The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

Sobre el libro The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period de William St. Clair publicado por Cambridge UP al 2007:

St Clair investigates how the national culture can be understood through a quantitative study of the books that were read. Centred on the romantic period in the English-speaking world, but ranging across the whole print era, he reaches startling conclusions about the forces that determined how ideas were carried, through print, into wider society.