The Edinburgh History of Reading

Common Readers

By: Jonathan Rose (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 January 2020

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320 Pages

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages

Shows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and China
Explores how digital media has transformed literary criticism
Portrays everyday reading in art
Includes reading across national and cultural lines

Common 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.

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Taken together, the four volumes of The Edinburgh History of Reading constitute a fascinating compendium of research on readers and reading. [...] The volumes successfully demonstrate the diversity of their subjects' encounters with texts of all kinds, and highlight the importance of reading as both shared cultural practice and intensely individual experience.--Katie Halsey, University of Stirling

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