TY  - BOOK
AU  - Price,Leah
TI  - How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
SN  - 9780691114170
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Books and reading in literature
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Books in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Books
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - English fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthony Trollope
KW  - David Copperfield
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Evangelical publishers
KW  - George Gissing
KW  - Henry Mayhew
KW  - Victorians
KW  - antisocial genre
KW  - authors
KW  - bildungsroman
KW  - book buying
KW  - book handling
KW  - book preservation
KW  - book selling
KW  - book transactions
KW  - books
KW  - circulation
KW  - coffee-table book
KW  - cultural history
KW  - electronic media
KW  - household manual
KW  - identity
KW  - junk mail
KW  - life writing
KW  - literary criticism
KW  - literary theory
KW  - metonymy
KW  - mid-Victorian novels
KW  - newspaper
KW  - niche marketing
KW  - novel
KW  - novels
KW  - paper recycling
KW  - paper taxes
KW  - plastics
KW  - printed matter
KW  - reader response
KW  - readerly rule
KW  - readers
KW  - reading
KW  - religious tracts
KW  - scholars
KW  - secular fiction
KW  - secular novelists
KW  - secular press
KW  - self-help
KW  - selfhood
KW  - shared reading
KW  - social entanglements
KW  - text
KW  - tract distribution
KW  - unread book
KW  - urban sociology
KW  - verbal content
KW  - wood-pulp paper
KW  - writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1: Reader's Block --; Part I. Selfish Fictions --; Chapter 2: Anthony Trollope and the Repellent Book --; Chapter 3: David Copperfield and the Absorbent Book --; Chapter 4: It-Narrative and the Book as Agent --; Part II. Bookish Transactions --; Chapter 5: The Book as Burden: Junk Mail and Religious Tracts --; Chapter 6: The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Servants and Forced Reading --; Chapter 7: The Book as Waste: Henry Mayhew and the Fall of Paper Recycling --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond
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