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Bill Bell - Crusoe's Books, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

Av Bill Bell

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-21
  • Mått: 260 x 240 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 592 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 292
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780192894694
  • Utmärkelser: Winner, Rosemary Mitchell Prize 2022, British Association of Victorian Studies Winner, Kay Daniels Award, Australian Historical Association
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Bill Bell is Professor of Bibliography at Cardiff University and Senior Research Fellow at The University of Goettingen. He has held visiting posts at the Universities of Canberra, Munich, Ottawa, and St John's College Oxford. He was the founder of the Edinburgh Centre for the History of the Book and is General Editor of The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (4 volumes). His publications also include the co-authored Exploration, Writing and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859 (Chicago, 2015) and he served as editor of the OUP quarterly journal, The Library, the world's premier scholarly journal in bibliography.

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