Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace [electronic resource] /
Sedo, DeNel Rehberg.author.
Rehberg Sedo, DeNel,1965-
Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; An Introduction to Reading Communities: Processes and Formations; 1 Reading in an Epistolary Community in Eighteenth-Century England; 2 Nineteenth-Century Reading Groups in Britain and the Community of the Text: an Experiment with Little Dorrit; 3 Reading Across the Empire: the National Home Reading Union Abroad; 4 Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise
5 'I Used to Read Anything that Caught My Eye, But ...': Cultural Authority and Intermediaries in a Virtual Young Adult Book Club6 The Growth of Reading Groups as a Feminine Leisure Pursuit: Cultural Democracy or Dumbing Down?; 7 Speaking Subjects: Developing Identities in Women's Reading Communities; 8 Leading Questions: Interpretative Guidelines in Contemporary Popular Reading Culture; 9 Marionettes and Puppeteers? The Relationship between Book Club Readers and Publishers; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-212) and index.
Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Communication.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Media Studies.