The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers

Book Overview

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages
Covers pornography and the origins of the transgender movementExplores everyday reading in Nazi GermanyAnalyses prison readingExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nations

Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474494889
• ISBN13: 9781474494885
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"