How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain / / Leah Price.
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 h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 18 halftones. 2 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Reader's Block
- Part I. Selfish Fictions
- Chapter 2: Anthony Trollope and the Repellent Book
- Chapter 3: David Copperfield and the Absorbent Book
- Chapter 4: It-Narrative and the Book as Agent
- Part II. Bookish Transactions
- Chapter 5: The Book as Burden: Junk Mail and Religious Tracts
- Chapter 6: The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Servants and Forced Reading
- Chapter 7: The Book as Waste: Henry Mayhew and the Fall of Paper Recycling
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index