Altick’s Map: The New Historiography of the Common Reader

Rose, Jonathan

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“…Liberal efforts to produce the sober reader as model citizen bear a close resemblance to early working class reading initiatives in nineteenthcentury Britain (Roberts 1998;Hobbs 2011). As Jonathan Rose (2001) and others have demonstrated, and as the South African case also confirms, these opportunities were frequently seized for an emancipatory purpose.…”

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“…The traces of reading and the spaces of book encounters in segregationist South Africa -suggested by a range of autobiographical and archival sources -point to the scarcity of books, the persistent hunger for books and the various strategies readers employed to access them. Key to this reading world are practices of indiscriminate, serendipitous, ad hoc, opportunistic and itinerant reading in the manner of many other autodidact traditions (Rose 2001;Fleming, Finklestein and McCleery 2011). In contexts of racial discrimination and material constraint, what emerges is a fugitive reading practice in which personal reading histories are derived not from careful selection but rather from what could be found, borrowed, taken, stolen or swapped.…”

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The appearance of the book: towards a history of the reading lives and worlds of black South African readers

Sandwith¹

2018

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This paper elucidates the material, spatial, social and infrastructural contexts of reading in early twentieth century South Africa. It adds to a growing body of work on reading practices and patterns of book consumption by drawing attention to the neglected question of the "where of reading" -the physical contexts and settings of reading and the ways in which the organisation of space and the allocation of resources impacted on particular reading experiences and habits. The article also takes up a related set of questions pertaining to the access of books, the nature of specific reading encounters, the social relations that developed in these contexts and the reading practices that ensued. It focuses in detail on the contexts of reading which developed around the various "Non-European" reading initiatives and advances the concepts of the "poor library" and "fugitive reading" in order to describe both the rudimentary and improvisational nature of black reading spaces at this time and the various practices of tactical, opportunistic and itinerant reading which arose in response. Finally, it draws attention to the sociable, convivial and inherently public nature of black reading encounters and highlights a pervasive practice of mediated reading in which book interests were shared and encouraged.

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The appearance of the book: towards a history of the reading lives and worlds of black South African readers

Sandwith¹

2018

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“…Den läshistoriker som intresserar sig för allmänhetens läsning måste använda många olika typer av material i sin forskning, skriver Jonathan Rose, allt från polisrapporter och testamenten till utlånings-och försäljningsstatistik, brev till redaktörer, minnesanteckningar från litterära sällskap, memoarer -och beundrarbrev till författare. 49 Medan den bildade borgerligheten och olika eliter är välrepresenterade i arkiven, så är material från de lägre samhällsklasserna ofta inte bevarat. I detta sammanhang är alltså breven till Selma Lagerlöf ett viktigt undantag.…”

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Lagerlöfs läsare. Allmänhetens brev till Selma Lagerlöf

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Karlsson²

2022

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Den här boken undersöker den unika samling med bevarade brev från allmänheten till Selma Lagerlöf skrivna under perioden 1891–1940. Tusentals människor från olika samhällskikt skrev till henne för att berätta om sina liv och om sin läsning. Hur använde de litteraturen? Och hur uppfattades Selma Lagerlöf i en tid präglad av förändringar? *** This book investigates a unique collection of letters: the many thousands of letters to Selma Lagerlöf from the public. During 1891 to 1940 people from all layers of society wrote to the famous author about their lives, and about their reading of her narratives. How did these people use literature, and how did they view the author, Selma Lagerlöf, in a time of change?

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Chambers

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Altick’s Map: The New Historiography of the Common Reader

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The appearance of the book: towards a history of the reading lives and worlds of black South African readers

The appearance of the book: towards a history of the reading lives and worlds of black South African readers

Lagerlöfs läsare. Allmänhetens brev till Selma Lagerlöf

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