| Description |
1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-325) 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Books and reading. |
|
Great Britain. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Books -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Books. |
|
Psychological aspects. |
|
Books -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Social aspects. |
|
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Book industries and trade. |
|
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
English fiction. |
|
Books and reading in literature.
|
|
Books and reading in literature. |
|
Books in literature.
|
|
Books in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Electronic books.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Price, Leah. How to do things with books in Victorian Britain. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2012 9780691114170 (DLC) 2011037436 (OCoLC)755213261 |
| ISBN |
9781400842186 (electronic book) |
|
1400842182 (electronic book) |
|
9780691114170 |
|
069111417X |
|
1280494182 |
|
9781280494185 |
|
