Adelene Buckland: 2 books
Novel Science
Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice...
A Return to the Common Reader
Print Culture and the Novel, 1850–1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return...