The Centre for the Book is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of Australian Humanities Review stemming form the ‘Revealing the Reader’ symposium.
The special issue brings together a number of articles stemming from papers delivered at the conference, and covers a wide range of interests in reading research including cultural studies, book history, literary studies, and creative writing. The specie issue is edited by Centre co-directors Anna Poletti and Patrick Spedding, and Rosalind McFarlane.
|Special Issue: Revealing the Reader: Table of Contents|
|Anna Poletti and Patrick Spedding||Introduction: Revealing the Reader|
|Part 1: Reading Histories|
|Susan K. Martin||Tracking Reading in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne Diaries|
|Amanda Laugesen||Journeys in Reading in Wartime: Some Australian Soldiers’ Reading Experiences in the First World War||
|Patrick Spedding||Eliza Haywood’s Eighteenth-Century Readers in Pennsylvania and New York|
|Patrick Spedding||Eliza Haywood’s Eighteenth-Century Readers: Appendixes||
|Part 2: Reading Communities|
|Robert Clarke and Marguerite Nolan||Book Clubs and Reconciliation: A Pilot Study on Book Clubs Reading the ‘Fictions of Reconciliation’|
|Tully Barnett||Social Reading: The Kindle’s Social Highlighting Function and Emerging Reading Practices||
|Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo||Reproducing ‘the Wow Factor’?: Negotiating the Values of Reading through One Book, One Community Events|
|Part 3: Reading Futures|
|Ali Alizadeh||The Subject Supposed to Read: the Case against the E-reader|