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Bookish histories : books, literature, and commercial modernity, 1700-1900 / edited by Ina Ferris and Paul Keen.
Van Pelt Library Z1003.5.G7 B67 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Authorship.
- History.
- Book industries and trade.
- Great Britain.
- Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Authorship--History--18th century.
- Authorship--History--19th century.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 283 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- "This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new bookish literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : towards a bookish literary history / Ina Ferris and Paul Keen
- Wild bibliography : the rise and fall of book history in nineteenth-century Britain / Jon Klancher
- 'Uncommon animals' : making virtue of necessity in the age of authors / Paul Keen
- 'This enormous contagion of paper and print' : making literary history in the age of steam / William R. McKelvy
- Canons' clockwork : novels for everyday use / Deidre Lynch
- Book-love and the remaking of literary culture in the Romantic periodical / Ina Ferris
- The art of sharing : reading in the Romantic miscellany / Andrew Piper
- Getting the reading out of it : paper recycling in Mayhew's London / Leah Price
- Reading collections : the literary discourse of eighteenth-century libraries / Barbara M. Benedict
- Imagining Hegel : bookish forms and the Romantic synopticon / Michael Macovski
- 'The society of agreeable and worthy companions' : bookishness and manuscript culture after 1750 / Betty A. Schellenberg
- The practice and poetics of Curlism : print, obscenity, and the Merryland pamphlets in the career of Edmund Curll / Thomas Keymer
- Charlatanism and resentment in London's eighteenth-century literary marketplace / Simon During.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780230222311
- 0230222315
- OCLC:
- 458582181
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