- 232 pages
- English
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Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace
About this book
Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- An Introduction to Reading Communities: Processes and Formations
- 1 Reading in an Epistolary Community in Eighteenth-Century England
- 2 Nineteenth-Century Reading Groups in Britain and the Community of the Text: an Experiment with Little Dorrit
- 3 Reading Across the Empire: the National Home Reading Union Abroad
- 4 Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise
- 5 ‘I Used to Read Anything that Caught My Eye, But …’: Cultural Authority and Intermediaries in a Virtual Young Adult Book Club
- 6 The Growth of Reading Groups as a Feminine Leisure Pursuit: Cultural Democracy or Dumbing Down?
- 7 Speaking Subjects: Developing Identities in Women’s Reading Communities
- 8 Leading Questions: Interpretative Guidelines in Contemporary Popular Reading Culture
- 9 Marionettes and Puppeteers? The Relationship between Book Club Readers and Publishers
- Bibliography
- Index
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