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Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series (Hardcover)
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Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace
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The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading.
This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in
this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the
expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian
readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed
by exploring the leading determinants of consumers' purchasing
choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended
for reading in this zone. This exploration concentrates on the
impact of forces like the input of the staff running the bookstalls
and the commercial environment in which consumers made their
purchases. At the center of this study is a leading (and still
relatively under-examined) genre of Victorian print culture
circulating in this reading space the series. Rooney examines three
leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy
railway passengers' need for literary reading matter. Many of the
period's principal authors and literary genres featured in their
lists. Each venture is representative of one of the three main
pricing tiers of series publishing. Employing an eclectic
methodological framework combining cultural studies and book
history approaches with concepts from the new humanities, the
reading experiences furnished by the light fiction of these series
are reconstructed. This study reflects the recent growth in
scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of
Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in
nineteenth-century studies.
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