The Edinburgh History of Reading : Subversive Readers Hardback
Edited by Jonathan Rose, Mary Hammond
Part of the The Edinburgh History of Reading series
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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Covers pornography and the origins of the transgender movementExplores everyday reading in Nazi GermanyAnalyses prison readingExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nations Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world.
This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 11 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2020
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- ISBN:9781474461917
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 11 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474461917
