The Cultural Sociology of Reading

Introduction María Angélica Thumala Olave.-
Part I. The project of a cultural sociology of reading
.- Chapter 1. Reading matters. A cultural sociology of reading María Angélica Thumala Olave.-
Part II. Reading, books and texts as iconic experience
.- Chapter 2. The Felt Value of Reading Zines Ash Watson and Andy Bennett.- Chapter 3. Between self and other: Anäis Nin s transformative erotics Jessica Widner.- Chapter 4. Knowing through Feeling: The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading Jan Vâna.- Chapter 5. Book love. A cultural sociological interpretation of the attachment to books María Angélica Thumala Olave.-
Part III. Literary value, evaluation and cultural intermediaries
.- Chapter 6. Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority Günther Leypoldt.- Chapter 7. Readers and Reviewers: A Symbiotic Knot Phillipa Chong.- Chapter 8. The Courage to Continue: Reading and Motivating Intellectual Labors at University Presses Joshua Silver.- Chapter 9. Reviewing Strategies and the Normalization of Uncertain Texts Álvaro Santana Acuña.- Chapter 10. Customer reviews of 'highbrow' literature: a comparative reception study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger Daniel Allington.-
Part IV. Bookshops, sociability and the interplay of high and consumer culture
.- Chapter 11. On the sociability of books for an ethics of modern individuality: Taking Georg Simmel to a provincial English independent bookshop Daniel R. Smith.- Chapter 12. The Cultural Biography of the `Avant-Garde : An Intellectual Bookstore and Post-Mao China s High Culture Legacy Eve Y. Lin.-
Part V. Reading the social and the aesthetic public sphere
.- Chapter 13. The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere Anna Michelson.- Chapter 14. Reading Literature, Reading People, and Reading Risk during the Chinese Cultural Revolution Eddy U.- Chapter 15. Living the Global Color Line: Book Interpretations in Kabul as Insights into Transnational Social Structures Syeda Masood.- Chapter 16. From normative reading to interfaces of reading: The functions of reading in Chinese literature and society Lena Henningsen.