The Reading World of a Provincial Town: Preston, Lancashire 1855–1900

Decolonizing the reading landscape: A conversation with Kgauhelo Dube

“…In its new incarnation as mutable digital product, the work of literature is put into play as part of a range of new digital reading and interpretive contexts and connections in which many different kinds of texts, images, and interventions vie for attention. As several scholars have suggested, the particular settings and spaces of book display, diffusion, and consumption have an influence on the reading experience itself (Colclough, 2011; Darnton, 2011/1986; Hammond, 2006; Hobbs, 2011). In this regard, digital reading projects such as LongStorySHORT offer fresh possibilities for thinking through some of the implications of digitized reading environments.…”