Abstracts
Abstract
Drawing on the archive of Fred Barkas (1854-1932), a middle-class New Zealand reader, the article explores how reading networks within local communities were established and how, where and when readers connected to other readers to form a local reading community. Barkas’ letters reveal an often unorganised and diffuse reading culture in Timaru, NZ, which was highly social and defined along such markers as social status and cultural capital. Readers connected in a variety of ways, interwoven into other activities within the local community and in spaces not traditionally associated with reading. The article concludes by asking how readers in New Zealand were also connected to other reading communities around the British World and formed part of a global reading community.
Résumé
À partir des archives privées de Fred Barkas (1854-1932), néo-zélandais de la classe moyenne, cet article étudie la formation des réseaux de lecteurs à l’intérieur des collectivités. Les lettres de Barkas mettent en évidence la représentation de l’activité qu’est la lecture à Timaru, en Nouvelle-Zélande, ainsi que sa dimension plutôt diffuse et peu organisée, sinon autour de facteurs tels le rang social et le capital culturel. On y voit de quelle façon un réseau de lecteurs s’est formé à Timaru, notamment par l’entremise d’autres activités que la lecture et dans des espaces qui ne sont pas traditionnellement associés à cette dernière. L’article se conclut par des observations sur les liens tissés entre les lecteurs néo-zélandais et d’autres lecteurs de par l’Empire britannique.
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