| Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918 Contributor(s): Bell, Bill (Author) |
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ISBN: 0192894692 ISBN-13: 9780192894694 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.8" (1.30 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century. |