Expanding the American mind : books and the popularization of knowledge /
Beth Luey also looks at the readers of popularizations - their motivations for reading, the ways they evaluate nonfiction, and how they choose what to read. This is the first book to use surveys and online reader responses to study nonfiction reading. It also compares the experience of reading serio...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2010
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Table of Contents:
- Non : the prefix that changes what, and how, we read
- A brief history of popularization
- A highly educated public
- From Snow to Sokal
- Academic philanthropists
- Writing to be read
- From author to reader
- Why we read