The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers - Hardcover

Jonathan Rose

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474461913 ISBN 13: 9781474461917

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Subversive 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.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University, USA. Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton.

From the Back Cover

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring. Subversive 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. Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at the University of Southampton.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474461913
• ISBN 13: 9781474461917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Jonathan Rose, Mary Hammond