Louis James

Broschiertes Buch

Print and the People 1819-1851

Beschreibung

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. It provides a unique collection of illustrated popular literature published between the events of 'Peterloo' in 1819 and the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edward Everett Root
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9781911454281
• ISBN-10: 1911454285
• Artikelnr.: 48812380