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Striving to develop interdisciplinary dialogue, the essays in this work explore children's and young adult reading through the theoretical lens of "mediation." They interrogate how values and assumptions about the effects of reading underpin reading practices, facilitation of reading and the study of reading, literature and print culture.
List of contents
Introduction. "Mediation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying Reading"
Anne Marie Hagen
Part I - Historical Reading Practices
Chapter 1. "Socio-Economic Status and Varied Freedoms in Eighteenth-Century Childhood Reading"
Elspeth Jajdelska
Chapter 2. "Enlightenment Reading Lists: Domestic Curricula and the Organisation of Knowledge in Novels by Women"
Rebecca Davies
Part II - Programs and Collections
Chapter 3. "Mediating the Archives: Child Readers and Their Books in Special Collections"
Suzan Alteri
Chapter 4. "Bookbug: The Mediating Effect of Book Gifting in Scotland"
Emma Davidson & Tracy Cooper
Part III - Textual and Material Strategies
Chapter 5. "Reading Information: Using Graphic Language to Enhance Engagement with Children's Books"
Sue Walker
Chapter 6. "Mediating with Metafiction: Rethinking What Counts about Reading with Parents, Using Picturebooks"
Jennifer Farrar
Part IV - Texts, Worlds and Mediation
Chapter 7. "Mediating the Act of Reading through Picturebooks and Fictional Readers"
Evelyn Arizpe
Chapter 8. " 'My World Has Become Smaller' - Cortically Remapping Postfeminist Confinement in Louise O'Neill's Asking For It"
Fiona McCulloch
About the author
Edited by Anne Marie Hagen - Contributions by Susan Alteri; Evelyn Arizpe; Tracy Cooper; Emma Davidson; Rebecca Davies; Jennifer Farrar; Anne Marie Hagen; Elspeth Jajdelska; Fiona McCulloch and Sue Walker
