Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series

ISBN-13: 9781138285637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 180 str.

Paul Raphael Rooney

Opis

Focusing on the publisher’s series, this book explores the leading audience demographics in the late-Victorian railway with particular focus on key variables like socio-economic status, gender, and cultural aptitude. It examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengers’ need for literary reading matter and belonging to each of the three main pricing tiers of series publishing. This study reflects the recent growth in scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in nineteenth-century studies.

O autorze

Paul Raphael Rooney is an early career researcher of Victorian print culture and popular fiction. He was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin and has also worked as a research assistant on the　Irish Research Council　Nineteenth-Century Trade Periodicals project at the National University of Ireland, Galway.