Six Great Victorian Novelists
Title | Six Great Victorian Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Francis E. Baily |
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Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1969 |
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Six Great Victorian Novelists
Title | Six Great Victorian Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Evans Baily |
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Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Six great Victorian novelists
Title | Six great Victorian novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Evans Baily |
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Total Pages | 197 |
Release | 1969 |
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Six great Victorian novelists, by F. E. Baily
Title | Six great Victorian novelists, by F. E. Baily PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Evans Baily |
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Total Pages | 0 |
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Genre | English fiction |
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Victorian Publishing
Title | Victorian Publishing PDF eBook |
Author | Alexis Weedon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351875868 |
Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain. Chapters explore the significance of the export trade to the colonies and the rising importance of towns outside London as centres of publishing; the influence of technological change in increasing the variety and quantity of books; and how the business practice of literary publishing developed to expand the market for British and American authors. The book takes examples from the purchase and sale of popular fiction by Ouida, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ewing, and canonical authors such as George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Mark Twain. Consideration of the unique demands of the educational market complements the focus on fiction, as readers, arithmetic books, music, geography, science textbooks, and Greek and Latin classics became a staple for an increasing number of publishing houses wishing to spread the risk of novel publication.
Victorians Undone
Title | Victorians Undone PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Hughes |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 441 |
Release | 2018-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 142142570X |
In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Title | How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Leah Price |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2012-04-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400842182 |
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 hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.