Ebook {Epub PDF} How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price

The printed book, certainly, will always be part of our media environment, although perhaps in unexpected ways. This lends particular interest to How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, by Leah Price, a Harvard English professor. Her study is set in an era when mass production of books had not yet quite eliminated a sense of the book.  · In her introduction to How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Professor of English and Chair of the History Literature program at Harvard University, Leah Price, asks a few key questions: “ what meanings do books make even, or especially, when they go unread? And why did Victorian authors care?”/5. I give "How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain" five stars only because of the depth of scholarship exhibited by Dr. Leah Price a distinguished professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her short but densely written book explains in great detail many fascinating facts about the use of books in a nonliterary way in Victorian England ().3/5(1).

Excerpt: 'How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain' by Leah Price Septem 'The Book Shop', from The Book of Shops, Francis Bedford Donkin, Référence(s): Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton Oxford, Princeton University Press, , bltadwin.ru In the March/April issue, I devoted this space to Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, published by Yale University Press and edited by Leah Price, a scholar at bltadwin.ru column continues the conversation, taking up Price's How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, published in May by Princeton University Press.. If you are a literary scholar or a historian whose turf is.

A review of Leah Price's "How to do things with books in Victorian Britain". eah Price obviously enjoyed writing this book, and you will enjoy reading it. Unlike most literary criticism and literary history written today, How to do things with books pretty much avoids jargon and instead uses clear, strong writing continually spiced with wit to reveal many things we have overlooked in our own reading. In her introduction to How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Professor of English and Chair of the History Literature program at Harvard University, Leah Price, asks a few key questions: “ what meanings do books make even, or especially, when they go unread? And why did Victorian authors care?”. Référence (s): Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton Oxford, Princeton University Press, , p. ISBN