The Edinburgh history of reading : subversive readers /
Subversive readers
edited by Jonathan Rose.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xii, 386 pages) : illustrations
- The Edinburgh History of Reading .
History, politics and the separate spheres: women's reading in eighteenth-century Britain and America / Reading in Australian prisons: an exploration of motivation / Hawking terror: reading the French Revolutionary Press / Hellfire and cannibals: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century erotic reading groups and their manuscripts / The 'tactile ba[b]bl under which the blind have hitherto groaned': dots, lines and literacy for the blind in nineteenth-century North America / British cultures of reading and literary appreciation in nineteenth-century Singapore / Moral readership and political apprenticeship: commentaries on English education in India, 1875-1930 / The 'pleasure and profit' of reading: adolescents and juvenile popular fiction in the early twentieth century / Trans culture and the circulation of ideas / Reading history, history reading in modern Iranian literature: prison writing as national allegory or a world literary genre? / Beyond Mein Kampf: bestsellers, writers, readers and the politics of literature in Nazi Germany / Reading spaces in Japanese-occupied Indonesia: the project to create and translate a Japanese-language library / Just send Zhivago: reading over, under and through the iron curtain / African readers as world readers: UNESCO, worldreader and the perception of reading / The Kindle era: DIY publishing and African-American readers / 'I loved the stories - they weren't boring': narrative gaps, the 'disnarrated' and the significance of style in prison reading groups / Mark Towsey -- Mary Carroll and Jane Garner -- Valerae Hurley -- Brian M. Watson -- Joanna L. Pearce -- Porsche Fermanis -- Pramod K. Nayar -- Trudi Abel -- Lisa Z. Sigel -- Alireza Fakhrkonandeh -- Christian Adam -- Atsuhiko Wada, translated by Edward Mack -- Jessica Brandt -- Ruth Bush -- Kinohi Nishikawa -- Patricia Canning
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.
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