Description:
The long nineteenth century saw a prolific increase in the number of books being produced and read. This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to readership studies, exploring not only textual sources but also visual culture, revealing what the Victorians thought about reading and its relation to family, gender, leisure pursuits and more.
Review Quotes:
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to a range of visual and textual material, this engaging and illuminating collection compels twenty-first-century readers to take a fresh look at the multiple ways in which readers and reading were represented in the long nineteenth century. (Professor Julia Thomas, Cardiff University)