Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading - Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book - Donna Harrington-Lueker - Books - University of Massachusetts Press - 9781625343826 - December 12, 2018
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Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading - Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book


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Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.


248 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 12, 2018
ISBN13 9781625343826
Publishers University of Massachusetts Press
Pages 248
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   453 g

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