Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series

by Paul Raphael Rooney

Book Overview

The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers' purchasing choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367787040
• ISBN13: 9780367787042
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages