Print and the People 1819-1851 Enlarged Edition Contributor(s): James, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1911454285 ISBN-13: 9781911454281 Publisher: Edward Everett Root OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Social History |
Series: Classics in Social and Economic History |
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 7" W x 10" (1.45 lbs) 380 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This work offers a wonderfully illustrated guide - and a rigorous analysis - of popular print and literature in all its many forms in the first half of the 19th century. |
Contributor Bio(s): James, Louis: - Louis James is Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Modern Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He began his academic career in the University of Hull adult education Department, followed by a lectureship at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. In 1966 he left to join the newly established University of Kent at Canterbury, from where he took years out to teach at Universities in the United States, Africa and the Far East. His publications on Victorian and postcolonial literatures include Fiction for the Working Man (1963); The Islands in Between (1968); Print and the People (1976); Jean Rhys (1978); Caribbean Writing in English (1999), and The Victorian Novel (2006). More recently he edited, with Anne Humphreys, G.W.M. Reynolds. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics and the Press (2008). |