Review essay of recent books.
Reviewed Works: The Early History of the London Library by William Baker; Institutionalizing English Literature: The Culture and Politics of Literary Study, 1750-1900 by Franklin E. Court; The T. & T. Clark Story: A Victorian Publisher and the New Theology by John A. H. Dempster; A Schooling in "English": Critical Episodes in the Struggle to Shape Literary and Cultural Studies by John Dixon; Author and Printer in Victorian England by Allan C. Dooley; Books behind Bars: The Role of Books, Reading, and Libraries in British Prison Reform, 1701-1911 by Janet Fyfe; The Library of the British Museum: Retrospective Essays on the Department of Printed Books by P. R. Harris; Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society by Leslie Howsam; The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England: The Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy by David F. Mitch; A Position to Command Respect: Women and the Eleventh "Britannica" by Gillian Thomas
PY - 1994 SP - 461 EP - 472 T2 - Victorian Studies TI - How to do Things with Book History VL - 37 ER -