{"product_id":"the-edinburgh-history-of-reading-jonathan-rose-9781474461917","title":"The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers pornography and the origins of the transgender movement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores everyday reading in Nazi Germany\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyses prison reading\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474461913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474461917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Jonathan Rose","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073002533119,"sku":"9781474461917","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1eb4151b-0f07-48e2-962e-d6b3dcba9d30.jpg?v=1685445222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-edinburgh-history-of-reading-jonathan-rose-9781474461917","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}