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1 Online-Ressource (x, 268 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781788747134
Serie:
Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century 11
Inhalt:
The long nineteenth century saw a prolific increase in the number of books being produced and read. This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to readership studies, exploring not only textual sources but also visual culture, revealing what the Victorians thought about reading and its relation to family, gender, leisure pursuits and more.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction (Beth Palmer, Amelia Yeates) -- Part I Framing the Reader -- 1 Framing Reading in Mary Watts's Diaries and Designs (Beth Palmer) -- 2 Reading Like a Victorian: How the Book Review Illuminates Viewing as an Essential Part of Reading (Catherine J. Golden) -- 3 Picturing the Poor: Reader Spectatorship, Sympathy and Slumming in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (Garth Wenman-James) -- Part II Visual Representations of Readers -- 4 Painting the 'Woman as Reader': From Romney to Rossetti (Colin Cruise) -- 5 'No Happy Wearing of Beloved Leaves': Women and Not Reading in Nineteenth-Century Art* (Amelia Yeates) -- 6 In Search of 'Some Bond of Union': Picturing the Domestic Reading Circle in Victorian Photographs (Charlotte Boman) -- Part III The Reader in the Text -- 7 Interrogating the Male Reader in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (Ashton Foley-Schramm) -- 8 Picturing the Reader in Jane Austen's Novels (Katie Halsey) -- Afterword (Mary Hammond) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Series index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781788747127
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Picturing the reader Oxford : Peter Lang, 2022 ISBN 9781788747127
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
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Lesen
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Leser
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Malerei
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Illustration
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Geschichte 1789-1914
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Mehr zum Autor:
Palmer, Beth 1982-
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