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Title:

Reading and the Victorians / edited by Matthew Bradley and Juliet John.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

180 pages, 25 cm.

Subject:

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Other Authors:

Bradley, Matthew, 1977- editor.
John, Juliet, 1967- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Matthew Bradley and Juliet John -- The public aspects of private reading. Reading by artificial light in the Victorian age / Simon Eliot -- New innovations in audience control: the select library and sensation / Stephen Colclough -- Reading Langham Place periodicals at number 19 / Beth Palmer -- The reading relationship. Deep reading in the manuscripts: Dickens and the manuscript of David Copperfield / Philip Davis -- "Telling all": reading women's diaries in the 1890s / Catherine Delafield -- Reading across the lines and off the page: Dickens's model of multiple literacies in Our mutual friend / Sheila Cordner -- Reading the Victorians today. Victorian readers and their library records today / K. E. Attar -- Query: Victorian reading / Rosalind Crone -- Gladstone's unfinished synchrony: reading afterlives and the Gladstone database / Matthew Bradley -- The sharing of stories, in company with Mr Charles Dickens / Clare Ellis -- Afterword.

Series:

The nineteenth century series

ISBN:

1409440818 (ebook)
9781409440819 (ebook)
140944080X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409440802 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)891427590

LCCN:

2014031164

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)