Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World by Wevers, Lydia

Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780864736352)

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Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World by Wevers, Lydia

Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World

$22.95
Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World by Wevers, Lydia

Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Providing a snapshot of a lost time, this record utilizes the Victorian library on Brancepeth Station in the Wairarapa, its staff, and its customers to reflect upon the significance of books, reading, and intellectual life in colonial New Zealand. The station records, library archives, and the books themselves--based on borrowing histories, physical conditions, and marginalia--offer a compelling interpretation of the social and cultural implications of reading at that time. Examining characters such as the Beetham family, Wairarapa Maori, and especially librarian John Vaughn Miller, this intriguing account exemplifies the class cleavages, social anxieties, and uncertainties that were at the heart of both Brancepeth and popular Victorian fiction.

Author: Lydia Wevers
ISBN-10: 0864736355
ISBN-13: 9780864736352
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By Lydia Wevers
By Lydia Wevers
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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.

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