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The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers

By Jonathan Rose

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781474461924
DOI
10.1515/9781474461924
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3802486 bytes)
Pages
400\402
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 01:55:11

Description

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers pornography and the origins of the transgender movementExplores everyday reading in Nazi GermanyAnalyses prison readingExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nationsSubversive 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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