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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901

Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
200 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am24.08.20181st ed. 2017
The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers´ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and, more broadly, to working-class readers - and leisure - at this period. Murphy´s study also considers the contents of the libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.mehr
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KlappentextThe British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers´ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and, more broadly, to working-class readers - and leisure - at this period. Murphy´s study also considers the contents of the libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-349-71559-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum24.08.2018
Auflage1st ed. 2017
ReiheWar, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Seiten200 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht282 g
IllustrationenXI, 200 p.
Artikel-Nr.37208735
Rubriken
GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- 1. The East India Company´s Libraries.- 2. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in India.- 3. The Regular Army´s Libraries.- 4. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in the Regular Army.- Conclusion.-mehr
Kritik
"There is much of interest in this book-it blends army life in India with changing attitudes at 'Home', in Victorian Britain, and shows how the soldier's life undoubtedly got better during the 19th century. That the civilising influence of libraries had much to do with this may be questionable, but Murphy's book provides a well-researched and readable argument in its favour." (Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society JRAS, May, 2018)mehr

Autor

Sharon Murphy is Lecturer in the School of English at Dublin City University, Ireland, where she is also Director of the Master's in Children's Literature programme. She is a graduate of University College Dublin, and of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is the author of Maria Edgeworth and Romance (2004), and has also contributed to essay collections and journals.