Read How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain Online
Authors: Leah Price
Babbage, Charles,
143
banknotes,
108
,
109
,
172
,
231
,
278
n13
Baptist
Magazine
,
134
Barrie, J. M., “A Poem,”
181
Battles, Matthew,
90
Beetham, Margaret, “In Search of the Historical Reader,”
247
Beeton, Isabella,
Mrs
Beeton’s Book of Household Management
,
182
Bell, Bill, “Bound for Australia,
61–62
Bell, Florence,
202
Benjamin, Walter, “Unpacking My Library,”
121
,
263
n1
Bennett, Arnold,
196
Bernstein, Charles,
A
Poetics
,
272
n1
Bernstein, Robin, “Dances with Things,”
263
n3
Best, Mrs.,
The
History
of
a
Family
Bible
,
171–72
,
206
Bewick, Thomas,
Birds
,
72
,
74
,
78
,
82
Bezos, Jeff,
5
Bible,
36
,
70
,
133
,
219
; and bibles,
4
; binding of,
2
,
6
,
181–82
; circulation of,
111
; covers of,
181–82
; family,
79
,
168
,
171–72
,
173
,
174
; and format and social class,
180–82
; in G. Eliot,
79
,
168
,
170
,
171
,
174
; as gift,
115
,
123
,
151
,
155
,
162
,
189
,
209
; as locked-up,
122
; and Mayhew,
227
,
249
; nontextual, practical uses for,
40
,
160
; shared among different audiences,
175
; and social classes,
115
; and social differences,
175
; and uses other than reading,
39–40
; as wastepaper,
157
,
159
bibles,
12
,
14
,
30
,
109
,
113
; binding of,
6
,
28
; births and deaths recorded in,
40
; and Catholicism,
39
; and death,
227
,
228
; and disease,
195
; distribution of,
156–62
; donation of,
155
; durability of,
38
; eating of,
11
,
40
; faith in reading of,
41
; and format and social class,
180–81
; and invalids,
40
; and it-narratives,
121
,
231
; and masters and servants,
15
; and Mayhew,
221
; and native graves,
40
; and niche marketing,
165
; and oaths,
40
; oaths of revenge sworn upon,
36
,
168
,
171
; and Obama,
15
; price of,
6
,
38
,
158
; pristine condition of,
19
; read under wrong circumstances,
189–90
; resale for gin,
206
; sale of,
115
,
155
; as shield against bullets,
40
; socially appropriate owner for,
116
; as subsidized,
6
,
123
; and taxes,
220
; value of,
157
bible societies,
151
bibliographers,
10
,
12
,
32
,
34
; and preservation vs. use,
225
; as servant/handmaid,
237
,
240
,
252
bibliographical materialism,
110
bibliographical tradition,
131
bibliographic codes vs. linguistic codes,
35
bibliography,
107
,
109
; analytical,
130
,
131
,
134
bibliomancers,
18
bibliomania,
3
bildungsroman,
14
,
16
,
17
,
37
,
107
,
193
,
203
,
260
,
284
n19; adults as blocking figures in,
204
; book acquisition in,
84
,
86–88
; and child and text,
91
; and development of literary sensibility,
130
; and didactic texts,
68
; and family,
73
; and hatred of books,
17
; and interiority,
78
; and it-narrative,
124–30
,
131
; and models of causation,
12
; post-Romantic psychologizing of,
131
; and reading and individualism,
176
; reading in,
6
,
72
,
77–78
Binkley, Robert,
217
Birrell, Augustine, “Book-Buying,”
230
Black, Alistair, “The Library as Clinic,”
196
Blackstone, William,
Commentaries
,
256
Blackwoods
Magazine
,
88
Blades, William,
The
Enemies
of
Books
,
182
,
183
,
194
Blair, Ann,
34
Bluebeard,
185
body/bodies,
2
,
104
,
116
,
124
; and book and text,
78
,
129
; book as conduit for,
197
; book as displacing vs. conjuring up,
31
; and books,
30
; of Christ,
123
; and clothing and binding,
133
; and Dickens,
78
,
99
,
101
,
102
,
106
; in Eliot,
79
; and experience,
75
; and it-narrative,
118
,
125
; and masters and servants,
184
,
185–86
; materiality of vulnerable,
75
; and Mayhew,
238
; and mind,
26
,
27
,
75
,
78
,
79
,
106
,
129
; as paper or parchment,
102–3
; and Pitman,
99
; position of printed object in relation to,
45
; puns about,
26
,
27
,
78
; and soul,
144
; as writing surface,
101
,
102
Bogue, David,
164
bookbinding,
1–2
,
3
,
170
,
184
; from animal skins,
28–30
; of Bible,
2
,
6
,
28
,
181–82
; calfskin,
1
; and class,
178
,
180–81
; and clothing,
2
,
5
,
6
,
56
,
132–33
,
144
; crushed Morocco,
28
; in Dickens,
1–2
; pigskin,
27
,
28
; and prize books,
162
; puns on,
27
; slaves’s skin as,
123
; socially appropriate,
116
; and use by masters and servants,
178
book collecting,
182–83
book historians,
12
,
33
,
34
,
35–36
,
37
,
107
,
131
book history,
20
; and literary-critical theory and practice,
12
; and personification,
134
; and Victorian realist fiction,
28
bookmark,
197
book-object: and bildungsroman,
77
; and children,
88
,
91
; and Dickens,
21
; and disease,
196
; and gentry,
11
; hatred for lovers of,
78
; and it-narratives,
110
,
132
; and materiality,
4
; usefulness of,
233
,
263
n4
book reviews,
25
,
232
,
233
,
240–41
,
243
,
251
,
252
,
253
book(s),
6
,
103
; abjection of,
220
; and absence of beloved,
197–98
; abstraction of,
12
,
31
; acquisition vs. choice of,
150
; adaptability of,
224
; age vs. price of,
246–47
; aging of,
130
; assimilation to,
129
; authenticity and appearance of,
3
; as banished,
226
; as barrier,
14
; as block,
113
; as bridge,
14
,
17
,
113
,
198
; as buffer,
17
,
58
,
81
; as burden,
139
; burning of,
3
,
9
,
126
; buying, renting, or borrowing of,
117
; coffee-table,
8
,
35
,
93
; commissioning, manufacture, and transmission of,
31
; cover vs. content of,
3
; as demonized,
16
; and differences of rank and age,
17
; display of,
6
; exceptionalism of,
35
; expensive,
33
; and fashion,
3
; fetishism of,
11
,
40
; and flame,
22
; and freedom,
5
; fumigation of,
195
,
228
,
259
; as gift,
6
,
49
,
109
,
115
,
123
,
139
,
146
,
149
,
151
,
155
,
156
,
162
,
163
,
189
,
204
; as heroes,
16
; and human associations,
113
; as human beings,
131–32
; humanized,
126
; and human relationships,
124
; idea of,
9
; inherited,
6
; in judgment over persons,
122
,
123
,
133
,
134
; life cycle of,
107
,
109
,
129
,
134
,
153
,
221
,
227
,
231
,
238
,
239
,
250
,
255
; love for look of,
2
; as manufactured good vs. found object,
90
; manufacture of,
122
; marketed for collective reading at home,
62
; as material thing,
3
,
4
,
14
,
20
,
72
,
76
,
78
,
91
; as moving across social scale,
247
; as negative space,
78
; as object or commodity,
76
; order of possession of,
131
; out of date,
6
; overproduction of,
140–45
; ownership vs. intention to read,
150
; personhood endowed to,
123
; physicality of,
4
,
77
,
144–45
; as picaresque wanderer,
17
; placed,
18
; power of,
7
; powers to unite and to divide,
13
; preservation vs. destruction of,
225–26
; price or appearance of,
5
; pricing of,
90
; as prisoner,
12
,
57
,
111–12
,
126
,
127
,
226
; prize,
162–63
; representation of,
12
,
16
,
36
,
49–50
,
67
; respect for,
8
,
186
,
188
; scorn for outsides of,
3
; sofa-table,
18
,
70
,
84
,
113
,
169
,
183
; as term,
4
; and text,
2
,
4–5
,
10–11
,
20
,
25–26
,
40
,
78
,
129
; vulnerability of,
123–24
; as wedge,
198
.
See
also
page(s); paper
Book-stall boy of Batherton, The
,
205
book throwing,
72
,
75
,
76
,
77
,
80
,
88
,
93
,
113
Bosanquet, Helen, “Cheap Literature,”
201
Boston Society for the Religious and Moral Improvement of Seamen,
Adventures
of
a
Bible
,
122
Boswell, James,
233
Bourdieu, Pierre,
265
n8
Bowl
of
Punch, A
,
205
Braby, Maud Churton,
Modern
Marriage
and
How
to
Bear
It
,
60–61