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Author Lyons, Martyn.

Title Australian readers remember : an oral history of reading, 1890-1930 / Martyn Lyons and Lucy Taksa
Published Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description viii, 230 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary Australian Readers Remember is a novel cultural history, based on an investigation into the reading habits of sixty elderly Australians, who were asked to recall and to analyse what they were reading in the late nineteenth century and during the first three decades of the twentieth century, It is the first work of Australian literary history to focus on readers' experience and attitudes. Part One discusses the project, the place of oral history, and the problems involved in analysing the finding. Part Two offers an account of readers' memories of novels, verse, children's books, newspapers etc. Part Three examines the diffusion of literature and how the subjects obtained access to books. Part Four, the most original in the book, analyses the status of reading, attitudes towards books, as well as myths and prejudices surrounding the act of reading
Analysis Australia
Reading History
Books
History
Libraries
Literacy
Literature
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliography and index
Subject Books and reading -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Books and reading -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Books and reading -- Australia -- History.
Books and reading -- Australia.
Author Taksa, Lucy.
LC no. 93113190
ISBN 0195533046