Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

by Bill Bell

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0192894692

ISBN13:9780192894694

Release Date:January 2022

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:292 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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