Australian Readers Remember: An Oral History of Reading, 1890-1930
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| Year of Publication |
1992
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230 pp.
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Oxford University Press
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Melbourne, Australia
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| ISBN |
9780195533040
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| Annotation |
Based on interviews with sixty elderly Australians.
Contents:
Introduction : a social history of reading
The Oral archive
Traditional literacy: the reading we have lost
General fiction: 'Enriching the rest'
The Poetry generation
Newspapers and magazines
The Liquorice years: children as readers
Non-fiction
Libraries, bookshops and other alternatives
Schools of arts : improving literature and the readers' revenge
Reading and the workplace
Pride and prejudice : some myths about readers
Under brown wrappers : illicit and unsuitable reading
Family culture, consumer culture.
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