Description: Further DetailsTitle: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian BritainCondition: NewISBN-10: 069111417XEAN: 9780691114170ISBN: 9780691114170Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/29/2012Description: 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 Brontes, 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 624gAuthor: Leah PriceGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Title: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
ISBN-10: 069111417X
EAN: 9780691114170
ISBN: 9780691114170
Release Date: 04/29/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Modern / 19th Century, Earth Sciences / General, Books & Reading, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Leah Price
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Science, History
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
