Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience

Book Overview

This book explores Victorian readers' consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137587601
• ISBN13: 9781137587602
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"