesia: The Project To Create And Translate A Japanese-language Library -- 13 Just Send Zhivago: Reading Over, Under And Through The Iron Curtain -- 14 African Readers As World Readers: Unesco, Worldreader And The Perception Of Reading -- 15 The Kindle Era: Diy Publishing And African-american Readers -- 16 ‘i Loved The Stories – They Weren’t Boring’: Narrative Gaps, The ‘disnarrated’ And The Significance Of Style In Prison Reading Groups -- Select Bibliography -- Index Of Methods And Sources -- General Index Edited By Jonathan Rose.