Research Catalog

Title

Reading, publishing and the formation of literary taste in England, 1880-1914 / Mary Hammond.

Author

Hammond, Mary, 1960-

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

Details

Description

xii, 209 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Nineteenth century

Uniform Title

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Subject

• Books and reading > England > History > 19th century
• Books and reading > England > History > 20th century
• Publishers and publishing > England > History > 19th century
• Publishers and publishing > England > History > 20th century
• Popular culture > England
• Authors and readers > England
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• England > Intellectual life > 19th century
• England > Intellectual life > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.

Contents

Introduction : modernity and the reading public -- 1. 'The great fiction bore' : free libraries and their users -- Gissing and the common reader -- The public library movement -- Fiction and the public space -- Libraries, reading and the performance of gender and class -- Moral guardianship and the librarian -- 2. Sensation and sensibility : W. H. Smith and the railway bookstall -- An engine for social change -- Train travel and the reader's psyche -- Circulation and censorship : policing the literature of the rail -- 'Something hot and strong' : bookstalls, protection and escapism -- 3. 'People read so much now and reflect so little' : Oxford University Press and the classics series -- Creating a classic

Call Number

JFE 15-1855

ISBN

• 0754656683 (alk. paper)
• 9780754656685 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005037690

OCLC

62782165

Author

Hammond, Mary, 1960-

Title

Reading, publishing and the formation of literary taste in England, 1880-1914 / Mary Hammond.

Imprint

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

Series

Nineteenth century

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Other Form:

Online version: Hammond, Mary, 1960- Reading, publishing and the formation of literary taste in England, 1880-1914. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006 (OCoLC)608117842

Online version: Hammond, Mary, 1960- Reading, publishing and the formation of literary taste in England, 1880-1914. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006 (OCoLC)632297364

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1855