Reading and the Victorians (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Matthew Bradley and Juliet John. Part I The Public Aspects of Private Reading: Reading by artificial light in the Victorian age, Simon Eliot; New innovations in audience control: the select library and sensation, Stephen Colclough; Reading Langham Place periodicals at number 19, Beth Palmer. Part II The Reading Relationship: Deep reading in the manuscripts: Dickens and the manuscript of David Copperfield, Philip Davis; ’Telling all’: reading women’s diaries in the 1890s, Catherine Delafield; Reading across the lines and off the page: Dickens’s model of multiple literacies in Our Mutual Friend, Sheila Cordner. Part III Reading the Victorians Today: Victorian readers and their library records today, K. E. Attar; Query: Victorian reading, Rosalind Crone; Gladstone’s unfinished synchrony: reading afterlives and the Gladstone database, Matthew Bradley; The sharing of stories, in company with Mr Dickens, Clare Ellis. Afterword, Jenny Hartley; Works cited; Index.