Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

by Bill Bell

This is a book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192894692
• ISBN13: 9780192894694
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"