Victorian Novel Seminar Review Essay
From Commonplace Book
- Approaches to print culture post-Leah Price
- book history
- media theory/studies
- periodicals studies
- eco-book history (Gidal)
- information/library history
- Liz Miller, Leah Price — maybe not so narrow time-wise
- Priya Joshi, In Another Country
- How those fields meet and how a book history approach intersects with and is different from reception history
- Joshi and Gidal are reception history
- James Seacord Victorian Sensation
- Distinct from binding and wood pulp —> literal material history is not so much done (ecological/industrial underpinnings)
- Wooden Os
- acid, hazardousness in print industry
- Use this to build an exam list
- Reception history is important but I (am/am not) doing that —> where you want to go and what you want to find
Reading List
- Price 2012 - Price, Leah. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain.
- Gidal 2015 - Gidal, Eric. Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age. University of Virginia Press, 2015. Print.
- Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire (which chapters?)
Potential Sources
- Miller, Slow Print
- Mussell, C19 Press in Digital Age
- Worth, Imperial Media
- Shannon, Dickens Reynolds Mayhew on Wellington St
