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A Return to the Common Reader - Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A Return to the Common Reader - Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common
Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at
the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped
produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by
which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks
what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the
wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and
eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give
new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who
picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in
prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us
of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts,
shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material
across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A
Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which
dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary
Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary
culture forever.
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