The Edinburgh History of Reading

Mary Hammond, Jonathan Rose (eds.)The Edinburgh History of Reading, 4 volumes, (Edinburg University Press, 2020)

Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient.  It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring.