Text and image in the city : manuscript, print and visual culture in urban space / edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinks, John, 1946-2024, editor.

Armstrong, Catherine, editor.

EBSCOhost.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 172 pages) : illustrations

monochrome

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The essays in this collection discuss how the city is 'textualized', and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They demonstrate how urban texts and images provoke reactions, in city-dwellers, visitors, civic and political actors, that, in turn, impact upon the shape of the city itself. Many kinds of urban texts - both manuscript and print - are discussed, including chapbooks, periodicals, poetry, graffiti and street-signs. The essays derive from a range of disciplines including book history, urban history cultural history, literary studies, art history and urban plarming, and explore some key questions in urban cultural history, including the relationship between text, image and the city; the function of the text or image within an urban environment; how urban texts and images have been used by those in positions of power and by those with little or no power; the ways in which urban identity and values have been reflected in 'street literature', graffiti and subversive texts and images; and whether theories of urban space can help us to understand the relationship between text, image and the city. As such, this volume will serve to enhance the reader's understanding of the nature of urbanism from a historical perspective, the creation and representation of urban space, and the processes of urbanization. It investigates how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images actively affect the shaping of the city itself - a mutually constitutive process whereby text, image and city create and sustain each other. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1. Cities in the margin

part 2. Textual topographies: urban space in manuscript, print and visual culture.

Text, image and the urban / John Hinks

Paris: text and image underground / Caroline Archer

Confusing the 'schema': flash notes and fraud in late Georgian England / Jack Mockford

London's little presses / Rathna Ramanathan

Manuscript book production and urban landscape: Bologna during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Rosa Smurra

Defining the Scottish chapbook: a description of the 'typical Scottish chapbook' / Daliah Bond

The urban context of eighteenth-century English provincial printing / John Hinks

Birmingham's graphic DNA: reading the city through signage, architectural letterforms and typographical landscape / Geraldine Marshall

A note on Sarah Kirby's prints: Drawing on history: the city in print.

Notes:

Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.

"A display of prints by Sarah Kirby, Leicester-based professional printmaker, formed an ideal backdrop to the workshop from which this volume sprang."

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 2, 2017).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Other Format:

Print version: Text and image in the city.

ISBN:

9781443879484

1443879487

Publisher Number:

99984034609

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.