Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850-1920s

Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850-1920s

Dick, Archie L.

Paperback

Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Business of Writing

ISBN10: 1108814700
ISBN13: 9781108814706
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 26 2020
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of Parliamentary grants to establish public libraries in country towns and villages nurtured a lively reading culture. A condition was that the library should be open free-of-charge to the general public. This became one more reading space, and others included book societies, reading societies, literary societies, debating societies, mechanics institutes, and mutual improvement societies. This Element explains how reading communities used these spaces to promote cultural and literary development in a unique ethos of improvement, and to raise political awareness in South Africa's colonial transition to a Union government and racial segregation.

Also in

Business of Writing

View All