| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The advantage of fiction : the novel and the : "success" of the Victorian periodical / Laurel Brake -- Dorothy's literature class : late-victorian women autodidacts and penny fiction weeklies / Kate MacDonald -- Ouida : how conceptions of the popular reader contributed to the making of a popular novelist / Jane Jordan -- Those who idle over novels : Victorian critics and post-romantic readers / Debra Gettelman -- "Gossip" and "twaddle" : nineteenth-century common readers make sense of Jane Austen / Katie Halsey -- Reading in gaol / Jenny Hartley -- Attempts to (re)shape common reading habits : Bible reading on the nineteenth-century convict ship / Rosalind Crone -- Quite incapable of appreciating books written for educated readers : the mid-nineteenth-century British soldier / Sharon Murphy -- A journey round the bookshelves : reading in the Royal Colonial Institute / Beth Palmer -- Fiction and the Australian reading public, 1888-1914 / Tim Dolin |
| Summary |
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Inspired by Altick's research, but digging deep into the neglected records of prison libraries, army barracks or convict ships the authors of A Return to the Common Reader dramatically reconfigure our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Authors and readers
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Books and reading
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English fiction
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Buckland, Adelene
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Palmer, Beth, 1982-
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| LC no. |
2010044272 |
| ISBN |
9780754698777 |
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0754698777 |
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1351961918 |
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9781351961912 |
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1315263726 |
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9781315263724 |
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1283047497 |
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9781283047494 |
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9786613047496 |
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661304749X |
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