Books for Idle Hours : Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading /

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"The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harrington-Lueker, Donna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tourism in literature.
Tourism.
Summer in literature.
Publishers and publishing.
Leisure.
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Éte dans la litterature.
Loisir > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Tourism > United States > History > 19th century.
Leisure > United States > History > 19th century.
Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nineteenth-century travel, tourism, and summer leisure
  • 'As welcome and grateful as the girls in muslin': nineteenth-century periodicals and the marketing of summer reading
  • Society and saturnalia: the cultural work of the American summer novel
  • 'Hurrying. . . forward for the summer trade': William Dean Howells's dialogue with the popular summer novel
  • 'This is why I do not board': the role of place and space in Victorian summer reading
  • Chautauqua assemblies, summer schools, and Catholic Reading circles: the case for serious summer reading
  • Changing times, persistent practices.

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