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author-reader relationship
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Barbara Bodichon
Bashkirtseff's Journal
Bashkirtseff’s Journal
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copperfield
Critical Afterlife
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Dickens's Prose
Dickens’s Prose
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feminist periodicals analysis
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Henry Ponsonby
history of reading practices
King George III
Lady Audley
Lady Audley's Secret
Lady Audley’s Secret
langham
Langham Place
Langham Place Group
library
Library Circular
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Macaulay's Review
Macaulay’s Review
Marie Bashkirtseff
Mrs Henry Wood
Mudie's Select Library
mudies
Mudie’s Select Library
nineteenth-century literacy
place
Reading Experience Database
Reading Great Expectations
Reading Room
select
Senate House Library
Sir Henry Ponsonby
Studies Subsidiary
Vice Versa
Victoria Magazine
Victorian Afterlives
Victorian era reading culture research
Victorian manuscript studies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138379787
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. With book production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.
Matthew Bradley is Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
