Edinburgh History of Reading

Description:

"Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists."--

subjects: Books and reading,  History,  Publishers and publishing,  Popular culture,  Intellectual life,  Authors and readers,  Livres et lecture,  Histoire,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  General,  English literature,  History and criticism,  Political aspects,  People with social disabilities,  Prisoners