Reading on the Farm
Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World
Published on 8. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-0-86473-635-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Reading on the Farm, Lydia Wevers uses the library on Brancepeth Station in the Wairarapa, its staff and users as the ground for an extended reflection on the meaning of books, reading and intellectual life in colonial New Zealand.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wellington
New Zealand
Publishing group
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86473-635-2 (9780864736352)
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Person
Lydia Wevers is a leading literary historian and critic and the director of Stout Research Center at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of Country of Writing: Travel Writing About New Zealand 1809-1900, On Display, and On Reading.