TY - SER
AU - Matthew Bradley
AU - Juliet John
CY - Farnham, England
LA - English
N1 -
The chapter by Attar looks at what can be gleaned about Victorian reading habits from records in modern online library catalogs.
Contents:
- Introduction / Matthew Bradley and Juliet John
- The public aspects of private reading. Reading by artificial light in the Victorian age / Simon Eliot
- New innovations in audience control? Mudie's select library and the sensational novel / Stephen Colclough
- Reading Langham Place periodicals at number 19 / Beth Palmer
- The reading relationship. Deep reading in the manuscripts: Dickens and the manuscript of David Copperfield / Philip Davis
- "Telling all": reading women's diaries in the 1890s / Catherine Delafield
- Victorian reading across the lines and off the page: Dickens's model of multiple literacies in Our mutual friend / Sheila Cordner
- Reading the Victorians today. Victorian readers and their library records today / K.E. Attar
- Query: Victorian reading / Rosalind Crone
- Gladstone's unfinished synchrony: reading afterlives and the Gladstone database / Matthew Bradley
- The sharing of stories, in company with Mr Dickens / Clare Ellis
- Afterword
PB - Ashgate
PP - Farnham, England
PY - 2015
SN - 9781409440802
EP - 180 pp.
TI - Reading and the Victorians
ER -