Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955

• Autore: Grover Mary
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Disciplina: 028.909428210904
• Soggetto topico: Books and reading - England
• Soggetto geografico: England Social life and customs 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Sheffield; reading; oral history; working-class; popular literature
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Steel City Readers
• Titolo autorizzato: Steel City Readers
• ISBN: 1-83764-684-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910720868503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool English Texts and Studies