Paul Raphael Rooney is an early career researcher of Victorian print culture and popular fiction. He was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin and has also worked as a research assistant on the Irish Research Council Nineteenth-Century Trade Periodicals project at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

• Introduction: Audiences and Publisher’s Series 1. Railway Readers in the Post-1870 Reading Climate 2. "Food for the Mind," Consumer Choices, and the Railway Bookstall Environment 3. Second Generation Yellowbacks: Chatto & Windus’s Cheap Editions of Popular Novels (1877-1897) 4. Transnational Crime Writing and the Cheap Series Reprint: Routledge’s Sixpenny Detective Books (1887-1888) 5. "As necessary to the traveller as a rug in winter and a dust-coat in summer": Light Reading and Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library (1884-1898) Conclusion

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Paul Raphael Rooney is an early career researcher of Victorian print culture and popular fiction. He was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin and has also worked as a research assistant on the Irish Research Council Nineteenth-Century Trade Periodicals project at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

• Introduction: Audiences and Publisher’s Series 1. Railway Readers in the Post-1870 Reading Climate 2. "Food for the Mind," Consumer Choices, and the Railway Bookstall Environment 3. Second Generation Yellowbacks: Chatto & Windus’s Cheap Editions of Popular Novels (1877-1897) 4. Transnational Crime Writing and the Cheap Series Reprint: Routledge’s Sixpenny Detective Books (1887-1888) 5. "As necessary to the traveller as a rug in winter and a dust-coat in summer": Light Reading and Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library (1884-1898) Conclusion

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Paul Raphael Rooney is an early career researcher of Victorian print culture and popular fiction. He was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin and has also worked as a research assistant on the Irish Research Council Nineteenth-Century Trade Periodicals project at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

• Introduction: Audiences and Publisher’s Series 1. Railway Readers in the Post-1870 Reading Climate 2. "Food for the Mind," Consumer Choices, and the Railway Bookstall Environment 3. Second Generation Yellowbacks: Chatto & Windus’s Cheap Editions of Popular Novels (1877-1897) 4. Transnational Crime Writing and the Cheap Series Reprint: Routledge’s Sixpenny Detective Books (1887-1888) 5. "As necessary to the traveller as a rug in winter and a dust-coat in summer": Light Reading and Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library (1884-1898) Conclusion

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