Crone, Rosalind
(2011). Attempts to (re)shape common reading habits: Bible reading on the nineteenth-century convict ship.
In: Palmer, Beth and Buckland, Adelene eds.
A Return to the Common Reader: Pring Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900.
Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp. 103–120.
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Abstract
About the book:
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2011 The Author |
| ISBN: |
1-4094-0027-1, 978-1-4094-0027-1 |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > History |
| Item ID: |
17523 |
| Depositing User: |
Rosalind Crone
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| Date Deposited: |
20 Jul 2010 14:43 |
| Last Modified: |
24 Oct 2012 10:44 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/17523 |
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