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Writers, readers, and occasions : selected essays on Victorian literature and life
- Title
- Writers, readers, and occasions : selected essays on Victorian literature and life / Richard D. Altick.
- Author
- Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915-2008.
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR463 .A48 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Writers, readers & occasions.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Books and reading
- English literature
- Manners and customs
- Englisch
- Gesellschaft
- Leser
- Literatur
- Schriftsteller
- Verlag
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Sozialgeschichte 1837-1901
- Geschichte (1832-1902)
- Geschichte (1837-1901)
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.
- Contents
- [1.] Writers: "A grammarian's funeral": Browning's praise of folly? -- The symbolism of Browning's "Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha" -- Lovers' finiteness: Browning's "Two in the Campagna" -- "Andrea del Sarto": the kingdom of hell is within -- Carlyle's Past and present: topicality as technique -- Education, print, and paper in Our mutual friend -- Bleak House: the reach of chapter one -- The sociology of authorship: the social origins, education, and occupations of 1,100 British writers, 1800-1935 -- [2.] Readers: Varieties of readers' response: the case of Dombey and Son -- English publishing and the mass audience in 1852 -- The literature of an imminent democracy, 1859 -- From Aldine to Everyman: cheap reprint series of the English classics, 1830-1906 -- Cope's tobacco plant: an episode in Victorian journalism -- The reading public in England and America in 1900 -- [3.] Occasions: Four Victorian poets and an exploding island -- The volcano and a coral reef -- Adventures of an annotator -- "Our gallant colonel" in Punch and Parliament -- An uncommon curiosity: in search of the shows of London -- Victorians on the move; or, "Tis forty years since.
- ISBN
- 0814204597
- 9780814204597
- LCCN
- 88005112
- OCLC
- ocm17547309
- 17547309
- SCSB-14503522
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library