Thinking outside the book / Augusta Rohrbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rohrbach, Augusta, 1961- author.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Women authors, American--19th century--Political and social views.

Women authors, American.

Authorship--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Authorship.

Authors and publishers--United States--History--19th century.

Authors and publishers.

Authorship--Social aspects.

History.

Political and social views.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Authors and readers--United States--History--19th century.

Authors and readers.

Transmission of texts.

Books--History.

Books.

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

xiii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]

Summary:

In Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely cohort of nineteenth-century women writers-Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnut-to consider the publishing culture of their period from the perspective of our current digital age, bringing together scholarly concepts from both print culture and new media studies. More than a literary history, this book takes up theories of recovery, literacy, authorship, narrative, the book, and new media in connection with race, gender, class, and region. Book jacket.

Contents:

(R)emediation (literacy rethought)

Memory (authorship revisited)

History (publication redefined)

Testimony (the edition reimagined)

Loss (authorship regained)

Epilogue. no text left behind (a theory of recovery).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625341259

1625341253

9781625341266

1625341261

OCLC:

880860357