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Who is the reader? How do we reach them, and why? To what extent are readers determining what libraries offer? How has that changed since the birth of reader development? And what impact has organizational development had on the publishing and promotion of literature? This edited collection covers all aspects of literature in relation to readership, exploring the chain of events connecting author and reader. It reflects on the challenges facing information professionals in reader development, looks at current promotion and partnership options, and offers new professionals and students fresh ideas, practical guidance and a firm underpinning knowledge upon which to build.These user-friendly and clearly structured contributions bring together the work of expert practitioners and academics from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Key topics include: regional partnerships and reader development strategies; social inclusion and accessibility; emergent readers and social regeneration; the roles of imaginative fiction in people's lives; imaginative literature for children and young people; imaginative literature for adults; reading and information technology; promoting books to readers; and, sharing the knowledge - developing reflective practitioners. This contemporary guide is essential reading for library and information professionals, students and researchers. It will also be of great value to students taking literature and publishing courses.
Reading promotion. --- Books and reading. --- Library users. --- Authors and readers. --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Library customers --- Library patrons --- Patrons of libraries --- Readers (Library users) --- Reading public (Library users) --- Users of libraries --- Persons --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Promotion of reading --- Publicity --- Books and reading --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Information user --- Sociology of cultural policy --- allochtone jongeren --- leesbevordering
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This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives-historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
Book history --- South Africa --- Publishers and publishing --- Books and reading --- South African literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Book publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Publishing. --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Publishing
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This book focuses on the importance of reading for pleasure and the difference that it can make to a person's life chances, with a focus upon how libraries and librarians help reluctant and struggling readers.
Human rights --- Orthopedagogics --- reading culture --- lezen --- leesbevordering --- Reading. --- Reading --- Language arts --- Elocution --- Study and teaching --- Reading promotion. --- Children --- Teenagers --- Literacy programs. --- Books and reading. --- Books and reading for children --- Reading interests of children --- Literacy campaigns --- National literacy campaigns --- National literacy programs --- Reading programs (Literacy) --- Literacy --- Promotion of reading --- Publicity --- Books and reading --- Government policy
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In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels. Michals considers how historically specific ideas about age shaped not only the readership of novels, but also the ways that characters are represented within them. Arguing that age is first understood through social status, and later through the ideal of psychological development, the book examines the new determination of authors at the end of the nineteenth century, such as Henry James, to write for an audience of adults only. In these novels and in their reception, a world of masters and servants became a world of adults and children.
Comparative literature --- Fiction --- English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Adulthood in literature. --- Children in literature. --- English fiction --- Children's literature, English --- Books and reading --- Children --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- History --- History. --- American fiction --- Children's literature --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appreciation --- Appraisal --- Evaluation
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Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place where histories of race and histories of books intersect is in the minds and bodies of readers. Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and historical phenomenology, this book provides a detailed case study of printed romances and works by Montalvo, Heliodorus, Amyot, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Munday, Burton, Sidney and Wroth. Reading and the History of Race traces ways in which print culture and the reading practices it encouraged, contributed to shifting understandings of racial and ethnic identity.
Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Race awareness --- Books and reading --- Race awareness in literature. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnic attitudes --- History --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Intellectual life --- Blacks in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Negroes in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature. --- Race awareness. --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- Arts and Humanities
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Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The Medieval Manuscript Book redresses this by focusing on aspects of the medieval book in its cultural situations. Written by experts in the study of the handmade book before print, this volume combines bibliographical expertise with broader insights into the theory and praxis of manuscript study in areas from bibliography to social context, linguistics to location, and archaeology to conservation. The focus of the contributions ranges widely, from authorship to miscellaneity, and from vernacularity to digital facsimiles of manuscripts. Taken as a whole, these essays make the case that to understand the manuscript book it must be analyzed in all its cultural complexity, from production to transmission to its continued adaptation.
Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- manuscripts [documents] --- anno 500-1499 --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Transmission of texts --- Books and reading --- Literature, Medieval --- History --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- 091 --- 091 "04/14" --- 091 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- 091 "04/14" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Middeleeuwen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Middeleeuwen --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Medieval manuscripts --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Social aspects.
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"Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy. Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscription is found, attributing ownership to a certain Angelica Baldachini. The discovery sets in motion a series of inquiries, deploying knowledge about calligraphy, orthography, linguistics, dialectology and the socio-psychology of writing, to reveal the person behind the name. Focusing as much on the possible owner as upon the thing owned, Angelica's Book examines the genesis of the Piacevoli Notti and its many editions, including the one in question. The intertwined stories of the book and its owner are set against the backdrop of a Renaissance world, still imperfectly understood, in which literature and reading were subject to regimes of control; and the new information throws aspects of this world into further relief, especially in regard to women's involvement with reading, books and knowledge. The inquiry yields unexpected insights concerning the logic of accidental discovery, the nature of evidence, and the mission of the humanities in a time of global crisis. Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy is a thought-provoking read for any scholar of early modern Europe and its culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
E-books --- Books and reading --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History --- Social aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Baldachini, Angelica --- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, --- Books and reading. --- History of civilization --- History of Italy --- reading culture --- anno 1400-1499 --- European literature --- Renaissance --- History. --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern
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The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's 'The Seasons'; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, 'The Athenaeum'. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.
Book history --- English literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 820 --- 76 <41> --- Engelse literatuur --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Books --- Books and reading --- Printing --- History. --- Criticism, Textual. --- History --- 76 <41> Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 820 Engelse literatuur --- 820 English literature. Literature in English --- English literature. Literature in English --- Literature publishing --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Publishing --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Bibliographical matters. --- Critical and editorial fortunes. --- Cultural literacy. --- Engraved media. --- Literary texts. --- Print culture genres. --- Print culture. --- Publishing practices. --- Sandro Jung. --- Seventeenth to nineteenth century. --- British literature --- Prints, British. --- History and criticism.
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Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; Derek Pearsall is Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal,Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya., John J. Thompson.
Book history --- anno 500-1499 --- 09 <082 EDWARDS, A.S.G.> --- 091 --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--EDWARDS, A.S.G. --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Buchproduktion. --- Textproduktion. --- Leser. --- Edwards, Anthony Stockwell Garfield, --- Großbritannien --- Großbritannien. --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Books and reading --- Books --- History --- Edwards, A. S. G. --- 091 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Literary patrons --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--EDWARDS, A.S.G --- Early printed books --- Incunabula --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Edwards, Anthony S. G. --- Edwards, Tony, --- Manuscripts, Medieval - History --- Books and reading - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Books and reading - Europe - History --- Books and reading - England - History --- Books - History - 400-1450 --- Books - History - 1450-1600 --- Edwards, A. S. G. - (Anthony Stockwell Garfield), - 1942 --- -Manuscripts, Medieval --- -Buchproduktion. --- Book Culture. --- Chaucer. --- Langland. --- Medieval Manuscripts. --- Medieval Texts. --- Merchant Patronage. --- Nicholas Love. --- Woman Patron.
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The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary study explores its increasing popularity and prestige, offering a full account of the Book of Hours as a book - how it was acquired, how it was read to guide prayer and teach literacy and what it meant to its owners as a personal possession. Based on the study of over 500 manuscripts and printed books from France, Virginia Reinburg combines a social history of the Book of Hours with an ethnography of prayer. Approaching the practice of prayer as both speech and ritual, she argues that a central part of the Book of Hours' appeal for lay people was its role as a bridge between the liturgy and the home. Reinburg describes how the Book of Hours shaped religious practice through the ways in which it was used.
Book history --- Christian religion --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- France --- -Books and reading --- -091:264-13*2 --- 264-13 --- 248.143 --- 094 <44> --- Horae (Books of hours) --- Hours, Books of --- Brevieren. Getijdenboeken. Psalteria --- Gebed. Bidden --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Frankrijk --- 094 <44> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Frankrijk --- 248.143 Gebed. Bidden --- 264-13 Brevieren. Getijdenboeken. Psalteria --- Books and reading --- Books of hours --- 091:264-13*2 --- Illustrated books --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- 091:264-13*2 Getijdenboeken--(handschriften) --- Getijdenboeken--(handschriften) --- Social aspects&delete& --- History --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Livres d'heures --- Livres et lecture --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Books. --- Books and reading. --- Books of hours. --- History. --- Social aspects. --- 400-1600. --- France. --- Early printed books --- Incunabula --- Geschichte 1400-1600. --- Arts and Humanities
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