Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on
topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the
workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes
of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a
deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and
public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but
it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring.Common
Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of
ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian
London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia,
farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book
discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read,
and how books changed their lives.Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan
Professor of History at Drew University.
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