中欧の読書の歴史を脱中心化する（全２巻）第１巻：長い１９世紀のチェコ De-Centring the History of Reading : Volume 1, The Czech Lands in the Long 19th Century

著者名：Wögerbauer, Michael (EDT)/Madl, Claire (EDT)/Å mejkalová, Jiřina (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2026/10/14発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783032294081
• eISBN：9783032294098

Description

This volume is part of Decentring the History of Reading, a two-volume project that rethinks the history of reading from a Central European perspective. Focusing on sources and contexts often overlooked in Western European models, the case studies show how reading practices developed in a multilingual, politically contested, and institutionally regulated environment. Covering the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the contributions in the first volume explore readers’ engagement with print amid Enlightenment reforms, confessional tensions, emerging national movements, and the rise of the working class.

A case-study approach highlights the diversity of reading practices across social groups, linguistic communities, and institutional settings. Particular attention is given to the interplay between cultural policies and movements—education, censorship, nation-building—and everyday reading. Under conditions of limited access and shifting hierarchies, reading emerges as a practice of negotiation, appropriation, social engagement and participation. The volume offers fresh perspectives on the formation of modern reading cultures and will interest scholars of book history, literary and cultural studies, and the social life of texts. 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: ‘Reading for All’ in the Eighteenth Century? The Habsburg Reading Policy and Implementation of Compulsory Primary Education.- Chapter 3: Offering Goethe’s Werther to Readers of the Key to Heaven: Market Inventories, Itinerant Trade, and the Social Profile of the Bohemian Reader.- Chapter 4: Humanismus Redivivus: Reading and Historical Literacy in Czech Society (1780–1820).- Chapter 5: Allegories of Reading: How Fictional Readers Engage with the Criticisms of Reading Fiction.- Chapter 6: ‘Worthless Books Were Not Loaned at All’: The Specific Character of the Working-Class Reader at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.