Reading and the Victorians |
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| Author:
| Bradley, Matthew
John, Juliet |
| Series title: | The Nineteenth Century Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4094-4081-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
| Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing, Limited
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $109.95 |
Book Description:
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Bringing together historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians and historians of the book, Reading and the Victorians examines the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. The contributors stress the continuities and the conflicts between the Victorian period and our own, in essays that examine nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary and material contexts, and also ask questions about...
More DescriptionBringing together historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians and historians of the book, Reading and the Victorians examines the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. The contributors stress the continuities and the conflicts between the Victorian period and our own, in essays that examine nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary and material contexts, and also ask questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.