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"Subversive Readers enriches our understanding of the multiple tensions that inform culturally specific acts of reading. This globally diverse collection of essays, written by young scholars as well as seasoned book historians, persuasively demonstrates how reading can be both a collective social practice and an intimately personal experience.--Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University 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.--Katherine Halsey, University of Stirling ""Library & Information History"""

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Jonathan Rose, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Drew University.

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