Title Crusoe's books : readers in the empire of print, 1800-1918 / Bill Bell

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 271 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) Summary This is a work about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century Notes This edition also issued in print: 2021 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2021) Subject Books and reading -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century Books and reading -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century Travelers -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Travelers -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Travelers -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Travelers -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Great Britain. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191938344 0191938343

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