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Product Description: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals...read more
Hardcover:
9780691114170 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 9, 2012, cover price $33.95
Paperback:
9780691159546 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, October 27, 2013), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading.
Hardcover:
9780300170924 | Yale Univ Pr, November 29, 2011, cover price $20.00
Hardcover:
9780754638049 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, February 1, 2005, cover price $149.95
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Hardcover:
9780521782081 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $99.99
Paperback:
9780521539395 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $44.99
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