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- ↑ Freedgood 2010, p. 84; Price 2009, p. 124.
- ↑ Price 2009, p. 124.
- ↑ Lee 2019, pp. 29–30.
- ↑ Lee 2019, p. 30.
- ↑ Examiner 1874, p. 117.
- ↑ Graphic 1874, p. 215.
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph 1874, p. 8.
Works cited
- Freedgood, Elaine (2010). "What objects know: Circulation, omniscience and the comedy of dispossession in Victorian it-narratives". Journal of Victorian Culture . 15 (1): 83–100. doi:10.1080/13555501003607693.
- Lee, Maurice S. (2019). Overwhelmed: Literature, aesthetics, and the nineteenth-century information revolution. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691194219.
- Price, Leah (2009). "From The History of a Book to a 'history of the book'". Representations . 108 (1): 120–138. doi:10.1525/rep.2009.108.1.120.
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