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

 · 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 .  · 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 as a peculiar object in its own right, quite apart from its content, or as we say now, the 'text.'.  · How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain: Author: Leah Price: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN: , Length: pages.

Showing just how much weight the materiality of printed matter was made to carry in Victorian Britain, Price anatomizes the meanings that were ascribed to the things people did with books other than reading them. This wide-ranging analysis is fascinating in its own right, but in making it, Price also throws down a gauntlet. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond. Référence(s): Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton Oxford, Princeton University Press, , www.doorway.ru

Référence (s): Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton Oxford, Princeton University Press, , p. ISBN My books include What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (Basic Books, , Ukrainian translation ; Christian Gauss Prize); How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton UP, ; Patten Prize, Channing Prize, honorable mention for James Russell Lowell Prize) and The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (Cambridge UP, ). 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?”.