How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (71 page)
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Authors: Leah Price
More, Hannah,
151
;
Cheap
Repository
Tracts
,
152
,
154
,
209
;
The
Shepherd
of
Salisbury
Plain
,
30
;
Sunday
School
,
153
; “The Sunday School,”
154
;
Tales
,
190
; “Tom White, the Postilion,”
152
;
Works
,
209–10
Moretti, Franco,
21
;
Graphs, Maps, Trees
,
21
;
The
Way
of
the
World
,
127
mothers: in Dickens,
86
; engrossed in smartphones,
53
; as ignoring children,
51–52
,
67
,
75
; as ignoring duties,
68
; reading as corrupting,
69
.
See
also
women
movable type,
225
Mozley, Anne,
90
,
163
,
252
; “On Fiction as an Educator,”
88–89
“Mr Bragwell and his Two Daughters,”
209–10
Mudie, Charles Edward, “Mr. Mudie’s Library,”
143–44
,
247
Munro, Jeffrey,
Half
Hours
with
Popular
Authors
,
97
“My mistress’s bonnet,”
188
narrator,
77
; and bildungsroman,
124
,
129
; interiority of,
78
; and it-narrative,
109
,
111
,
115
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
120
,
122
,
123
,
124
,
125
,
126
,
127
,
129
; omniscient,
17
; and religious tracts,
122
; and represented book,
76
; and
Story
of
a
Pocket
Bible
,
112–13
,
165
; and unrealized acts of inscription,
92
Nead, Lynda,
248
Needham, Joseph,
220
Nelson, Craig,
245
Nevius, J. L.,
161
New Bibliography,
33
New Historicism,
16
Newlyn, Lucy,
140
newspapers,
12
,
35
,
50–51
,
70
,
113
,
219
,
263
n4; and Anderson,
261
; in Dickens,
127
; ephemerality of,
38
; as fish wrapping,
6
; and flypaper,
238
; and gender,
48
; and hand-me-down clothes,
184
; hiding behind,
6
,
62
,
63
; and home vs. public sphere,
51
; and husbands,
55–56
,
62
,
73
,
203
; husbands as hiding behind,
13
,
51
,
62
; life cycle of,
261
; man’s,
52
; for the masses,
55
; and masters and servants,
178
,
183
,
197
; and Mayhew,
221
,
224
; mechanical production of,
218
; and men and women,
177
; multiple users of,
176–77
,
247
,
261
; and niche marketing,
165
; and novels,
47
,
48–49
; and postage,
145
,
146
; price of,
247
; production of,
142
; as rag,
5
; and sales vs. advertising revenues,
149
; and strangers,
15
,
51
; and taxes,
38
,
141
; in Trollope,
48–49
,
83
; and wives,
62
.
See
also
paper
Newton, John,
127
New
York’s Gift, The
,
162
Nightingale, Florence:
Cassandra
,
214
,
215
;
Florence
Nightingale
on
Mysticism
and
Eastern
Religions
,
282
n29
Nissenbaum, Stephen,
162
Nixon, Edward John,
155
nonreading/unread works,
2
,
3
,
8
,
9
,
69
,
77–82
,
121
,
124
,
133
,
160
,
170
; in aristocratic libraries,
40
; and Austen,
73
; in Brontë,
78
,
80–82
; and Dickens,
73
,
74
,
78
,
95
; evidence of,
19
; and Flaubert,
74
; in G. Eliot,
70
,
78–80
; and mothers,
69
; and Oliphant,
55
; and pretending to read,
47–49
,
55–56
; purchase of,
85
; and reading as front,
71
; representations of,
67
; senses of,
8
; and servants,
113
; and Thackeray,
66
; and Trollope,
48
,
51
,
62
,
67
,
70
,
73
,
78
,
176
; as wedge,
51
novel of manners,
260
novel(s),
198
,
219
; ambivalence about reading in,
67
; as antisocial,
176
; and claim to be freely chosen,
176
; and class,
105–6
; as commodity,
14
; as distracting,
193
; distribution of tracts in,
206–7
; fashion for,
246–47
; and gender,
48
; and jokes about distribution of tracts,
176
; manufacture of,
219
; and masters and servants,
197
; and Mayhew,
221
,
243
,
251
,
287
n6; and men and women,
177
; and middle-class,
15
; and newspapers,
47
,
48–49
; and nonmarket forms of distribution,
213
; pulping of,
219
; realistic,
26
; and selfhood,
216
; and sensation,
77
; short-and long-term popularity of,
247
; tracts as filler in,
206
; tracts as mirrored in,
207
; triple-deckers,
13
,
15
,
25
,
206
,
247
,
254
; and Trollope,
59
numismatics,
109
.
See
also
coins
Nunokawa, Jeff, “Eros and Isolation,”
62
Obama, Barack,
15
object narratives.
See
it-narratives
O’Brien, Flann,
19–20
Obscene Publications Act of 1857,
196
Oliphant, Margaret,
166–67
;
Kirsteen
,
55
,
68
,
261
“One Thing at a Time,”
188
,
190
,
191
Ong, Walter,
104
Orwell, George,
Animal
Farm
,
28–29
“Our Ladies’ Chatterbox,”
97
Oxford University Press,
28
Paddington Dust Wharf District,
161
page(s): and clothes,
248
; dog-eared,
257
; faded,
257
; and groceries,
245
; and paper,
26
; smell of,
256–57
; as street,
94
; uncut,
19
,
70
,
197
,
240
,
249
,
256
,
257
,
259
.
See
also
book(s)
Pall
Mall
Gazette
,
142
pamphlets,
239
paper,
236
; absorbency of,
9
,
11
; and Addison,
234–35
; body as,
102–3
; character as piece of,
94
; cheapening of,
11
,
15
; circulation of,
110
; and class,
180–81
; for curlpapers,
10
,
99
,
231
; for dress patterns,
54–55
,
56
,
219
; durability of,
225
; exceptionality and typicality of,
223
; as food wrapping,
8
,
92
,
93
,
226
,
231–32
,
233–34
,
239
,
250
,
252
; high cost of,
5
; and it-narratives,
231
; and Knight,
235–36
; as legible grocery wrapping,
252
; life cycle of,
11
,
110
,
227
,
238
,
239–40
; for lighting fire,
232
,
233
,
236
; machine-made,
141
; making of,
9
,
11
,
14
,
144
,
229–30
; and Mayhew,
221–45
,
246
,
248–49
,
255–56
; as mortal,
251
; nontextual, practical uses for,
160
; and pages,
26
; for pie plates,
10
,
27
,
31
,
54–55
,
56
,
219
; and preservation vs. destruction,
225–26
; price of,
249–54
; production of,
141
; properties of,
17
; rag,
28
; rag substitutes for,
249
; raw material for,
127–28
; recycling of,
12
,
14
,
15
,
221
,
239
,
288
n7; and relations among rich and poor,
235
; resale of,
9
,
148
,
221
,
222
,
223
,
231
,
238
,
239
,
242
; restricted imports of,
9
; scarcity of,
8–9
,
206
; scarcity vs. surfeit of,
216
; for sealing food,
9
; and sex,
77
; sizing for,
9
; successive handlers of,
183
; taxes on,
9
,
38
,
141
,
219
,
220
,
225
,
249
,
290
n31; as uniting classes through handling,
239
; use by pastry-cook,
239
; use by trunk-maker,
239
; uses of,
219–20
; for wiping excrement,
219
,
220
,
226–27
,
231
,
233
; and wood pulp,
219
,
220
,
249–50
; for wrapping,
220
.
See
also
book(s); newspapers; wastepaper
parents,
12
,
13
,
15
,
90
,
91
; and books as shields,
57
; books from,
109
,
162
,
163
,
164
,
167
; and censorship,
203
; and found manuscript,
251
; influence of,
165
,
189
; lies to,
202
.
See
also
children; mothers
Park, Rev. Harrison G.,
Father’s and Mother’s Manual and Youth’s Instructor
,
52
Parks, Lisa,
224
“Parlour Library,”
62
Pawnbrokers’ Gazette, The
,
189–90
Pearson, Jacqueline,
Women’s Reading in Britain
,
285
n27
Penny
Magazine
,
141
penny serials,
206
Pepys, Samuel,
96
Percy, Thomas,
Reliques
of
Ancient
English
Poetry
,
236
personification,
133
,
134
.
See
also
it-narratives
Peters, John Durham
, Speaking into the Air
,
280
n6
Peterson, Carla,
The
Determined
Reader
,
274
n12
Petrarch, Francis,
132
Petroski, Henry,
23
Pfister, Joel,
22
Phiz [H. K. Browne],
99
; “Our Housekeeping,”
The
Personal
History
of
David
Copperfield
by
Charles
Dickens
,
100
Phonetic
Journal
,
97
Picker, John M.,
95
Pickering, Samuel F., Jr.,
285
n21
“Pioneer Work in China,”
244–45
Piozzi, Hester,
132–33
Pitman, Isaac,
99
;
Stenographic
Soundhand
,
96
Pitmanism,
96–97
Pitman reprints,
99
Plato,
102
Platonism,
32
Plotz, John: “Out of Circulation,”
266
n15;
Portable
Property
,
285
n24
Polastron, Lucien X
., Books on Fire
,
286
n1
poor people,
9
,
11
,
17
,
87
,
162
,
231
,
235
,
261
Poovey, Mary:
Genres
of
the
Credit
Economy
,
278
n13; “The Limits of the Universal Knowledge Project,”
266
n10;
Uneven
Developments
,
95
,
98–99
,
101
Pope, Alexander,
9–10
Popper, Karl,
32
Popular
German
Reader
,
98
Porteus, Bishop,
210
postage,
145
,
146
,
286
n30; and payment on delivery vs. prepayment,
145
,
147–48
; penny,
14
postal system,
6
,
35
,
145
,
216–17
; reform of,
146
,
199
.
See
also
junk mail; mail
Potato Famine,
206
Pratt, Sarah G. S.,
First
Homes
,
276
n3
Price, Leah:
The
Anthology
and
the
Rise
of
the
Novel
,
282
n30; “Stenographic Masculinity,”
95
,
275
n16
printed matter,
16
,
32–33
,
94
,
225–26
; as chain,
14–15
; free and subsidized,
12
; and human relationships,
113
; and manuscripts,
216
; physicality of,
219
; and postage,
286
n30
printing,
20
; changes in,
11
; cost of raw materials for,
141
; employment in,
141
; speed and cost of,
141
; and steam-printing,
141
print media vs. digital media,
7
print metaphor,
101–2
privy,
7
,
18
.
See
also
paper: for wiping excrement
production,
35
; cost of,
144
; traditional focus on,
20
“Progress of Fiction as an Art, The,”
241
prosopopoeia,
122
Prosser, Sophie Amelia,
Susan
Osgood’s Prize
,
68–69
,
113
Protestantism,
16
,
39
,
40
,
135
,
157
,
164
,
203–4
pseudomemoirs,
250
Public Libraries Act of 1850,
62
,
244
/files/20/75/06/f207506/public/private spectrum,
61–62
,
175
Puccini, Giacomo, and Henri Murger,
La
Bohème
,
237
Pugh, S. S.,
133
pulping,
7
Punch
,
51
,
52
,
62
,
186
,
276
n30,
281
n16,
283
n2; “An Appeal Case. House of Lords,”
58
; “Bachelor Days. IV,”
281
n16; “Emancipation,”
60
,
61
; “The Honeymoon,”
64
; “Married for Money—The Honeymoon,”
63
; “A Perfect Wretch,”
65
; “Report of the Select Committee on Parliamentary Petitions,”
232
; and “Singular Letter from the Regent of Spain,”
204–6
; “A Soft Answer,”
187
; “The Waning of the Honeymoon,”
66
Punch’s Prize Novels
,
85
puns.
See
wordplay/puns