Price How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4218-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Leah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Reader’s Block 19
Part I: Selfish Fictions
Chapter Two: Anthony Trollope and the Repellent Book 45
Chapter Three: David Copperfield and the Absorbent Book 72
Chapter Four: It-Narrative and the Book as Agent 107
Part II: Bookish Transactions
Chapter Five: The Book as Burden: Junk Mail and Religious Tracts 139
Chapter Six: The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Servants and Forced Reading 175
Chapter Seven: The Book as Waste: Henry Mayhew and the Fall of Paper Recycling 219
Conclusion 258
Notes 263
Works Cited 293
Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Leah Price is professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.