Reading home cultures through books. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Marija Dalbello.
• Editors: Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti; Dalbello, Marija
• Contents: Introduction: HOW TO READ HOME CULTURES THROUGH BOOKS? Marija Dalbello and Kirsti Salmi-Niklander PART I: HISTORIES Chapter 1: IMMIGRANTS BEING AT HOME IN LIBRARIES. HOW THE IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT THEIR HOME TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Marija Dalbello Chapter 2: LITERACY, ABC BOOKS AND PRIMARY READERS IN FINNISH IMMIGRANT HOMES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE U.S. Kirsti Salmi-Niklander Chapter 3: "A PARADE OF HOME." REPRESENTATIONS OF HOME IN GREEK AMERICAN COMMUNITY ALBUMS Maria Kaliambou PART II: TRANSFORMATION Chapter 4: BOOKS AND THE CREATION OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS HOME IN AMERICAN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOMESTIC FICTION Johanna McElwee Chapter 5: SIMULATING DOMESTIC SPACE IN 1990S TECHNOCULTURE: TIMOTHY LEARY’S VIRTUAL HOME LIBRARY James A Hodges Chapter 6: BOOKSHELVES CREATE A COZY ATMOSPHERE: AFFECTIVE AN EMOTIONAL MATERIALITY IN BOOKREADING PRACTICES Anna Kajander PART III: L’ENVOI Chapter 7: WRITING HOME CULTURES THROUGH BOOKS IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC Patience and Fortitude in the First Person (Marija Dalbello) My Library as a Second Home (Kirsti Salmi-Niklander) Touching the Books (Maria Kaliambou) My Bookcase, My Anchor; or Some Reflections on My (Zoom) Background (Johanna McElwee) What We Lose When We Work From Home (James A. Hodges) Listening to Books through Lockdown (Anna Kajander)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 028.9; Books and reading; Books and reading -- Social aspects; Home; Families; Immigrants -- Books and reading
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000538984; 9781000538915; 9781003139591
• Related ISBNs: 9780367689131
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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