The History of Reading, Volume 2: Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950

by W.R. Owens

Book Overview

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword; S.Eliot Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; K.Halsey & W.R. Owens PART I: READING COMMUNITIES 'The Talent Hid in a Napkin': Castle Libraries in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; M.Towsey Caroline and Paul: Biblical Commentaries as Evidence of Reading in Victorian Britain; M.Ledger-Lomas Reading the 'religion of socialism': Olive Schreiner, the Labour Church and the Construction of Left-wing Reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349320110
• ISBN13: 9781349320110
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"