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An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on
publication via the Liverpool University Press website. Steel City
Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of
new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its
distinctive method is to listen to readers' own voices, rather than
theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and
engaging structure traces reading journeys from childhood into
education and adulthood, and attends to settings from home to
school to library. It has a distinctive focus on reading for
pleasure and its framework of argument situates that type of
reading in relation to dimensions of gender and class. It is
grounded in place, and particularly in the context of a specific
industrial city: Sheffield. The men and women featured in the book,
coming to adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s, rarely regarded reading
as a means of self-improvement. It was more usually a compulsive
and intensely pleasurable private activity.
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