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Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading - Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading - Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.
248 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 12, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781625343833 |
Publishers | University of Massachusetts Press |
Pages | 248 |
Dimensions | 151 × 228 × 21 mm · 385 g |
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