Crusoe''s Books : Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918
by
Bill Bell
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0192894692
ISBN-13
9780192894694
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 21st, 2021
Print length
292 Pages
Weight
588 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 24.10 x 2.50 cms
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Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route to Australia, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War.
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.
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