The History of Reading, Volume 3 : Methods, Strategies, Tactics

We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized society. -- [(source)][1] [1]: http://www.palgrave.com/fr/book/9780230247567 Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 10 List of Figures......Page 12 List of Tables......Page 14 Foreword......Page 16 Acknowledgements......Page 19 Notes on Contributors......Page 20 Introduction......Page 24 Part 1 Perspectives......Page 36 1 Altick's Map: The New Historiography of the Common Reader......Page 38 2 Commodity Readers: An Introduction to a Frame for Reading......Page 50 Part 2 Methods and Tactics......Page 70 3 Between the Book and the Reader: The Uses of Reading for the Gratification of Personal Psychosocial Needs......Page 72 4 One Reader, Two Votes: Retooling Fan Mail Scholarship......Page 89 5 The Mediation of Response: A Critical Approach to Individual and Group Reading Practices......Page 103 Part 3 Interpretive Strategies......Page 120 6 Representing Reading Spaces......Page 122 7 A Book of One's Own: Examples of Library Book Marginalia......Page 138 Part 4 Reading the Visual......Page 156 8 Reading Ephemera......Page 158 9 Books in Photographs......Page 179 Part 5 Reading in the Digital Age......Page 198 10 Filipino Blogs as Evidence of Reading and Reception......Page 200 11 Reading the Book of Mozilla: Web Browsers and the Materiality of Digital Texts......Page 219 Further Reading and Weblinks......Page 238 Index......Page 241 How do we know who reads what? How do we accurately record the everyday practices of readers, both in the past and today? This volume brings together a representative sample of some of the best new research in the History of Reading currently being undertaken today. Unlike other works on the subject, this volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading across the world, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized world. With chapters examining a range of sources from Filipino blogs to Internet browsers, and from interviews with members of reading groups to a study of the photographic representation of books and reading, The History of Reading, Vol. 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics provides a wide-ranging and thought provoking examination of this burgeoning field. A wide-ranging critical introduction encourages readers to consider how the history of reading might develop in the digital twenty-first century NL-ZmNBD