Reading and the Victorians / Edited by Matthew Bradley, University of Liverpool, UK and Juliet John, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Other Authors: Bradley, Matthew, 1977- (Editor)
John, Juliet, 1967- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
Series:Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Subjects:
Authors and readers > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature publishing > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Authors and readers.
Books and reading.
English literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature publishing.
Great Britain.
Lesen.
Englisch.
Literatur.
Autor.
Leser.
Großbritannien.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Matthew Bradley and Juliet John
  • The public aspects of private reading. Reading by artificial light in the Victorian age / Simon Eliot
  • New innovations in audience control? Mudie's select library and the sensational novel / Stephen Colclough
  • Reading Langham Place periodicals at number 19 / Beth Palmer
  • The reading relationship. Deep reading in the manuscripts: Dickens and the manuscript of David Copperfield / Philip Davis
  • "Telling all": reading women's diaries in the 1890s / Catherine Delafield
  • Victorian reading across the lines and off the page: Dickens's model of multiple literacies in Our mutual friend / Sheila Cordner
  • Reading the Victorians today. Victorian readers and their library records today / K. E. Attar
  • Query: Victorian reading / Rosalind Crone
  • Gladstone's unfinished synchrony: reading afterlives and the Gladstone database / Matthew Bradley
  • The sharing of stories, in company with Mr Dickens / Clare Ellis
  • Afterword.