The Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers
Mary Hammond, "The Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers"
English | ISBN: 1474446116 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1474446116 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages
Covers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century US
Employs a wide range of methodologies
Showcases new research including reading at night; readers as writers and critics; and 21st-century neuroscience
Challenges previous models with new data on travelling readers, images of readers, and digital reading and fan cultures
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