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Crusoe's Books : Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Bill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers--Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Travelers.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Books and reading.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Other Title:
- Crusoe's Books
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022.
- Summary:
- Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route to Australia, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Hermeneutic Castaways
- In the Empire of Print
- Conversing with Distant Friends
- Reading in the Contact Zone
- Ineluctable Specificity
- Reading Constituencies
- 1: Our Floating Commonwealth
- Order, Industry, and Cleanliness
- A Most Horrible Condition
- The Chosen Few
- Our Floating Commonwealth
- 2: The Indiscipline of Reading
- An Engine for Reclamation
- A Distaste for Reading
- The Last of England
- Reading at the Gates of Hell
- Poachers in Custody
- Conspicuous Literacy
- 3: A Kingdom of the Mind
- A Community of Interest
- A Peculiar People
- A Microcosm of Scottish Society
- Relics of Migration
- A Community Imagined
- From Glasgow to Golf Hill
- Scotland Was My Nation
- 4: Bound for Antarctica
- Books at Sea
- Mutable Mobiles
- The Book of Nature
- Five Readers Reading
- The Uses of Literacy
- Reading between Decks
- Open and Closed Textual Economies
- Homeward Bound
- 5: The War for Civilization
- The Condition of England
- A Dearth of Things to Read
- The Kind of Book That Is Wanted
- Drive out Your Enemies
- Over the Top
- Offensive Enough? The Wipers Times and Blighty
- The Condition of a Man's Brain
- Poachers in No Man's Land
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Anonymous
- Manuscript Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-264750-4
- 0-19-193834-3
- OCLC:
- 1298389500
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