The History of Reading, Vol. 1: International Perspectives, C. 1500-1990 (The History of Reading)
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List of Figures List of Tables Foreword; S.Eliot Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Towheed & W. R.Owens PART I: READERS IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WORLD Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances; J.Ford Modes of Bible Reading in Early Modern England; W.R.Owens PART II: READERS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTIC WORLD Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America; R.Bell Reconstructing Reading Vogues in the Old South: Borrowings from the Charleston Library Society, 1811–1817; I.Lehuu PART III: READERS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin : Antebellum 'Common' Readers; B.Hochman Reading in Polish and National Identity in Nineteenth-century Silesia; I.Dobosiewicz & L.Piasecka Reading Science: Evidence from the Career of Edwin Gilpin, Mining Engineer; L.J.Duggan & B.H.MacDonald Reading in an Age of Censorship: The Case of Catholic Germany, 1800–1914; J.T. Zalar PART IV: READERS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY Understanding Children as Readers: Librarians' Anecdotes and Surveys in the United States from 1890 to 1930; K.McDowell Letters to a Daughter: An Archive of Middle-Class Reading in New Zealand, c.1872–1932'; S.Liebich Books Behind Bars: Mahatma Gandhi's Community of Captive Readers; I.Desai Remembering Reading: Memory, Books, and Reading in South Africa's Apartheid Prisons, 1956–60; A.L.Dick Further Reading and Weblinks Index