Reading and the Victorians / edited by Matthew Bradley and Juliet John.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, Matthew, 1977- editor.

John, Juliet, 1967- editor.

Series:

Nineteenth century series.

The nineteenth century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and readers.

Great Britain.

History.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature publishing.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 180 pages ; 24cm.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction / Matthew Bradley and Juliet John

The public aspects of private reading. Reading by artificial light in the Victorian age / Simon Eliot

New innovations in audience control? Mudie's select library and the sensational novel / Stephen Colclough

Reading Langham Place periodicals at number 19 / Beth Palmer

The reading relationship. Deep reading in the manuscripts: Dickens and the manuscript of David Copperfield / Philip Davis

"Telling all": reading women's diaries in the 1890s / Catherine Delafield

Victorian reading across the lines and off the page: Dickens's model of multiple literacies in Our mutual friend / Sheila Cordner

Reading the Victorians today. Victorian readers and their library records today / K. E. Attar

Query: Victorian reading / Rosalind Crone

Gladstone's unfinished synchrony: reading afterlives and the Gladstone database / Matthew Bradley

The sharing of stories, in company with Mr Dickens / Clare Ellis

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409440802

140944080X

9781409440819

1409440818

OCLC:

891427590