Reading Gladstone

by Ruth Clayton Windscheffel

This interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230007651
• ISBN13: 9780230007659
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"