Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development (Paperback)

Introduction 1. The Charted Waters of Reading: How Reading is Claimed, Researched and Defined by Different Fields 2. Reading and Adult Life 3. How We Learnt to Read 4. Literature and Literacy Development 5. Reading Circles 6. Researching a Reading Circle: What We Did 7. Researching a Reading Circle: What We Found 8. Reading as Experience 9. Reading Circles as 'Ideal Pedagogy' 10. The Individual and the Communal 11. The Pleasures and Politics of Novel Reading and Reading Circles Conclusion Index