Playing with the book: Victorian movable picture books and the child reader
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 371864_76036
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- ISBN
- 9781517901776
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The Victorian era saw an explosion of novelty picture books with flaps to lift and tabs to pull, pages that could fold out, and mounted mechanical toys. Richly illustrated with rare antique examples, Playing with the Book (Minnesota, 2019) shows how novelty books construct a reading process that involves touch as well as sight, reconfiguring our understanding of the phenomenology of reading and the child as reader. The book (248pp with 80 illustrations) stems from ten years’ innovative archival research, including Field’s appointment as the Sussex/V & A Fellow (2017), and received a Publication Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre.
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- Non-English
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