Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955.
Grover, Mary.
Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (288 pages) - Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v.99 . - Liverpool English Texts and Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 At Home with Books -- 2 Running up Eyre Street: Independent Young Readers and the Public Libraries -- 3 Hefty Books and Tuppenny Weeklies -- 4 Reading Scenes: Social Networks and Reading -- 5 'Getting them learned': Books in the Classroom -- 6 The 1937 'Confession Book' of Mary Wilkinson: Reading and the Second World War -- 7 'You can read and dance': Reading in Early Adulthood -- 8 'Anna Karenina, you know, and all the normal things': Sheffield Readers, Classics and the Contemporary -- The Last Word -- Apendix 1: Interview Prompts -- Appendix 2: Informants and Interviewers -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781837646845
Electronic books.
028.909428210904
Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (288 pages) - Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v.99 . - Liverpool English Texts and Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 At Home with Books -- 2 Running up Eyre Street: Independent Young Readers and the Public Libraries -- 3 Hefty Books and Tuppenny Weeklies -- 4 Reading Scenes: Social Networks and Reading -- 5 'Getting them learned': Books in the Classroom -- 6 The 1937 'Confession Book' of Mary Wilkinson: Reading and the Second World War -- 7 'You can read and dance': Reading in Early Adulthood -- 8 'Anna Karenina, you know, and all the normal things': Sheffield Readers, Classics and the Contemporary -- The Last Word -- Apendix 1: Interview Prompts -- Appendix 2: Informants and Interviewers -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781837646845
Electronic books.
028.909428210904