TY - BOOK AU - Rose,Jonathan TI - The Edinburgh history of reading: subversive readers T2 - The Edinburgh History of Reading SN - 9781474461924 AV - Z1003 .E356 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Books and reading KW - History KW - England KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Popular culture KW - Authors and readers KW - Electronic Books N1 - 1 and indexes; History, politics and the separate spheres: women's reading in eighteenth-century Britain and America; Mark Towsey --; Reading in Australian prisons: an exploration of motivation; Mary Carroll and Jane Garner --; Hawking terror: reading the French Revolutionary Press; Valerae Hurley --; Hellfire and cannibals: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century erotic reading groups and their manuscripts; Brian M. Watson --; The 'tactile ba[b]bl under which the blind have hitherto groaned': dots, lines and literacy for the blind in nineteenth-century North America; Joanna L. Pearce --; British cultures of reading and literary appreciation in nineteenth-century Singapore; Porsche Fermanis --; Moral readership and political apprenticeship: commentaries on English education in India, 1875-1930; Pramod K. Nayar --; The 'pleasure and profit' of reading: adolescents and juvenile popular fiction in the early twentieth century; Trudi Abel --; Trans culture and the circulation of ideas; Lisa Z. Sigel --; Reading history, history reading in modern Iranian literature: prison writing as national allegory or a world literary genre?; Alireza Fakhrkonandeh --; Beyond Mein Kampf: bestsellers, writers, readers and the politics of literature in Nazi Germany; Christian Adam --; Reading spaces in Japanese-occupied Indonesia: the project to create and translate a Japanese-language library; Atsuhiko Wada, translated by Edward Mack --; Just send Zhivago: reading over, under and through the iron curtain; Jessica Brandt --; African readers as world readers: UNESCO, worldreader and the perception of reading; Ruth Bush --; The Kindle era: DIY publishing and African-American readers; Kinohi Nishikawa --; 'I loved the stories - they weren't boring': narrative gaps, the 'disnarrated' and the significance of style in prison reading groups; Patricia Canning; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2467541&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -