The History of Reading: International Perspectives, c. 1500-1990
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Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.
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Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
Publication Date: 07 Aug 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230319288
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Volume 1 RICHARD BELL Assistant Professor of History University of Maryland College Park USA IAN DESAI Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in South Asian Studies and History Yale University USA ILONA DOBOSIEWICZ Professor of English Literature Opole University Poland ARCHIE DICK Professor in the Department of Information Science University of Pretoria South Africa LAWRENCE DUGGAN Librarian and Researcher Saint Mary's University in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada SIMON ELIOT Professor of the History of the Book Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London UK JOHN FORD Maître de Conférences in English and Head of Department of Languages and Literature Champollion University in Albi France BARBARA HOCHMAN Associate Professor of Literature Ben Gurion University Israel ISABELLE LEHUU Professor of History Université du Québec à Montréal Canada SUSANN LIEBICH Doctoral Candidate in History Victoria University of Wellington New ZealandBERTRUM H. MACDONALD is Professor of Information Management Dalhousie University Halifax Nova Scotia Canada KATE MCDOWELL Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA LILIANA PIASECKA Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language Opole University Poland JEFFREY T. SALAR Historian of Modern German and Central Europe University of Wisconsin-Whitewater USA Volume 2 SOPHIE BANKES Doctoral Student The Open University UK ADRIAN BINGHAM Senior Lecturer in Modern History University of Sheffield UK ROSALIND CRONE Lecturer in History The Open University UK SIMON ELIOT Professor of the History of the Book Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London UK DAVID FINKELSTEIN Research Professor of Media and Print Culture Queen Margaret University Edinburgh UK LINDA FLEMING Postdoctoral Researcher for the Scottish ReadersRemember Project Edinburgh Napier University UK CLARE GILL Doctoral Candidate in English Queen's University Belfast UK ANDREW HOBBS Postdoctoral Research Assistant University of Central Lancashire UK STEPHEN JACYNA Reader in the History of Medicine University College London UK MICHAEL LEDGER-LOMAS Fellow of Peterhouse Cambridge University UK ALISTAIR MCCLEERY Professor and Director of the Scottish Centre for the Book Edinburgh Napier University UK MARK TOWSEY Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History University of Liverpool UK ANNA VANINSKAYA Lecturer in Victorian Literature University of Edinburgh UK Volume 3 HANNA ADONI Sammy Ofer School of Communications Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Israel DANIEL ALLINGTON Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Open University UK STEPHEN COLCLOUGH Lecturer in the School of English Bangor University UK MATS DAHLSTROM Associate Professor Swedish School of Library and Information Science Sweden SIMON ELIOT Professor of the History of the Book Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London KATE FLINT Professor of English and Art History University of Southern California USA SIMON R. FROST External Lecturer University of Southern Denmark Denmark ALAN GALEY Assistant Professor Faculty of Information University of Toronto Canada HILLEL NOSSEK Professor of Communication School of Media Studies College of Management Academic Studies Israel SADIAH QUREISHI Research Fellow Cambridge Victorian Studies Group University of Cambridge UK JONATHAN ROSE Kenan Professor of History Drew University USA BARBARA RYAN National University of Singapore JOAN SWANN Senior Lecturer Centre for Language and Communication Open University UK VERNON TOTANES Ph.D. Candidate University of Toronto Canada.