The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers

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Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read, and how books changed their lives. Cover Half-title Series Title Imprint Contents Figures, Plates and Tables Contributors Introduction Jonathan Rose 1. British Commonplace Readers, 1706–1879 Jillian M. Hess 2. Reading in God’s Treasure-House: The Societies for Purchasing Books in Leadhills and Wanlockhead, 1741–1820 Margaret J. Joachim 3. The School Library and Childhood Reading in Lowland Scotland, 1750–1850 Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell 4. ‘Although ambitious we did not aspire to such dizzy heights’: Manuscript Magazines and Communal Reading Practices of London Literary Societies in the Long Nineteenth Century Lauren Weiss 5. Space and Place in Nineteenth-Century Images of Women Readers Amelia Yeates 6. Asian Classic Literature and the English General Reader, 1845–1915​ Alexander Bubb 7. Readers and Reading During Russia’s Literacy Transition, 1850–1950: How Readers Shaped a Great Literature Jeffrey Brooks 8. F. F. Pavlenkov’s Literacy Project: Popular Serials and Reading Rooms for the Russian Masses Carol Ueland and Ludmilla A. Trigos 9. Formal and Informal Networks of Book Provision for Rural Children in Australia and New Zealand, 1900–60 Bronwyn Lowe 10. Putting Your Best Books Forward: A Historical and Psychological Look at the Presentation of Book Collections Nicole Gonzalez and Nick Weir-Williams 11. In Search of the Chinese Common Reader: Vernacular Knowledge in an Age of New Media Joan Judge 12. From ‘Bookworms’ to ‘Scholar-Farmers’: Tao Xingzhi and Changing Understandings of Literacy in the Chinese Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1923–34 Zach Smith 13. The Voice of the Reader: The Landscape of Online Book Discussion in the Netherlands, 1997–2016 Peter Boot 14. Novel Ideas: The Promotion of North American Book Club Books and the Creation of Their Readers Samantha Rideout and DeNel Rehberg Sedo 15. Making the Story Real: Readers, Fans and the Novels of John Green Jennifer Burek Pierce Select Bibliography Index of Methods and Sources General Index