Richard Daniel Altick

John J. Fenstermaker

Since The Art of Literary Research was first published in 1963, it has been the established guide to the purposes, methods, and pleasures of research in English and American literature. It is the essential companion for courses in bibliography and research techniques and for programs in independent study, advanced composition, and undergraduate honors.

The Art of Literary Research

The Scholar Adventurers

Life in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age.

Victorian People and Ideas

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Describes how nineteenth-century English novelists used details of everyday life and the common knowledge of their day in their works

Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel

The Presence of the Present

The English Common Reader was the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of how the ordinary Englishman became a reader. A rich social history as well as a history of the English reading public, the book has become a classic. It will continue to be read and enjoyed by scholars and students as we make our way through another age of profound social change for the reader and for the book. This edition features an extensive new bibliography.

A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900

The English Common Reader

An examination of London exhibitions as they evolved from displays of relics in pre-Reformation churches, through the collections of eighteenth-century virtuosi, to the first science museums and public galleries of the mid-Victorian period illuminates English social history

Richard Daniel Altick

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