British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901

AvSharon Murphy

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers’ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and, more broadly, to working-class readers – and leisure – at this period. Murphy’s study also considers the contents of the libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 12 mm
Vikt:281 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
Antal sidor:200
Upplaga:18001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349715596

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Sharon Murphy is Lecturer in the School of English at Dublin City University, Ireland, where she is also Director of the Master’s in Children’s Literature programme. She is a graduate of University College Dublin, and of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is the author of Maria Edgeworth and Romance (2004), and has also contributed to essay collections and journals.

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“There is much of interest in this book–it blends army life in India with changing attitudes at ‘Home’, in Victorian Britain, and shows how the soldier’s life undoubtedly got better during the 19th century. That the civilising influence of libraries had much to do with this may be questionable, but Murphy’s book provides a well-researched and readable argument in its favour.” (Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society JRAS, May, 2018)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- 1. The East India Company’s Libraries.- 2. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in India.- 3. The Regular Army’s Libraries.- 4. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in the Regular Army.- Conclusion.-