The Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers

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Contents
Figures, Plates and Tables
Contributors
Introduction
	Mary Hammond
1. The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain
	Christopher Ferguson
2. The Book as Prop in the Missionary Imagination: Picturing Africans as Readers
	Natalie Fossey and Lize Kriel
3. Augustus De Morgan (1806–71), His Reading and His Library
	Karen Attar
4. William Gladstone Reads His Contemporaries
	Michael Wheeler
5. Reading While Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century
	Mary Hammond
6. The Empire Reads Back: Travel, Exploration and the British World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
	John McAleer
7. ‘Knowledge of books’ and ‘Appreciation of literature’: Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era
	Christine Pawley
8. Papers, Posters and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War
	Simon Eliot
9. Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America’s Post-war Therapeutic Faith
	Cheryl Oestreicher
10. Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
	Joan Shelley Rubin
11. Remaking the World Through Reading: Books, Readers and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945–70
	Amanda Laugesen
12. Amazing Stories, 1950–3: The Readers Behind the Covers
	Angelle Whavers
13. The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the Present
	Cait Coker
14. ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A Methodology for Literary Reading in the Twenty-First Century
	Philip Davis and Josie Billington
Select Bibliography
Index of Methods and Sources
General Index