The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers

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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. Cover Half-title Series Title Imprint Contents Figures and Plates Contributors Introduction Jonathan Rose 1. History, Politics and the Separate Spheres: Women’s Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America Mark Towsey 2. Reading in Australian Prisons: An Exploration of Motivation Mary Carroll and Jane Garner 3. Hawking Terror: Reading the French Revolutionary Press Valerae Hurley 4. Hellfire and Cannibals: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Erotic Reading Groups and Their Manuscripts Brian Watson 5. The ‘tactile Ba[b]ble under which the blind have hitherto groaned’: Dots, Lines and Literacy for the Blind in Nineteenth-Century North America Joanna L. Pearce 6. British Cultures of Reading and Literary Appreciation in Nineteenth-Century Singapore Porscha Fermanis 7. Moral Readership and Political Apprenticeship: Commentaries on English Education in India, 1875–1930 Pramod K. Nayar 8. The ‘Pleasure and Profit’ of Reading: Adolescents and Juvenile Popular Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century Trudi Abel 9. Trans Culture and the Circulation of Ideas Lisa Z. Sigel 10. Reading History, History Reading in Modern Iranian Literature: Prison Writing as National Allegory or a World Literary Genre? Alireza Fakhrkonandeh 11. Beyond Mein Kampf: Bestsellers, Writers, Readers and the Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany Christian Adam 12. Reading Spaces in Japanese-Occupied Indonesia: The Project to Create and Translate a Japanese-Language Library Atsuhiko Wada, translated by Edward Mack 13. Just Send Zhivago: Reading Over, Under and Through the Iron Curtain Jessica Brandt 14. African Readers as World Readers: UNESCO, Worldreader and the Perception of Reading Ruth Bush 15. The Kindle Era: DIY Publishing and African-American Readers Kinohi Nishikawa 16. ‘I loved the stories – they weren’t boring’: Narrative Gaps, the ‘Disnarrated’ and the Significance of Style in Prison Reading Groups Patricia Canning Select Bibliography Index of Methods and Sources General Index