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November 01 2019
Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
. By Donna
Harrington-Lueker
. (Boston and Amherst
: University of Massachusetts Press
, 2019
. Pp. xiv, 229. $90.00 cloth. $29.95 paper
.)
Sarah Wadsworth
Sarah Wadsworth
Sarah Wadsworth is a professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) and coauthor, with Wayne A. Wiegand, of Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012).
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Sarah Wadsworth
Sarah Wadsworth is a professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) and coauthor, with Wayne A. Wiegand, of Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012).
Online Issn: 1937-2213
Print Issn: 0028-4866
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The New England Quarterly
The New England Quarterly (2019) 92 (4): 681–683.
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Sarah Wadsworth; Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading. The New England Quarterly 2019; 92 (4): 681–683. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00783
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