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

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

Grover, Mary

Paperback

Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Book 99

Literary CriticismGeneral Science

ISBN10: 1802078584
ISBN13: 9781802078589
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jun 1 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

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.

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