Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

by Garrett Stewart and Professor Garrett Stewart

"Ready now, reader? Easy then. That should put you in the right historical frame of mind, put you in mind of the right historical frame. For it did seem easier then, certainly more relaxed. Like the addressed and otherwise rendered nineteenth-century reader who is my subject of study, you are invited to take it slow while we back our way into the last century. We do so by moving from an unexpected modernist send-up of Victorian direct address, an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801852838
• ISBN13: 9780801852831
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"