A return to the common reader print culture and the novel, 1850-1900

A return to the common reader : print culture and the novel, 1850-1900 / edited by Beth Palmer, University of Surrey, UK, and Adelene Buckland, University of East Anglia, UK.

Other author/creator	Palmer, Beth, 1982-
Other author/creator	Buckland, Adelene.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
Description	xii, 188 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Books and reading--Great Britain --History --19th century. English fiction--19th century --History and criticism. Authors and readers--Great Britain --History --19th century.

Contents	The advantage of fiction : the novel and the : "success" of the Victorian periodical / Laurel Brake -- Dorothy's literature class : late-victorian women autodidacts and penny fiction weeklies / Kate MacDonald -- Ouida : how conceptions of the popular reader contributed to the making of a popular novelist / Jane Jordan -- Those who idle over novels : Victorian critics and post-romantic readers / Debra Gettelman -- "Gossip" and "twaddle" : nineteenth-century common readers make sense of Jane Austen / Katie Halsey -- Reading in gaol / Jenny Hartley -- Attempts to (re)shape common reading habits : Bible reading on the nineteenth-century convict ship / Rosalind Crone -- Quite incapable of appreciating books written for educated readers : the mid-nineteenth-century British soldier / Sharon Murphy -- A journey round the bookshelves : reading in the Royal Colonial Institute / Beth Palmer -- Fiction and the Australian reading public, 1888-1914 / Tim Dolin.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2010044272
ISBN	9781409400271 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780754698777 (ebook)

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