دانلود کتاب The History of Reading, Volume 1: International Perspectives, c.1500–1990

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Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances....Pages 15-31
Modes of Bible Reading in Early Modern England....Pages 32-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America....Pages 49-63
Reconstructing Reading Vogues in the Old South: Borrowings from the Charleston Library Society, 1811–1817....Pages 64-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Devouring Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Antebellum ‘Common’ Readers....Pages 87-100
Reading in Polish and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Silesia....Pages 101-116
Reading Science: Evidence from the Career of Edwin Gilpin, Mining Engineer....Pages 117-132
Reading in an Age of Censorship: The Case of Catholic Germany, 1800–1914....Pages 133-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Understanding Children as Readers: Librarians’ Anecdotes and Surveys in the United States from 1890 to 1930....Pages 147-162
Letters to a Daughter: An Archive of Middle-Class Reading in New Zealand, c.1872-1932....Pages 163-177
Books Behind Bars: Mahatma Gandhi’s Community of Captive Readers....Pages 178-191
Remembering Reading: Memory, Books and Reading in South Africa’s Apartheid Prisons, 1956–90....Pages 192-207
Back Matter....Pages 208-222