Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides the first detailed scholarly investigation of the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves (and the social practices around them) since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. With a foreword by Lydia Pyne, author of Bookshelf (2016), the volume br...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | New Directions in Book History
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 6: ‘You Can Look but You Can’t Touch: Representations of the Materiality of the Printed Book on Screen’, Amanda Lastoria (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Chapter 7: ‘Bookish Objects on the Bookshelf’, Emily Baulch (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Chapter 8: ‘Writing with Spines: Bookshelf Art, Found Poetry, and the Practice of Assemblage’ Claire Battershill (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Section 3: Libraries, pedadogy and reading during the pandemic.-Chapter 9: ‘Books, reading and #parentinginapandemic’ Corinna Norrick-Rühl (University of Münster, Germany)
- Chapter 10: ‘A Bookshelf of the World. Bringing Students’ Books inside the Classroom: a Means for Epistemic Democracy?’, Nelleke Moser (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)
- Chapter 11: ‘Online Learning, Library Access and Bookcase Insecurity: A German Case Study’ Chandni Ananth, Ellen Barth, Laura Ntoumanis and Natalia Tolpstopyat (University of Münster, Germany)
- Chapter 12: ‘ “Ummmmm, guys? Don't microwave your books”: Readers, Authors, and Institutions in #PandemicReading Tweets’ Leah Henrickson (University of Leeds, UK)
- Foreword, Lydia Pyne
- Introduction, Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed
- Section 1: Private and public reading spaces
- Chapter 1: ‘An examination of Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic as a liminal space’, Shafquat Towheed (The Open University, UK)
- Chapter 2: ‘Crisis Book Browsing: Restructuring the Retail Shelf Life of Books’, Kenna MacTavish (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Chapter 3: ‘Your Bookshelf is Problematic’: Progressive and Problematic Publishing in the Age of COVID-19' Chiara Bullen (University of Stirling, Scotland)
- Chapter 4: ‘Old Books on New Media: Reader Responses to The Thorn Birds and Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Jennifer Burek Pierce (Universit of Iowa, USA)
- Section 2: Material culture on screen
- Chapter 5: ‘Zoom as a Digital Medium: Bookshelves in Backgrounds throughout History’ Paizha Stoothoff (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)