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Reading and the Victorians (Paperback)
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Reading and the Victorians (Paperback)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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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.
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