Lydia Wevers

Broschiertes Buch

Reading on the Farm

Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World

Beschreibung

In Reading on the Farm, Lydia Wevers uses the library on Brancepeth Station in the Wairarapa, its staff and users as the ground for an extended reflection on the meaning of books, reading and intellectual life in colonial New Zealand.

Autor

Lydia Wevers is a leading literary historian and critic and the director of Stout Research Center at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of Country of Writing: Travel Writing About New Zealand 1809-1900, On Display, and On Reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Te Herenga Waka University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780864736352
• ISBN-10: 0864736355
• Artikelnr.: 33277504