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FA-52713-06
The Stenographic Imagination: Office Work and the Work of Literature in Modern Britain
Leah Price, President and Fellows of Harvard College
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Book)
Title: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Author: Leah Price
Abstract: 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 book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap?
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9714.html
Type: Single author monograph

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