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The social life of books : reading together in the eighteenth-century home /
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social lif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Yale University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Home improvements
- How to read
- Reading and sociability
- Using books
- Access to reading
- Verse at home
- Drama and recital
- Fictional worlds
- Piety and knowledge
- Afterword.