02413nam 22005293 450 991072086850332120230524084609.01-83764-684-810.3828/9781802078589(CKB)4920000002082262(MiAaPQ)EBC30259732(Au-PeEL)EBL30259732(NjHacI)994920000002082262(EXLCZ)99492000000208226220230524d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSteel City Readers Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-19551st ed.Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2023.©2023.1 online resource (288 pages)Liverpool English Texts and Studies ;v.991-80207-858-4 Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers' own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structure traces reading journeys from childhood into education and adulthood, and attends to settings from home to school to library. It has a distinctive focus on reading for pleasure and its framework of argument situates that type of reading in relation to dimensions of gender and class. It is grounded in place, and particularly in the context of a specific industrial city: Sheffield. The men and women featured in the book, coming to adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s, rarely regarded reading as a means of self-improvement. It was more usually a compulsive and intensely pleasurable private activity.Liverpool English Texts and StudiesSteel City Readers Books and readingEnglandEnglandSocial life and customs20th centurySheffieldreadingoral historyworking-classpopular literatureBooks and reading028.909428210904Grover Mary1357295MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910720868503321Steel City Readers3363010UNINA