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Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience
Paul Raphael Rooney (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Rooney, Paul Raphael; Gasperini, Anna. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 254 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
This book explores Victorian readers' consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences' engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, ... Read more
This book explores Victorian readers' consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences' engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
New Directions in Book History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137587602
SKU
V9781137587602
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99-15
About Paul Raphael Rooney (Ed.)
Paul Raphael Rooney is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include the history of Victorian reading, series publishing, nineteenth-century periodicals, and popular literature. He has previously published in Victorian Periodicals Review, Women's Writing, and Publishing History. Anna Gasperini is a final year PhD candidate at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where ... Read more
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