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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain /

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who h...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Price, Leah
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Reader's block
  • Anthony Trollope and the repellent book
  • David Copperfield and the absorbent book
  • It-narrative and the book as agent
  • The book as burden : junk mail and religious tracts
  • The book as go-between : domestic servants and forced reading
  • The book as waste : Henry Mayhew and the fall of paper recycling.