Edinburgh History of Reading
Subtitle: Subversive Readers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781474461917
Description: "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."--