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 Palmer, Beth, 1982-
Other author Buckland, Adelene.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoFarnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
Descriptionxii, 188 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010044272
ISBN9781409400271 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780754698777 (ebook)

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