Mark Towsey

Broschiertes Buch

Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750-c.1840

Beschreibung

This book explores the success of historical literature from the perspective of the reading audience in the period c.1750-c.1840. Drawing on a variety of sources including marginalia, letters, diaries and commonplace books, it reveals why histories were so popular, and how they were used by readers across the English-speaking world.

Autor

Mark Towsey is Professor in the History of the Book and Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. His previous publications include Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 (2010) and Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781108716185
• ISBN-10: 1108716180
• Artikelnr.: 60719377