Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition

Reading in History

New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition

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Edited by Bonnie Gunzenhauser

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781851966868

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest

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This collection of essays draws together new research from leading scholars to offer a new methodological framework for the history of reading. A growing field, history of reading brings together practitioners from literature, history, sociology, education, philosophy, cultural studies and law. On the one hand, scholars have approached the subject empirically, focusing on a specific historical moment and gathering detailed statistics about such issues as literacy rates, library subscriptions, publication and sales figures and print runs to answer questions about what was being read and by whom in a particular place and time. On the other, scholars have approached the subject theoretically, focusing on how meaning is created and conditioned by a theoretical – and often largely ahistorical – reader. This edition synthesizes divergent approaches to reconsider the history of reading, the ways we make claims about readers and what they do with texts.

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New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-x

Introduction
pp 1-10

Section I - Artefactual Methodologies

1 - On the Use of Anecdotal Evidence in Reception Study and the History of Reading
pp 11-28

2 - Examining the Evidence of Reading: Three Examples from the Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945
pp 29-46

3 - Historical Dictionaries and the History of Reading
pp 47-62

Section II - Paratextual Methodologies

4 - Reading and the Visual Dimensions of the Book: The Popular Cold War Fictions of Helen MacInnes
pp 63-76

5 - The Work of Abridgements: Readers, Editors and Expectations
pp 77-90

Section III - Institutional Methodologies

6 - Women Reading Shakespeare in the Outpost: Rural Reading Groups, Literary Culture and Civic Life in America
pp 91-100

7 - Turning Libraries into Public Works: Funding Arguments on the Local Level in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania
pp 101-118

8 - Explicating Explications: Researching Contemporary Reading
pp 119-134

Notes
pp 135-158

Works Cited
pp 159-176

Index
pp 177-183

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