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Umfang: 350 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-691-11417-0 , 978-0-691-15954-6

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Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781400842186

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Allgemeines , Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Buch ; Lesekultur

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Mehr zum Autor: Price, Leah, 1970-

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Umfang: 1 online resource (361 p.)

Ausgabe: Course Book

ISBN: 9786613589415 , 9781280494185 , 1280494182 , 9781400842186 , 1400842182

Inhalt: 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, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Chapter 1: Reader's Block -- , Part I. Selfish Fictions -- , Chapter 2: Anthony Trollope and the Repellent Book -- , Chapter 3: David Copperfield and the Absorbent Book -- , Chapter 4: It-Narrative and the Book as Agent -- , Part II. Bookish Transactions -- , Chapter 5: The Book as Burden: Junk Mail and Religious Tracts -- , Chapter 6: The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Servants and Forced Reading -- , Chapter 7: The Book as Waste: Henry Mayhew and the Fall of Paper Recycling -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780691159546

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0691159548

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780691114170

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 069111417X

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781400842186

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (350 pages) , illustrations

Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.

ISBN: 069111417X , 1280494182 , 1400842182 , 9780691114170 , 9781280494185 , 9781400842186

Inhalt: 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, Leah P

Inhalt: 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

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-325) and index

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Price, Leah How to do things with books in Victorian Britain Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2012

Sprache: Englisch

URL: Volltext

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

Mehr zum Autor: Price, Leah 1970-