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Mediation and Children's Reading
Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
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Mediation and Children's Reading
Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
About this book
This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children's reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children's reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays in this volume capture such complexity by invoking the conception of "mediation" to approach children's reading as a site of interaction among individual people, material texts, and institutional networks. Featuring a range of scholarly perspectives from the disciplines of literature, education, graphic design, and library and information science, this collection uncovers both the intricacies and wider stakes of children's reading. The books, public programs, and archives that focus explicitly on children's interests and needs are powerful arenas that give expression to the key ideological investments of a culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Historical Reading Practices
- Chapter 1: Socioeconomic Status and Varied Freedoms in Eighteenth-Century Childhood Reading
- Chapter 2: Enlightenment Reading Lists: Domestic Curricula and the Organization of Knowledge in Novels by Women
- Part II: Programs and Collections
- Chapter 3: Mediating the Archives: Child Readers and Their Books in Special Collections
- Chapter 4: Bookbug: The Mediating Effect of Book Gifting in Scotland
- Part III: Textual and Material Strategies
- Chapter 5: Reading Information: Using Graphic Language to Enhance Engagement with Children’s Books
- Chapter 6: Mediating with Metafiction: Rethinking What Counts about Reading with Parents, Using Picturebooks
- Part IV: Texts, Worlds, and Mediation
- Chapter 7: Mediating the Act of Reading through Picturebooks and Fictional Readers
- Chapter 8: “My World Has Become Smaller”: Cortically Remapping Postfeminist Confinement in Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors