The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers

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 Criticisportrays Everyday Reading In Artincludes 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. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures, Plates And Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 British Commonplace Readers, 1706–1879 -- Chapter 2 Reading In God’s Treasure-house: The Societies For Purchasing Books In Leadhills And Wanlockhead, 1741–1820 -- Chapter 3 The School Library And Childhood Reading In Lowland Scotland, 1750–1850 -- Chapter 4 ‘although Ambitious We Did Not Aspire To Such Dizzy Heights’: Manuscript Magazines And Communal Reading Practices Of London Literary Societies In The Long Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5 Space And Place In Nineteenth-century Images Of Women Readers -- Chapter 6 Asian Classic Literature And The English General Reader, 1845–1915 -- Chapter 7 Readers And Reading During Russia’s Literacy Transition, 1850–1950: How Readers Shaped A Great Literature -- Chapter 8 F. F. Pavlenkov’s Literacy Project: Popular Serials And Reading Rooms For The Russian Masses -- Chapter 9 Formal And Informal Networks Of Book Provision For Rural Children In Australia And New Zealand, 1900–60 -- Chapter 10 Putting Your Best Books Forward: A Historical And Psychological Look At The Presentation Of Book Collections -- Chapter 11 In Search Of The Chinese Common Reader: Vernacular Knowledge In An Age Of New Media -- Chapter 12 From ‘bookworms’ To ‘scholar-farmers’: Tao Xingzhi And Changing Understandings Of Literacy In The Chinese Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1923–34 -- Chapter 13 The Voice Of The Reader: The Landscape Of Online Book Discussion In The Netherlands, 1997–2016 -- Chapter 14 Novel Ideas: The Promotion Of North American Book Club Books And The Creation Of Their Readers -- Chapter 15 Making The Story Real: Readers, Fans And The Novels Of John Green -- Select Bibliography -- Index Of Methods And Sources -- General Index Edited By Jonathan Rose.