Reading communities from salons to cyberspace
By: edited by DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780230299887
Subjects: Books and reading; Group reading; Book clubs (Discussion groups); Reading promotion; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to reading communities : processes and formations / DeNel Rehberg Sedo; title: Reading in an epistolary community in eighteenth-century England / Betty Schellenberg; title: Nineteenth century reading groups in Britain and the community of the text : an experiment with Little Dorrit / Jenny Hartley; title: Reading across the empire : the National Home Reading Union abroad / Robert Snape; title: Utopian civic-mindedness : Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the great books enterprise / Daniel Born; title: I used to read anything that caught my eye, but; title: : cultural authority and intermediaries in a virtual young adult book club / DeNel Rehberg Sedo; title: The growth of reading groups as a feminine leisure pursuit : cultural democracy or dumbing down? / Anna Kiernan; title: Speaking subjects : developing identities in book groups / Linsey Howie; title: Leading questions : interpretive guidelines in contemporary popular reading culture / Anna S. Ivy; title: Marionettes and puppeteers? : the relationship between book club readers and publishers / Danielle Fuller, Claire Squires & DeNel Rehberg Sedo.