Title: Writers, readers, and occasions :
Authors: Altick, Richard D.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Ohio State University Press,
Physical description: xii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Writers: "A grammarian's funeral": Browning's praise of folly? -- The symbolism of Browning's "Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha" -- Lovers' finiteness: Browning's "Two in the Campagna" -- "Andrea del Sarto": the kingdom of hell is within -- Carlyle's Past and present: topicality as technique -- Education, print, and paper in Our mutual friend -- Bleak House: the reach of chapter one -- The sociology of authorship: the social origins, education, and occupations of 1,100 British writers, 1800-1935 -- Readers: Varieties of readers' response: the case of Dombey and Son -- English publishing and the mass audience in 1852 -- The literature of an imminent democracy, 1859 -- From Aldine to Everyman: cheap reprint series of the English classics, 1830-1906 -- Cope's tobacco plant: an episode in Victorian journalism -- The reading public in England and America in 1900 -- Occasions: Four Victorian poets and an exploding island -- The volcano and a coral reef -- Adventures of an annotator -- "Our gallant colonel" in Punch and Parliament -- An uncommon curiosity: in search of the shows of London -- Victorians on the move; or, "Tis forty years since.
Notes: Spine title: Writers, readers & occasions. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.