Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… of society as a whole relied more and more on rising levels of literacy. Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Clubs Family Fiction Streets While reading might be seen as a solitary act of perception, contributing to the … The proliferation of various official or informal associations revolving around books (academies, circulating libraries, clubs, societies, etc.) running parallel to the intensively growing market (print, book-sellers), testifies to the rising … of reading was so strong that it easily dominated over the individual and solitary act, for instance in some of the book clubs, particularly those popular with men. These were places where talking, drinking and other forms of conviviality …
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