Loving Literature
Title | Loving Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Deidre Lynch |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022618370X |
"Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common--and perhaps the most wounding--is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private life--that the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history."--Publisher's Web site.
The History of Reading
Title | The History of Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Shafquat Towheed |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Books and reading |
ISBN | 9780415484206 |
'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 Social Life of Books
Title | The Social Life of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Abigail Williams |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2017-06-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300228104 |
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
A History of Reading in the West
Title | A History of Reading in the West PDF eBook |
Author | Guglielmo Cavallo |
Publisher | Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | 492 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781558494114 |
Literature 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 Book History Reader
Title | The Book History Reader PDF eBook |
Author | David Finkelstein |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415226585 |
The editors illustrate how book history studies have evolved into a broad approach which incorporates social and cultural considerations governing the production, dissemination and reception of print and texts.
Reading History in Children's Books
Title | Reading History in Children's Books PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Butler |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2012-07-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137026030 |
This book offers a critical account of historical books about Britain written for children, including realist novels, non-fiction, fantasy and alternative histories. It also investigates the literary, ideological and philosophical challenges involved in writing about the past, especially for an audience whose knowledge of history is often limited.
Reading History in the Roman Empire
Title | Reading History in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Baumann |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 2022-01-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110764121 |
Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers’ tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers’ affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.