Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

ISBN-13: 9780192894694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Bill Bell

Recenzje

In this richly rewarding study of the dissemination of books through the contact zones that mark the edges of Empire, Bill Bell explores the waywardness of reading: the propensity of both free and unfree colonial subjects, Antarctic explorers, men and women at sea, and soldiers at the front to read athwart the cultural and political determinations of the libraries they assembled or the books they came across. Crusoe's Books is a major contribution to the history of Empire and the history of reading.

O autorze

Bill Bell is Professor of Bibliography at Cardiff University and Senior Research Fellow at The University of Goettingen. He has held visiting posts at the Universities of Canberra, Munich, Ottawa, and St John's College Oxford. He was the founder of the Edinburgh Centre for the History of the Book and is General Editor of The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (4 volumes). His publications also include the co-authored Exploration, Writing and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859 (Chicago, 2015) and he served as editor of the OUP quarterly journal, The Library, the world's premier scholarly journal in bibliography.