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oapen-20.500.12657-630602024-04-03T15:44:07Z Steel City Readers Grover, Mary Sheffield; reading; oral history; working-class; popular literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WQ Local and family history, nostalgia::WQH Local history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTD Oral history thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britain 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. 2023-05-23T11:38:26Z 2023-05-23T11:38:26Z 2023 book 9781802078589 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63060 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Grover_9781837646845_webv2.pdf Liverpool University Press 4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc 9781802078589 288 Liverpool open access
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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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