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Author | : Richard D. Altick |
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Release | : 1957 |
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Download The English Common Reader: a Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Adelene Buckland |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135196190X |
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In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.
Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Best sellers |
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Author | : Anne Fadiman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2000-11-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780374527228 |
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A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
Author | : Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | : Sullivan Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781447479123 |
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Virginia Woolf is well known as one of the most prominent fiction writers of the twentieth century, what may be less well known is her astounding collection of letters and essays. Here is the collection first published in 1925, aimed at 'the Common reader', Woolf produced an eccentric and personal literary and social history of European thought in her own unique style, this collection helped cement Woolf as one of the most popular writers of her time.
Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Books and reading |
ISBN | : 9780608092577 |
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Author | : Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | : Bibliotech Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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A far cry from her wistful and introspective fiction, Woolf's essays on literature read as lively, droll, and conversational. These essays focus on famous literary figures as well as the craft of fiction; written in confident but inviting prose designed specifically for what Woolf called the common reader, they interweave biography, wit, social commentary, and literary analysis. Woolf typically seems disinterested in offering definitive arguments or reaching grand conclusions. She instead concerns herself with viewing a given writer or topic from several interpretive angles so that she might reveal as much about her subject as she can in a single essay, to a broad audience consisting of non-academic readers. Favorite essays included "Notes on an Elizabethan Play," "Modern Fiction," "Outlines," and "How it Strikes a Contemporary." (Michael)
Author | : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Celestial mechanics |
ISBN | : 019852675X |
Download Newton's Principia for the Common Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica provides a coherent and deductive presentation of his discovery of the universal law of gravitation. It is very much more than a demonstration that 'to us it is enough that gravity really does exist and act according to the laws which wehave explained and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies and the sea'. It is important to us as a model of all mathematical physics.Representing a decade's work from a distinguished physicist, this is the first comprehensive analysis of Newton's Principia without recourse to secondary sources. Professor Chandrasekhar analyses some 150 propositions which form a direct chain leading to Newton's formulation of his universal law ofgravitation. In each case, Newton's proofs are arranged in a linear sequence of equations and arguments, avoiding the need to unravel the necessarily convoluted style of Newton's connected prose. In almost every case, a modern version of the proofs is given to bring into sharp focus the beauty,clarity, and breath-taking economy of Newton's methods.Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is one of the most reknowned scientists of the twentieth century, whose career spanned over 60 years. Born in India, educated at the University of Cambridge in England, he served as Emeritus Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at theUniversity of Chicago, where he has was based from 1937 until his death in 1996. His early research into the evolution of stars is now a cornerstone of modern astrophysics, and earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983. Later work into gravitational interactions between stars, the properties offluids, magnetic fields, equilibrium ellipsoids, and black holes has earned him awards throughout the world, including the Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in London (1953), the National Medal of Science in the United States (1966), and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society (1984).His many publications include Radiative transfer (1950), Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability (1961), and The mathematical theory of black holes (1983), each being praised for its breadth and clarity. Newton's Principia for the common reader is the result of Professor Chandrasekhar's profoundadmiration for a scientist whose work he believed is unsurpassed, and unsurpassable.
Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674807310 |
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History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.
Author | : Alan Bennett |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2007-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429934530 |
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From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.