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Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

Bill (Professor of Bibliography Bell

Crusoe's Books

Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

Crusoe's Books

 

Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route to Australia, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War.


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Beschrijving Crusoe's Books

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.


ISBN
9780192894694
Pagina's
292
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Rubriek
Literaire non-fictie
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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