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Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780230308848
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 028/.9
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Contents:
Cover -- Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace -- 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 Club -- 6 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.
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Cover -- Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace -- 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 Club -- 6 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.

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