Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) Cover
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Books for Idle Hours Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

Donna Harrington-Lueker

The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status...

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This book, written by the guest Donna Harrington-Luker, focused on 19th Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading.

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I'm Donna Harrington-Luker, and I'm the author of a book on summer reading called Books for Idle Hours.

— Episode: The summer I turned into a bookworm

Episode: The summer I turned into a bookworm

This book, written by the guest Donna Harrington-Luker, focused on 19th Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading.

"

I'm Donna Harrington-Luker, and I'm the author of a book on summer reading called Books for Idle Hours.

That's Donna Harrington-Luker. She's the author of Books for Idle Hours, 19th Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading.

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