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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Books and reading --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- English fiction --- Books and reading in literature. --- Books in literature. --- Book trade --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Books and reading in literature --- Books in literature --- History and criticism --- Anthony Trollope. --- David Copperfield. --- Enlightenment. --- Evangelical publishers. --- George Gissing. --- Henry Mayhew. --- Victorians. --- antisocial genre. --- authors. --- bildungsroman. --- book buying. --- book handling. --- book preservation. --- book selling. --- book transactions. --- books. --- circulation. --- coffee-table book. --- cultural history. --- electronic media. --- household manual. --- identity. --- junk mail. --- life writing. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- metonymy. --- mid-Victorian novels. --- newspaper. --- niche marketing. --- novel. --- novels. --- paper recycling. --- paper taxes. --- plastics. --- printed matter. --- reader response. --- readerly rule. --- readers. --- reading. --- religious tracts. --- scholars. --- secular fiction. --- secular novelists. --- secular press. --- self-help. --- selfhood. --- shared reading. --- social entanglements. --- text. --- tract distribution. --- unread book. --- urban sociology. --- verbal content. --- wood-pulp paper. --- writing. --- Book history --- Psychological study of literature --- anno 1800-1899

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In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.

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What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further Reading brings together thirty essays drawing on approaches as different as formalism, historicism, neuroscience, disability, and computation. Contributors take up the following questions: What do we mean when we talk about 'reading' today? How are reading techniques evolving in the digital era? What is the future of reading? This book foregrounds reading as a topic worthy of investigation in its own right rather than as a sub-section of histories of the book, sociologies of literacy, or theories of literature. As our knowledge of reading changes in step with the media and the scholarly tools used to apprehend it, a more precise understanding of this topic is crucial to the discipline's future. This collection introduces new ways of conceptualizing the term's forms, boundaries, and uses. Its contributors bring varied vocabularies to bear on the contested nature and continued importance of reading, within the academy and beyond.

Books and reading. --- Livres et lecture --- Books and reading --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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Secretaries in literature --- Writing in literature --- Women in literature