A Return to the Common Reader
Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers i…
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Weitere Autoren: Palmer, Beth (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-96190-5
- EAN: 9781351961905
- Produktnummer: 22638161
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 204 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'628 KB
Über den Autor
Beth Palmer is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. Adelene Buckland is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK.
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