Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
ISBN-10
1108814700
ISBN-13
9781108814706
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 2020
Print length
75 Pages
Weight
112 grams
Dimensions
12.70 x 17.70 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social & cultural historyColonialism & imperialism
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This Element explains how reading communities in South Africa used library spaces to promote cultural and literary development in a unique ethos of improvement, and to raise political awareness in South Africa's colonial transition to a Union government and racial segregation.
Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of Parliamentary grants to establish public libraries in country towns and villages nurtured a lively reading culture. A condition was that the library should be open free-of-charge to the general public. This became one more reading space, and others included book societies, reading societies, literary societies, debating societies, mechanics institutes, and mutual improvement societies. This Element explains how reading communities used these spaces to promote cultural and literary development in a unique ethos of improvement, and to raise political awareness in South Africa''s colonial transition to a Union government and racial segregation.
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