Reading communities from salons to cyberspace /

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Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description:xiii, 218 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8534192
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Other authors / contributors:Rehberg Sedo, DeNel, 1965-
ISBN:9780230299887 (alk. paper)
0230299881 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to reading communities : processes and formations / DeNel Rehberg Sedo
  • Reading in an epistolary community in eighteenth-century England / Betty Schellenberg
  • Nineteenth century reading groups in Britain and the community of the text : an experiment with Little Dorrit / Jenny Hartley
  • Reading across the empire : the National Home Reading Union abroad / Robert Snape
  • Utopian civic-mindedness : Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the great books enterprise / Daniel Born
  • I used to read anything that caught my eye, but
  • : cultural authority and intermediaries in a virtual young adult book club / DeNel Rehberg Sedo
  • The growth of reading groups as a feminine leisure pursuit : cultural democracy or dumbing down? / Anna Kiernan
  • Speaking subjects : developing identities in book groups / Linsey Howie
  • Leading questions : interpretive guidelines in contemporary popular reading culture / Anna S. Ivy
  • Marionettes and puppeteers? : the relationship between book club readers and publishers / Danielle Fuller, Claire Squires & DeNel Rehberg Sedo.