Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience (New Directions in Book History)

This book explores Victorian readersÆ 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 that underpinned these audiencesÆ engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, exhibitions, and oral culture.

• | Author: Paul Raphael Rooney, Anna Gasperini
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137587601
• | ISBN-13: 9781137587602