Author: Richard Daniel AltickPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Best sellers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The English Common Reader
Author: Richard Daniel AltickPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Best sellers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The English Common Reader, a Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900, by Richard D. Altick
Author: Richard D. AltickThe English Common Reader
Author: English Common Reader
Author: Richard Daniel AltickPublisher: Rourke Publishing (FL)
ISBN: 9780685049822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The English common reader; a social history of the mass reading public, 1800-1900...
Author: Richard Daniel AltickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608092577
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The English Common Reader
Author: Richard Daniel AltickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780758124036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Virginia Woolf's Common Reader
Author: Katerina KoutsantoniPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317001567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In the first comprehensive study of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader, Katerina Koutsantoni draws on theorists from the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to investigate the thematic pattern underpinning these books with respect to the persona of the 'common reader'. Though these two volumes are the only ones that Woolf compiled herself, they have seldom been considered as a whole. As a result, what they reveal about Woolf's position with regard to the processes of writing, reading, and critical analysis has not been fully examined. Koutsantoni challenges the critical commonplace that equates Woolf's strategy of self-effacement and personal removal from her works as a necessary compromise that allowed her to achieve authorial recognition in a male-dominated context. Rather, Koutsantoni argues that an investigation of impersonality in Woolf's essays reveals the potential of the genre to function both as a vehicle for the subjective and dialogic expression of the author and reader and as a venue for exploring topics with which the ordinary reader can relate. As she explores and challenges the meaning of impersonality in Woolf's Common Reader, Koutsantoni shows how the related issues of subjectivity, authority, reader-response, intersubjectivity, and dialogism offer useful perspectives from which to examine Woolf's work.
The History of Reading, Volume 2
Author: K. HalseyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230316794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?' This volume brings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveys to highlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity.
The English and Their History
Author: Robert TombsPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101873361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.
The History of the Book in the West: 1700–1800
Author: Eleanor F. ShevlinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351888226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of the hand-press era but also developments and practices that pointed to its future: ’the foundations of modern copyright; a rapid growth in the publication, circulation, and reading of periodicals; the promotion of niche marketing; alterations to distribution networks; and the emergence of the publisher as a central figure in the book trade, to name a few.’ The pace and extent of these changes varied greatly within the different sociopolitical contexts across the western world. The volume’s twenty-four articles, many of which proffer broader theoretical implications beyond their specific focus, highlight the era’s range of developments. Complementing these articles, the introductory essay provides an overview of the eighteenth-century book and milestones in its history during this period while simultaneously identifying potential directions for new scholarship.