How to do things with books in Victorian Britain / Leah Price.
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TextCopyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400842186
- 1400842182
- Bibel Ester
- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Books -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century
- Books -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Books and reading in literature
- Books in literature
- Livres et lecture -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Livres et lecture -- Grande-Bretagne -- Aspect psychologique -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Livres -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Livres -- Industrie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Livres et lecture dans la littérature
- Livres dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Book industries and trade
- Books and reading
- Books and reading in literature
- Books in literature
- Books -- Psychological aspects
- English fiction
- Great Britain
- Literatur
- Englisch
- Leser
- Großbritannien
- 1800-1899
- 028/.9094109034 23
- Z1003.5.G7 P75 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-325) and index.
Reader's block -- Anthony Trollope and the repellent book -- David Copperfield and the absorbent book -- It-narrative and the book as agent -- The book as burden : junk mail and religious tracts -- The book as go-between : domestic servants and forced reading -- The book as waste : Henry Mayhew and the fall of paper recycling.
Print version record.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, the book also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals.
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