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Author:

Price, Leah.

Title:

How to do things with books in Victorian Britain / Leah Price.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Books--Great Britain--History--History--19th century.
Books--History--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-325) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

069111417X (acid-free paper)
9780691114170 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)755213261

LCCN:

2011037436

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)