دانلود کتاب The History of Reading, Volume 2: Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950

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Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 13
Foreword......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Notes on Contributors......Page 18
Introduction......Page 22
Part 1 Reading Communities......Page 34
1 \'The Talent Hid in a Napkin\': Castle Libraries in Eighteenth-Century Scotland......Page 36
2 Caroline and Paul: Biblical Commentaries as Evidence of Reading in Victorian Britain......Page 53
3 Reading the \'Religion of Socialism\': Olive Schreiner, the Labour Church and the Construction of Left-wing Reading Communities in the 1890s......Page 69
Part 2 Reading and Gratification......Page 86
4 Learning to Read Trash: Late-Victorian Schools and the Penny Dreadful......Page 88
5 \'Something light to take my mind off the war\': Reading on the Home Front during the Second World War......Page 105
Part 3 Reading and the Press......Page 122
6 What Readers Want: Criminal Intelligence and the Fortunes of the Metropolitan Press during the Long Eighteenth Century......Page 124
7 The Reading World of a Provincial Town: Preston, Lancashire 1855–1900......Page 142
8 \'Putting literature out of reach\'? Reading Popular Newspapers in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain......Page 160
Part 4 Readers and Autodidacticism......Page 176
9 James Lackington (1746–1815): Reading and Personal Development......Page 178
10 Henry Head (1861–1940) as a Reader of Literature......Page 196
11 In a Class of their Own: The Autodidact Impulse and Working-Class Readers in Twentieth-Century Scotland......Page 210
Further Reading and Weblinks......Page 226
Index......Page 229