Literary cultures and the material book / edited by Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eliot, Simon, editor.

Nash, Andrew, 1972- editor.

Willison, Ian, editor.

Series:

British Library studies in the history of the book.

British Library studies in the history of the book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature publishing.

Printing.

Books.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Library, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the technological hype that dominated the 1990s eventually collided with reality and subsided, one of the period s most tenacious ideas has not: the conviction that the future of books is in jeopardy. Yet the promise or peril of widespread textual availability on the Internet, along with the economic pressures of globalization, has had the unexpected beneficial effect of sparking interest in the relatively young discipline of the history of the book. The essays collected in "Literary Cultures and the Material Book" cast a wide net from China and Russia to South America and New Zealand to investigate the vital relationship between actual, physical books and the study of literary cultures. How books are created, sold, and experienced as material objects is a fascinating and little understood element of literary culture, and the contributors to this volume build on the pioneering work of earlier scholars to bring the discipline into the present. As books enter uncharted and uncertain territory in the twenty-first century, understanding their impact on our globalized culture is more important than ever."

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

SOME MATERIAL FACTORS IN LITERARY CULTURE

A THOUSAND YEARS OF PRINTED NARRATIVE IN CHINA

MARKETING THE TALE OF GENJI IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN

LITERARY CULTURE AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE IN PRECOLONIAL INDIA

THE SHAHNAMA AND THE PERSIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK'

TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND LITERARY CULTURE IN AFRICA

EPIC, DIFFUSION AND IDENTITY

CAROLINGIAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF THE LITERARY CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

THE DIFFUSION OF LITERATURE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY

FROM LITERARY ALMANACS TO 'THICK JOURNALS'

LITERARY CONSEQUENCES OF THE PERIPHERAL NATURE OF SPANISH PRINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

THE CONFLICTS OF THE CANON

THE BOOK AND NATURALISM IN SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA

FRIEDRICH NICOLAI

THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND BOOK TRADE IN EUROPE

FRANCE BETWEEN LITERARY CULTURE AND MASS CULTURE: SEVENTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES

PUBLISHING AND LITERATURE IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD

JACQUES HEBERT

CREATING AN ENGLISH LITERARY CANON, 1679-1720

LITERARY CULTURE AND LITERARY PUBLISHING IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN

'THE ELIXIR OF LIFE'

THE TRADITION OF A. W. POLLARDAND THE WORLD OF LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP

'IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE, WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK?'

FROM METHODIST LITERARY CULTURE TO CANADIAN LITERARY CULTURE

'THE CENTENNIAL RACKET'

'HEAVEN FORBID THAT I SHOULD THINK OF TREATING WITH AN ENGLISH PUBLISHER'

PERSPECTIVES FOR AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2015).

ISBN:

0-7123-6403-X

OCLC:

925450329