num_pages: 796
description: Most people believed that reading significantly influenced minds, attitudes, and actions during the centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could travel across time and distance. William St. Clair offers a very different picture of the past from those presented by traditional approaches through quantified information he provides on book prices, print runs, intellectual property, and readerships gathered from over fifty publishing and printing archives.
language: English
title: The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
titlecomplete: The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
genres: British Literature, History, Books About Books, Literary Criticism, Reference, Research, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Cambridge University Press