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Crusoe's Books
Bill Bell
其他書名
Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2021-10-21
主題
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
Literary Criticism / General
History / Modern / General
ISBN
0192647504
9780192647504
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FdFGEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.