Crusoe's books : readers in the empire of print, 1800-1918 / Bill Bell.

9780191938344 (ebook) :

First edition.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

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This is a work about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.

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November 22, 2021

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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