Pub Date: July 12, 2007
Dewey: 028.909033
LCCN: 2007018288
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.74" H x 8.51" L x 6.34" W ( 0.92 lbs) 239 pages
BISAC Categories:
Literary Criticism | Semiotics and Theory | History | Social History | Europe | Great Britain General | Social Science | General | Modern | 19th Century
Description: This volume explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. From wealthy readers of 'amatory fiction', through to men and women reading surreptitiously at the Victorian railway bookstall, it argues that a variety of new reading communities emerged during this period.