A History of Reading
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780140166545
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A History of Reading in the West
Author: Guglielmo Cavallo
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781558494114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterature has not always been written in the same ways, nor has it been received or read in the same ways over the course of Western civilization. Cavallo (Greek palaeography, U. of Rome La Sapienza), Chartier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and a number of other international contributors, address themes that highlight the transformation of reading methods and materials over the ages, such as the way texts in the Middle Ages were often written with the voice in mind, as they would have been read aloud, or even sung. Articles explore the innovations in the physical evolution of the book, as well as the growth and development of a broad-based reading public.
The History of Reading
Author: Shafquat Towheed
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415484206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The History of Reading' offers an accessible overview of this developing discipline, from the rise of literacy through to the current trend of book clubs.
The History of Reading
Author: S. Towheed
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-08-25
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0230316786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.
The History of Reading, Volume 2
Author: K. Halsey
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-08-26
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0230316794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?' This volume brings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveys to highlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity.
Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810
Author: Eve Tavor Bannet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-07-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1139497618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt.
The History of Reading, Volume 3
Author: R. Crone
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-08-26
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0230316735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized society.
A History of Reading
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 0698178971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book for book lovers by a true lover of books! At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsession and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinating history of the reader’s progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to digital.
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2024-01-08
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1800081685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew articles in the humanities have had the impact of Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton’s seminal ‘Studied for Action’ (1990), a study of the reading practices of Elizabethan polymath and prolific annotator Gabriel Harvey. Their excavation of the setting, methods and ambitions of Harvey’s encounters with his books ignited the History of Reading, an interdisciplinary field which quickly became one of the most exciting corners of the scholarly cosmos. A generation inspired by the model of Harvey fanned out across the world’s libraries and archives, seeking to reveal the many creative, unexpected and curious ways that individuals throughout history responded to texts, and how these interpretations in turn illuminate past worlds. Three decades on, Harvey’s example and Jardine’s work remain central to cutting-edge scholarship in the History of Reading. By uniting ‘Studied for Action’ with published and unpublished studies on Harvey by Jardine, Grafton and the scholars they have influenced, this collection provides a unique lens on the place of marginalia in textual, intellectual and cultural history. The chapters capture subsequent work on Harvey and map the fields opened by Jardine and Grafton’s original article, collectively offering a posthumous tribute to Lisa Jardine and an authoritative overview of the History of Reading.
Edinburgh History of Reading
Author: Hammond Mary Hammond
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1474446108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers reading practices from China in the 6th century BCE to Britain in the 18th centuryEmploys a range of methodologies from close textual analysis to quantitative data on book ownershipExamines a wide range of texts and ways of reading them from English poetry and funeral elegies to translated books in PeruChallenges period-based models of readership historyEarly Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has been lost. It begins by investigating what a close analysis of extant texts from 6th-century BCE China can tell us about contemporary reading practices, explores the reading of medieval European women and their male medical practitioner counterparts, traces readers across New Spain, Peru, the Ottoman Empire and the Iberian world between 1500 and 1800, and ends with an analysis of the surprisingly enduring practice of reading aloud.
