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What Readers Do

Beth Driscoll
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aesthetic judgements
anglophone books
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book clubs
book history
capitalism
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consumer publishing
Contemporary readers
ebooks
empathy
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every-day reader
modern reading
moral beliefs
non-professional readers
offline spaces
online spaces
pleasure reading
post-digital
print books
publishing
qualitative research
reader agency
reader creativity
reading fiction
self-care
social reading habits
sociology
trade publishing

Product details

  • ISBN 9781350375147
  • Weight: 480g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other.
We live in an era when book clubs, bibliomemoirs, Bookstagram and BookTok are as valuable to some readers as solitary reading moments. The product of nearly two decades of qualitative research into readers and reading culture, What Readers Do examines reading through three dimensions - aesthetic conduct, moral conduct, and self-care – to show how readers intertwine private and social behaviors, and both reinforce and oppose the structures of capitalism. Analyzing reading as a post-digital practice that is a synthesis of both print and digital modes and on- and offline behaviors, Driscoll presents a methodology for studying readers that connects book history, literary studies, sociology, and actor-network theory. Arguing for the vitality, agency, and creativity of readers, this book sheds light on how we read now - and on how much more readers do than just read.
About Beth Driscoll
Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her publications to date have engaged closely with contemporary book culture, including The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and over 20 book chapters and journal articles in venues including Post45, Textual Practice, Qualitative Inquiry and Angelaki. She has worked on multiple collaborative research projects, the outcomes of which include The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business (with Claire Squires, 2020), Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First Century Book Culture (with Kim Wilkins and Lisa Fletcher, 2022), and The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (with Claire Squires, 2023).

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