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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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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.