Literacy and Historical Development A Reader

Name: Literacy and Historical Development A Reader
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ISBN: 9780809327829

ISBN-10: 0809327821

ISBN-13: 9780809327829

Edition: 2007

Authors: Harvey J. Graff, Deborah Brandt, M. T. Clanchy, Janet Duitsman Cornelius, Natalie Zemon Davis

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Representing three decades of research,Literacy and Historical Development: A Readerpresents some of the most important historical scholarship on literacy in Europe and the United States. The approaches, research, and conclusions reflected in this collection of fifteen essays has changed how historians and many others conceptualize literacy and represents a body of scholarship that is transforming both contemporary and historical literacy theories. nbsp; In this revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking volumeLiteracy and Social Development in the West,editor Harvey J. Graff provides a new introduction and nine new essays by nationally and internationally renowned contributors…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 12/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Harvey J. Graff is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History, Ohio State University, and the author of The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Society and Culture.



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Literacy, Myths, and Legacies: Lessons from the History of Literacy




Literate and Illiterate; Hearing and Seeing: England, 1066-1307




Some Conjectures about the Impact of Printing on Western Society and Thought: A Preliminary Report




The Importance of Being Printed




Printing and the People: Early Modern France




Oral Culture and the Diffusion of Reformation Ideas




The Literacy Myth? Illiteracy in Scotland, 1630-1760




First Steps in Literacy: The Reading and Writing Experiences of the Humblest Seventeenth-Century Spiritual Autobiographers




The History of Literacy in Sweden




Growth of Literacy in Colonial America: Longitudinal Patterns, Economic Models, and the Direction of Future Research




Dimensions of Illiteracy in England, 1750-1850




''We Slipped and Learned to Read": Slave Accounts of the Literacy Process, 1830-1865




Sense and Sensibility: A Case Study of Women's Reading in Late-Victorian America




Sponsors of Literacy




"Welcome to the Jam": Popular Culture, School Literacy, and the Making of Childhoods



Bibliography of the History of Literacy in Western Europe and North America


Contributors


Index