Books for idle hours: nineteenth-century publishing and the rise of summer reading

Nineteenth-century travel, tourism, and summer leisure

'As welcome and grateful as the girls in muslin': nineteenth-century periodicals and the marketing of summer reading

Society and saturnalia: the cultural work of the American summer novel

'Hurrying. . . forward for the summer trade': William Dean Howells's dialogue with the popular summer novel

'This is why I do not board': the role of place and space in Victorian summer reading

Chautauqua assemblies, summer schools, and Catholic Reading circles: the case for serious summer reading

Changing times, persistent practices.