Cultural History Of Reading


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Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes


Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes
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Author : Sara E. Quay
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2008-11-30

Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes written by Sara E. Quay and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.


What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.



Cultural History Of Reading World Literature


Cultural History Of Reading World Literature
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Author : Sara E. Quay
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2009

Cultural History Of Reading World Literature written by Sara E. Quay and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Books and reading categories.


"Explores what people have read and why they have read it at different times and in different places in America and around the world ... Links key cultural changes and events to the reading material of the period ... Traces reading trends through an exploration of types of texts as well as specific examples of books, magazines, and political treatises that were influential and/or widely read ... Each chapter includes a timeline of events and an introduction to the region/time period that point out major events of the time or region that would have influenced what and how people read. An overview of reading trends and practices traces key trends in reading practices, including the development of lending libraries, the rise of the novel, and the impact of technology. The book also explores the relationship between popular reading materials and cultural change"--From Intro., p. [xi].



Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes


Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes
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Author : Sara E. Quay
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-11-30

Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes written by Sara E. Quay and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.


What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.



Cultural History Of Reading


Cultural History Of Reading
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Author : Gabrielle Watling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

Cultural History Of Reading written by Gabrielle Watling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Books and reading categories.




Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes


Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes
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Author : Sara E. Quay
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2008-11-30

Cultural History Of Reading 2 Volumes written by Sara E. Quay and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.


What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.



A History Of Reading In The West


A History Of Reading In The West
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Author : Guglielmo Cavallo
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 1999

A History Of Reading In The West written by Guglielmo Cavallo and has been published by Univ of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.


Literature has not always been written in the same ways, nor has it been received or read in the same ways over the course of Western civilization. Cavallo (Greek palaeography, U. of Rome La Sapienza), Chartier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and a number of other international contributors, address themes that highlight the transformation of reading methods and materials over the ages, such as the way texts in the Middle Ages were often written with the voice in mind, as they would have been read aloud, or even sung. Articles explore the innovations in the physical evolution of the book, as well as the growth and development of a broad-based reading public.



Reading Books And Prints As Cultural Objects


Reading Books And Prints As Cultural Objects
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Author : Evanghelia Stead
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-06-04

Reading Books And Prints As Cultural Objects written by Evanghelia Stead and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.


This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, ‘high’ and ‘low’. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns.



Loving Literature


Loving Literature
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Author : Deidre Lynch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015

Loving Literature written by Deidre Lynch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.


Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most commonand perhaps the most woundingis that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation ofLoving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but tolove literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private lifethat the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history. While never denying the very real feelings that warm our relationship to books, Loving Literature nonetheless serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase the love of literature” as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Lynch writes, It is as if those on the side of love of literature had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love's edginess and complexities.” With this masterly volume, Lynch restores those edges, and allows us to revel in those complexities.



Reading Home Cultures Through Books


Reading Home Cultures Through Books
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Author : Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022

Reading Home Cultures Through Books written by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.


This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.



Reading The Skies


Reading The Skies
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Author : Vladimir Jankovic
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-04-19

Reading The Skies written by Vladimir Jankovic and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-19 with History categories.


From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.