عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
Z1003.5.G7 P75 2012
Z1003
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5
.
G7
P75
2012
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
069111417X
(Number (ISBN
0691159548
(Number (ISBN
9780691114170
(Number (ISBN
9780691159546
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
How to do things with books in Victorian Britain /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Leah Price.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
350 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-325) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Reader's block -- Anthony Trollope and the repellent book -- David Copperfield and the absorbent book -- It-narrative and the book as agent -- The book as burden : junk mail and religious tracts -- The book as go-between : domestic servants and forced reading -- The book as waste : Henry Mayhew and the fall of paper recycling.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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 Brontës, 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." -- Publisher's description.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Book industries and trade-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Books and reading-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Books and reading in literature.
Books-- Great Britain-- Psychological aspects-- History-- 19th century.
Books in literature.
Books-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
028/
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9094109034
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
Z1003
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5
.
G7
Book number
P75
2012
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Price, Leah.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20160830124222.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
