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The           History of ReadingEdited           by Shafquat           Towheed, Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey Price: $47.95Binding/Format: PaperbackISBN: 978-0-415-48421-3Publish Date: August 3rd 2010Imprint: RoutledgePages: 480 pages The History of           Reading offers an engaging,         accessible overview from the rise of         literacy through to the current trend of ‘book clubs’.Divided into seven         sections, each         with a useful introduction, this Reader:summarises           the main debates and perspectives shaping the fieldintroduces           key theorists such as Iser, Fish and Bakhtinsurveys           influential works and outlines important studies on mass           readingfocuses           on specific communities such as Welsh miners, African American           library users and Australian convictslooks           at individual readers from a variety of countries, classes and           historical periodsconsiders           current research in the history of reading.Providing both a         clear introduction         to the history of the field and a taster of the breadth,         diversity and vitality         of current debates, this Reader is an essential resource         for         undergraduates, graduates, and researchers.Contents Section 1:           Defining the Field: What is the History of Reading? 1. From Fiction and the             Reading Public - Q.         D. Leavis 2. ‘First Steps Towards a History of Reading’ - Robert         Darnton 3.         Preface to The Order of             Books - Roger Chartier 4. ‘Was there a Reading         Revolution at the         End of the Eighteenth Century?’ - Reinhard Wittmann 5. 'Reading         in Late         Antiquity’ - John Moorehead Section             2: Theorising the Reader 6. ‘Literary         History as a Challenge to         Literary Theory’ - Hans Robert Jauss 7. ‘The Reading Process: A         Phenomenological Approach’ - Wolfgang Iser 8. ‘On the Politics         of Literature’ -         Judith Fetterley 9. ‘What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable?’ -         Stanley Fish         10. ‘Discourse in Poetry and Discourse in the Novel’ - Mikhail         Bakhtin 11.         'Silent Reading: its impact on Late Medieval Script and Society’         - Paul Saenger         12. ‘Reading as Poaching’ - Michel de Certeau Section 3:             Researching and Using Literacy 13.         ‘Literacy, trade and religion in the commercial centres of         Europe’ - Margaret         Spufford 14. ‘Dimensions of illiteracy in England, 1740-1850’ -         Roger S.         Schofield 15. ‘Reading and Writing’ - David Vincent 16.         ‘Studying the History         of Literacy’ - Carl F. Kaestle 17. ‘Summary of present         tendencies in mass         culture’- Richard Hoggart Section             4: Reading the Masses 18. From Reading             Revolutions: the Politics of Reading in Early             Modern England - Kevin Sharpe 19. ‘Constructing         New Reading Publics         in Late Ming China’ - Anne E. McLaren 20. ‘At the Boundaries of         the Reading         Nation’ - William St. Clair 21. ‘Contesting Print Audiences’ -         Anindita Ghosh         22. ‘The Literature of the Lubok’ - Jeffrey Brooks Section 5:             Reading Communities 23. ‘Reading and Reciting’ - Martyn Lyons with Lucy Taksa 24.         ‘Reading in the         Middle Ages’ - Armando Petrucci 25. ‘The Welsh Miners’         Libraries’ - Jonathan         Rose 26. '"A benefit and a blessing": The Sage Library’ -         Christine         Pawley 27. ‘"An Association of Kindred Spirits": Black Readers         and         their Reading Rooms’ - Elizabeth McHenry Section             6: Individual Readers 28. ‘"Studied for         Action": How         Gabriel Harvey read his Livy’- Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine         29. ‘The         Cultural Universe of a Dutch Child’ - Arianne Baggerman 30. ‘"R         R, A         Remarkable Thing of Action": John Dawson as a Reader and         Annotator’ -         Stephen Colclough 31. ‘Self-Development’ - James A. Secord Section 7: New             Directions and Methods             in the History of Reading 32. ‘New Methods         in the History of Reading:         "Answers to Correspondents" - Teresa Gerrard 33. ‘No longer left         behind: Amazon.com, reader-response, and the changing fortunes         of the Christian         novel in America’ - Paul C. Gutjahr 34. ‘Mata’s Hermeneutic:         Internationally         Made Ways of Reading Bunyan’ -Isabel Hofmeyr 35. ‘Listening to         the Readers of         "Canada Reads"’ - Danielle Fuller 36. 'The Reading Experience         Database 1450–1945 (RED)' - Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey, Mary         Hammond and         Shafquat TowheedShafquat           Towheed is         Lecturer in         English at The Open University, where he is also Project         Supervisor for The Reading             Experience Database,             1450-1945 (RED). He is the editor of The             Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan,             1901-1930 (2007), of New             Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 (2007).Rosalind           Crone is         Lecturer in         History at the Open University, where she is Co-Investigator on         the AHRC-funded         project, The Reading             Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED). She has         published widely on         popular culture, crime and literacy in the nineteenth-century,         and is co-editor         of New Perspectives             in             British Cultural History (2007).Katie           Halsey is         lecturer at the         University of Stirling. She has published several articles on         nineteenth-century literary culture, is currently co-editing a         collection of         essays on the subject of conversation in the long eighteenth         century, and         writing a monograph about Jane Austen’s readers.