The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fict

The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fict

In Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel, Vanessa L. Ryan demonstrates how both the form and the experience of reading novels played an important rol

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