Reading Home Cultures Through Books

Book Overview

This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367689162
• ISBN13: 9780367689162
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"