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Author: Adelene Buckland ,
Beth Palmer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781409400271
ISBN 10: 1409400271
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 28 April 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'The essays in this volume powerfully document the significance of books and print across time, space and genre in the Victorian era, opening doors on readers and reading in private and public places, from miners and middle-class readers to prisons, barracks, overseas clubs and libraries. A pleasure to read, informative and enlightening, it will prove indispensable in shaping future directions in reading history studies.' David Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University, UK 'In light of this collection, the history of reading certainly does gain weight if we conceive it as a repository of methodologies that we may apply directly to our scholarly work... Linking the novel to the world as they show how forms effect meaning, such reading practices are already richly evident in these essays.' N-BOL19 'Th[is] collection is well-placed within the history of reading... While each of the case studies presented in this book is substantial on its own, their combination in one place underlines the complexity of the concept of the 'common reader' and offers a rich resource of methodologies on how we may approach the history of reading.' Zeitschrift fur Anglistik and Amerikanistik '... the volume does a great job of reminding us how Altick put before his own readership a sense of the range, both light and serious, of textual materials available to nineteenth-century members of the working and middle-classes.' Victorian Studies
'The essays in this volume powerfully document the significance of books and print across time, space and genre in the Victorian era, opening doors on readers and reading in private and public places, from miners and middle-class readers to prisons, barracks, overseas clubs and libraries. A pleasure to read, informative and enlightening, it will prove indispensable in shaping future directions in reading history studies.' David Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University, UK 'In light of this collection, the history of reading certainly does gain weight if we conceive it as a repository of methodologies that we may apply directly to our scholarly work... Linking the novel to the world as they show how forms effect meaning, such reading practices are already richly evident in these essays.' N-BOL19 'Th[is] collection is well-placed within the history of reading... While each of the case studies presented in this book is substantial on its own, their combination in one place underlines the complexity of the concept of the 'common reader' and offers a rich resource of methodologies on how we may approach the history of reading.' Zeitschrift fA1/4r Anglistik and Amerikanistik '... the volume does a great job of reminding us how Altick put before his own readership a sense of the range, both light and serious, of textual materials available to nineteenth-century members of the working and middle-classes.' Victorian Studies
Author Information
Beth Palmer is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. Adelene Buckland is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK. Beth Palmer, Adelene Buckland, Laurel Brake, Kate MacDonald, Jane Jordan, Debra Gettelman, Katie Halsey, Jenny Hartley, Rosalind Crone, Sharon Murphy, Beth Palmer, Tim Dolin.
