TY - SER
AU - Donna Harrington-Leuker
CY - Amherst, MA
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Nineteenth-century travel, tourism, and summer leisure </li><li>'As welcome and grateful as the girls in muslin': nineteenth-century periodicals and the marketing of summer reading </li><li>Society and saturnalia: the cultural work of the American summer novel </li><li>'Hurrying. . . forward for the summer trade': William Dean Howells's dialogue with the popular summer novel </li><li>'This is why I do not board': the role of place and space in Victorian summer reading </li><li>Chautauqua assemblies, summer schools, and Catholic Reading circles: the case for serious summer reading </li><li>Changing times, persistent practices</li></ul>
PB - University of Massachusetts Press
PP - Amherst, MA
PY - 2019
SN - 9781625343826
EP - 229 pp.
TI - Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
ER -