1st Edition

Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series

By Paul Raphael Rooney Copyright 2018
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ purchasing choices... Read more

Introduction: Audiences and Publisher’s Series



1. Railway Readers in the Post-1870 Reading Climate



2. "Food for the Mind," Consumer Choices, and the Railway Bookstall Environment



3. Second Generation Yellowbacks: Chatto & Windus’s Cheap Editions of Popular Novels (1877-1897)



4. Transnational Crime Writing and the Cheap Series Reprint: Routledge’s Sixpenny Detective Books (1887-1888)



5. "As necessary to the traveller as a rug in winter and a dust-coat in summer": Light Reading and Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library (1884-1898)



Conclusion

Biography

Paul Raphael Rooney is an early career researcher of Victorian print culture and popular fiction. He was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin and has also worked as a research assistant on the Irish Research Council Nineteenth-Century Trade Periodicals project at the National University of Ireland, Galway.