Victorian Print Media: A Reader

by Andrew King and John Plunkett

Book Overview

Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. It has long been acknowledged that the growth of the popular publishing industry played an instrumental role in the success of most major Victorian novelists. Traditional critical positions have, nevertheless, recently expanded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199270376
• ISBN13: 9780199270378
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"