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Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives (New Directions in Book History)
Towheed, Shafquat, King, Edmund
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Description for Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives (New Directions in Book History)
Hardcover. Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; DSBH; DSC; DSK; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.
Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Book History
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137302700
SKU
V9781137302700
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Towheed, Shafquat, King, Edmund
Jonathan Arnold, independent scholar, UK Jonathan Black, Kingston University, UK. Jim Cleary, Griffith University, Australia Emmanuel Debruyne, Université catholique de Louvain, France. Catherine Feely, University of Derby, UK. Edmund G.C. King, Open University, UK. Alisa Miller, Norwich University of the Arts, UK. Sara Mori, independent scholar, Italy Robert L. Nelson, University of Windsor, Canada Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University, ... Read more
Reviews for Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives (New Directions in Book History)
“This collection of 13 essays focuses on readership, representing the democratizing shift in literary research that is now a standard approach to the teaching of literary culture. … This book should be used by researchers working on the study of this war, as well as those working on book and publishing history, since the essays discuss little-known archival possibilities that ... Read more