| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
An introduction to reading communities : processes and formations / DeNel Rehberg Sedo -- Reading in an epistolary community in eighteenth-century England / Betty Schellenberg -- Nineteenth century reading groups in Britain and the community of the text : an experiment with Little Dorrit / Jenny Hartley -- Reading across the empire : the National Home Reading Union abroad / Robert Snape -- Utopian civic-mindedness : Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the great books enterprise / Daniel Born -- I used to read anything that caught my eye, but -- : cultural authority and intermediaries in a virtual young adult book club / DeNel Rehberg Sedo -- The growth of reading groups as a feminine leisure pursuit : cultural democracy or dumbing down? / Anna Kiernan -- Speaking subjects : developing identities in book groups / Linsey Howie -- Leading questions : interpretive guidelines in contemporary popular reading culture / Anna S. Ivy -- Marionettes and puppeteers? : the relationship between book club readers and publishers / Danielle Fuller, Claire Squires & DeNel Rehberg Sedo |
| Summary |
Building upon the influential work of book historians who question the assumption of the isolated individual reader, the authors in Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace draw attention to the relationships readers forge with one another and demonstrate how these social interactions influence the very personal relationship one enjoys with a book. Along with the assumption that shared reading is both a social process and a social formation, there are three distinct links evident in the reading communities presented in this collection: the notion of community, and questions about what constitutes community; the role of education; and mixed-method forms of inquiry. The authors present cogent and lively discussions of a wide variety of communal reading practices, and in the process demonstrate that intellectual rewards accrue when we set aside obstructive disciplinary, theoretical and methodological assumptions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History
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Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- History
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Group reading -- History
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Reading promotion -- History
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Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Book clubs (Discussion groups)
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Books and reading -- Social aspects
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Group reading
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Reading promotion
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rehberg Sedo, DeNel
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| LC no. |
2011012461 |
| ISBN |
9780230308848 |
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0230308848 |
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