Steel City Readers
Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; 99;
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Product details:
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Date of Publication 1 June 2023
- ISBN 9781802078589
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 434 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 508
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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.
\?This is a fascinating and important study. It will be a rich and rare resource. Mary Grover has done a superb job illuminating the meaning of reading in individual lives as well as giving us insights into the local and national contexts.\? - Alison Light, author of Common People: The History of an English Family
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