Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton. She is a senior member of the management group of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘The Reading Experience Database, 1800-1945’. She is the author of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012 (Ashgate, 2015) and Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Ashgate, 2006). She is also the co-editor of three books, including, Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book Hstory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Taken together, the four volumes of The Edinburgh History of Reading constitute a fascinating compendium of research on readers and reading. […] The volumes successfully demonstrate the diversity of their subjects’ encounters with texts of all kinds, and highlight the importance of reading as both shared cultural practice and intensely individual experience.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Mary HammondChapter 1. The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Christopher FergusonChapter 2. The book as prop in the missionary imagination: picturing Africans as readers, Natalie Fossey and Lize KrielChapter 3. Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871), his Reading, and his Library, Karen AttarChapter 4. Gladstone Reads his Contemporaries, Michael WheelerChapter 5. Reading while Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century, Mary HammondChapter 6. The empire reads back: Travel, exploration and the British World in the 18th and 19th Centuries, John McAleerChapter 7. ‘Knowledge of Books, Appreciation of Literature’: Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era, Christine Pawley Chapter 8. Papers, Posters, and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War, Simon EliotChapter 9. Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Liebman and America’s Post-war Therapeutic Faith, Cheryl OestreicherChapter 10. Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Joan Shelley RubinChapter 11. Remaking the World through Reading: Books, Readers, and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945 to 1970, Amanda LaugesenChapter 12. Amazing Stories 1950-1953: The Readers Behind the Covers, Angelle WhaversChapter 13. The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the present, Cait CokerChapter 14. ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A methodology for literary reading in the 21st Century, Philip Davis and Josie BillingtonBibliography of works cited and suggested further readingIndex of Methods and SourcesGeneral Index

Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at University of Southampton. She is a senior member of the management group of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘The Reading Experience Database, 1800-1945’. She is the author of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012 (Ashgate, 2015) and Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Ashgate, 2006). She is also the co-editor of three books, including, Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book Hstory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Taken together, the four volumes of The Edinburgh History of Reading constitute a fascinating compendium of research on readers and reading. […] The volumes successfully demonstrate the diversity of their subjects’ encounters with texts of all kinds, and highlight the importance of reading as both shared cultural practice and intensely individual experience.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Mary HammondChapter 1. The Rise of Night Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Christopher FergusonChapter 2. The book as prop in the missionary imagination: picturing Africans as readers, Natalie Fossey and Lize KrielChapter 3. Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871), his Reading, and his Library, Karen AttarChapter 4. Gladstone Reads his Contemporaries, Michael WheelerChapter 5. Reading while Travelling in the Long Nineteenth Century, Mary HammondChapter 6. The empire reads back: Travel, exploration and the British World in the 18th and 19th Centuries, John McAleerChapter 7. ‘Knowledge of Books, Appreciation of Literature’: Reading Choices of Aspiring American Librarians in the Progressive Era, Christine Pawley Chapter 8. Papers, Posters, and Pamphlets: UK Readers in the Second World War, Simon EliotChapter 9. Peace of Mind in the Age of Anxiety: Rabbi Joshua Liebman and America’s Post-war Therapeutic Faith, Cheryl OestreicherChapter 10. Reading and Classical Music in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Joan Shelley RubinChapter 11. Remaking the World through Reading: Books, Readers, and the Global Project of Modernity, 1945 to 1970, Amanda LaugesenChapter 12. Amazing Stories 1950-1953: The Readers Behind the Covers, Angelle WhaversChapter 13. The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the present, Cait CokerChapter 14. ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A methodology for literary reading in the 21st Century, Philip Davis and Josie BillingtonBibliography of works cited and suggested further readingIndex of Methods and SourcesGeneral Index