The Edinburgh History of Reading : Modern Readers / edited by Mary Hammond.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series -- Title -- Imprint -- Contents -- Figures, Plates and Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Mary Hammond -- 1. The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Christopher Ferguson -- 2. The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination: Picturing Africans as Readers -- Natalie Fossey and Lize Kriel -- 3. Augustus De Morgan (1806-71), His Reading and His Library -- Karen Attar -- 4. William Gladstone Reads His Contemporaries -- Michael Wheeler -- 5. Reading While Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century -- Mary Hammond

6. The Empire Reads Back: Travel, Exploration and the British World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- John McAleer -- 7. 'Knowledge of books' and 'Appreciation of literature': Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era -- Christine Pawley -- 8. Papers, Posters and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War -- Simon Eliot -- 9. Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America's Post-war Therapeutic Faith -- Cheryl Oestreicher -- 10. Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth-Century America -- Joan Shelley Rubin

11. Remaking the World Through Reading: Books, Readers and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945-70 -- Amanda Laugesen -- 12. Amazing Stories, 1950-3: The Readers Behind the Covers -- Angelle Whavers -- 13. The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the Present -- Cait Coker -- 14. 'A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast' (Matthew Arnold, 'The Buried Life'): A Methodology for Literary Reading in the Twenty-First Century -- Philip Davis and Josie Billington -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Methods and Sources -- General Index

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