British literature and print culture / edited by Sandro Jung for the English Association.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jung, Sandro, editor.

English Association.

Series:

Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ; n.s., v.66.

Essays and studies ; 2013

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Great Britain--History.

Books.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History.

Books and reading.

Printing--Great Britain--History.

Printing.

History.

Great Britain.

English literature--Criticism, Textual.

English literature.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2013.

Summary:

The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers and designers. They investigate how these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's The Seasons; the 'printing for the author' practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Sandro Jung

Tracing a genealogy of Oroonoko editions / Laura L. Runge

The Pilgrim's Progress, print culture and the Dissenting tradition / Nathalie Collé-Bak

Printing for the author in the long eighteenth century / J. A. Downie

Robert Burn's interleaved Scots Musical Museum: a case study in the vagaries of editors and owners / Gerard Carruthers

Packaging, design and colour: from fine-printed to small-format editions of Thomson's The Seasons, 1793-1802 / Sandro Jung

Print illustrations and the cultural materialism of Scott's Waverly novels / Peter Garside

Beyond usefulness and ephemerality: the discursive almanac, 1828-1860 / Brian Maidment

The last years of a Victorian monument: the Athenaeum after Maccoll / Marysa Demoor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781843843436

1843843439

OCLC:

829738484