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082			_a028.9 _bSTC
100			_aSt. Clair, William
245			_aReading nation in the romantic period
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2007 _aCambridge :
300			_axxix, 765 p. ; _bill., facsims, _c23 cm
365			_b33.99 _cGBP _d104.40
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aDuring the four centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, everyone engaged in politics, education, religion, and literature believed that reading helped to shape the minds, opinions, attitudes, and ultimately the actions, of readers." "William St. Clair investigates how the national culture can be understood through a quantitative study of the books that were actually read. Centred on the romantic period in the English-speaking world, but ranging across the whole print era, he reaches startling conclusions about the forces that determined how ideas were carried, through print, into wider society.
650			_aEngland Intellectual life
650			_aBooks Industry
650			_aTrade England History
650			_aBooks and reading
650			_aSocial aspects History
650			_aEngland History
650			_aCriticism
650			_ainterpretation
650			_aEnglish literature
650			_aHistory and criticism
650			_aLiterature and society
650			_aPrint era
650			_aBook prices
650			_aPrint runs
650			_aIntellectual property
650			_aReaderships
650			_a Booksellers
650			_aLibraries
650			_aManuscript
650			_aNovels
650			_aReaders
650			_a Romantic period
650			_aVolumes
650			_aWriting
650			_aEnglish literature
650			_aReacting societies
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