Steel City Readers Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955

• Tác giả: Mary Grover
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1802078589
• Thông tin xuất bản: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2023
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 377012
• Chủ đề: 1. 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; 2. British & Irish history; 3. Literary studies: from c 1900 -; 4. Local history; 5. Social & cultural history

Tóm tắt

Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers' own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structure traces reading journeys from childhood into education and adulthood, and attends to settings from home to school to library. It has a distinctive focus on reading for pleasure and its framework of argument situates that type of reading in relation to dimensions of gender and class. It is grounded in place, and particularly in the context of a specific industrial city: Sheffield. The men and women featured in the book, coming to adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s, rarely regarded reading as a means of self-improvement. It was more usually a compulsive and intensely pleasurable private activity.