Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Crusoe's Books Readers In The Empire Of Print 1800 - 1918
Author(s): Bell Bill (Professor Of Bibliography Professor Of Bibliography Cardiff University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192894694
Pages: 292 Pages, 46 Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/21/2022
Category: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900