How to do things with books in Victorian Britain /

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 h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Price, Leah (Author)
Corporate Author:	De Gruyter
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012 Princeton, N.J. : ©2012 Princeton, NJ : [2012] Princeton, NJ : [2012]
Edition:	Course Book
Subjects:	1800-1899 19th century Book industries and trade > Great Britain > History > 19th century Books and reading in literature Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century Books in literature Books > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century Books > Great Britain > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism Book industries and trade Books and reading Books Books > Psychological aspects Buch Englisch English fiction History LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Leser Literatur Psychological aspects Social aspects Great Britain Großbritannien Anthony Trollope David Copperfield Enlightenment Evangelical publishers George Gissing Henry Mayhew Victorians antisocial genre authors bildungsroman book buying book handling book preservation book selling book transactions books circulation coffee-table book cultural history electronic media household manual identity junk mail life writing literary criticism literary theory metonymy mid-Victorian novels newspaper niche marketing novel novels paper recycling paper taxes plastics printed matter reader response readerly rule readers reading religious tracts scholars secular fiction secular novelists secular press self-help selfhood shared reading social entanglements text tract distribution unread book urban sociology verbal content wood-pulp paper writing Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc Dictionaries

Table of 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
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reader's Block
Part I. Selfish Fictions
Chapter 2: Anthony Trollope and the Repellent Book
Chapter 3: David Copperfield and the Absorbent Book
Chapter 4: It-Narrative and the Book as Agent
Part II. Bookish Transactions
Chapter 5: The Book as Burden: Junk Mail and Religious Tracts
Chapter 6: The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Servants and Forced Reading
Chapter 7: The Book as Waste: Henry Mayhew and the Fall of Paper Recycling
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Front matter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reader's Block
Part I. Selfish Fictions
Chapter 2: Anthony Trollope and the Repellent Book
Chapter 3: David Copperfield and the Absorbent Book
Chapter 4: It-Narrative and the Book as Agent
Part II. Bookish Transactions
Chapter 5: The Book as Burden: Junk Mail and Religious Tracts
Chapter 6: The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Servants and Forced Reading
Chapter 7: The Book as Waste: Henry Mayhew and the Fall of Paper Recycling
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

How to do things with books in Victorian Britain /

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