How to do things with books in Victorian Britain / Leah Price.

Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2012], ©2012.

350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-325) and index.

Reader's block -- Anthony Trollope and the repellent book -- David Copperfield and the absorbent book -- It-narrative and the book as agent -- The book as burden : junk mail and religious tracts -- The book as go-between : domestic servants and forced reading -- The book as waste : Henry Mayhew and the fall of paper recycling.