The Cultural Sociology of Reading : The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World / / edited by María Angélica Thumala Olave |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (595 pages) |
Disciplina |
813.309355
306.488 |
Collana | Cultural Sociology |
Soggetto topico |
Culture
Sociology Books - History Sociology of Culture Sociological Theory History of the Book |
ISBN |
9783031132278
9783031132261 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction María Angélica Thumala Olave -- Part I. The project of a cultural sociology of reading -- Chapter 1. “Reading matters. A cultural sociology of reading” María Angélica Thumala Olave -- Part II. Reading, books and texts as iconic experience -- Chapter 2. “The Felt Value of Reading Zines” Ash Watson and Andy Bennett -- Chapter 3. “Between self and other: Anäis Nin’s transformative erotics” Jessica Widner -- Chapter 4. “Knowing through Feeling: The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading” Jan Vâna -- Chapter 5. “Book love. A cultural sociological interpretation of the attachment to books” María Angélica Thumala Olave -- Part III. Literary value, evaluation and cultural intermediaries -- Chapter 6. “Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority” Günther Leypoldt -- Chapter 7. “Readers and Reviewers: A Symbiotic Knot” Phillipa Chong -- Chapter 8. “The Courage to Continue: Reading and Motivating Intellectual Labors at University Presses” Joshua Silver -- Chapter 9. “Reviewing Strategies and the Normalization of Uncertain Texts” Álvaro Santana Acuña -- Chapter 10. “Customer reviews of 'highbrow' literature: a comparative reception study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger” Daniel Allington -- Part IV. Bookshops, sociability and the interplay of “high” and “consumer” culture -- Chapter 11. “On the sociability of books for an ethics of modern individuality: Taking Georg Simmel to a provincial English independent bookshop” Daniel R. Smith -- Chapter 12. “The Cultural Biography of the ‘Avant-Garde’: An Intellectual Bookstore and Post-Mao China’s High Culture Legacy” Eve Y. Lin -- Part V. Reading the social and the aesthetic public sphere -- Chapter 13. “The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere” Anna Michelson -- Chapter 14. “Reading Literature, Reading People, and Reading Risk during the Chinese Cultural Revolution” Eddy U -- Chapter 15. “Living the Global Color Line: Book Interpretations in Kabul as Insights into Transnational Social Structures” Syeda Masood -- Chapter 16. “From normative reading to interfaces of reading: The functions of reading in Chinese literature and society” Lena Henningsen. |
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In search of the utopian states of America : intentional communities in novels of the long nineteenth century / / Verena Adamik |
Autore | Adamik Verena |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 248 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.309355 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Utopianism |
Soggetto topico | Civilization - History |
ISBN | 3-030-60279-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. ‘An Achieved Utopia’: Introduction -- 2. ‘Notoriously a Tricky Term’: A Short History of the Term Utopia -- 3. ‘Idle Speculation’ and Utopian Practice: Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793) -- 4. ‘Between Fiction and Reality’: The Utopian Past in The Blithedale Romance (1852) -- 5. ‘A Great Republic of Equals’: Postbellum Utopia in Marie Howland’s Papa’s Own Girl (1874) -- 6. ‘Shrouded in an American Flag’: Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899) -- 7. ‘A Bold Regeneration’: W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) -- 8. ‘Like so Many Sparks from a Comet’: Utopian Visions and Their National Trajectory. |
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Adamik Verena
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In Search of the Utopian States of America : Intentional Communities in Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century / / by Verena Adamik |
Autore | Adamik Verena |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Springer International Publishing, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 248 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.309355 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Utopianism |
Soggetto topico |
United States - History
Intellectual life - History Civilization - History America - Literatures US History Intellectual History Cultural History North American Literature |
ISBN | 3-030-60279-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. ‘An Achieved Utopia’: Introduction -- 2. ‘Notoriously a Tricky Term’: A Short History of the Term Utopia -- 3. ‘Idle Speculation’ and Utopian Practice: Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793) -- 4. ‘Between Fiction and Reality’: The Utopian Past in The Blithedale Romance (1852) -- 5. ‘A Great Republic of Equals’: Postbellum Utopia in Marie Howland’s Papa’s Own Girl (1874) -- 6. ‘Shrouded in an American Flag’: Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899) -- 7. ‘A Bold Regeneration’: W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) -- 8. ‘Like so Many Sparks from a Comet’: Utopian Visions and Their National Trajectory. |
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Adamik Verena
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Playing the races : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / / Henry B. Wonham |
Autore | Wonham Henry B. <1960-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina |
813/.309355
813.309355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Race in literature Caricatures and cartoons - United States - History - 19th century Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature Ethnicity in literature Realism in literature |
ISBN |
0-19-028988-0
0-19-803664-7 9786610532773 1-280-53277-7 1-60256-947-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820937403321 |
Wonham Henry B. <1960->
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
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The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885 : Jeffersonian Afterlives / / by Peter Templeton |
Autore | Templeton Peter |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
Disciplina |
828.10809
813.309355 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
America - Literatures United States - History Nineteenth-Century Literature North American Literature US History |
ISBN | 3-030-04888-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Pastoral Ideal of Thomas Jefferson -- The Pastoral Double Plot of Swallow Barn -- The Cavalier Cartography of The Kentuckian in New-York -- Strange Temporality of Pastoral in The Partisan Leader -- John Esten Cooke and Democratic Pastoral -- Domestic Pastoral in The Holcombes -- Joel Chandler Harris and the Pastoral of the New South -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484666703321 |
Templeton Peter
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