Readings on audience and textual materiality / edited by Graham Allen, Carrie Griffin and Mary O'Connell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allen, Graham, 1963- editor.

Griffin, Carrie, editor.

O'Connell, Mary (Researcher in English), editor.

Series:

History of the book (London, England) ; no. 8.

History of the book ; no. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Books--Format--Psychological aspects.

Books.

Books--Format--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Readings on Audience & Textual Materiality

Place of Publication:

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The twelve essays in this edited collection variously examine ways in which the material text helps to direct the reader and shape the experience of the audience. The essays consider texts from later medieval England through to the twenty-first century. Central to the theme of the book is the role of materiality: how the physical object - book, manuscript, libretto - affects the experience of the person reading it. <br> Essays discuss early readers of manuscripts, digital technology, materiality and meaning, and book and textual cultures. Specific case-studies focus on the authorship of Frankenstein, the impact of the 1969 Penguin edition of <i>Ulysses</i>, the creation of P B Shelley's reading public and the physical incarnations of W B Yeats' poetry.

Contents:

Introduction

The memory and impact of oral performance : shaping the understanding of late medieval readers / John J. Thompson

Print, miscellaneity and the reader in Robert Herrick's Hesperides / Ruth Connolly

Searching for spectators : from Istoria to history painting / Liam Lenihan

Returning to the text of Frankenstein / Graham Allen

'Casualty', Mrs Shelley and seditious libel : cleansing Britain's most corrupt poet of error / Nora Crook

Writing textual materiality : Charles Clark, his books and his bookplate poem / Carrie Griffin and Mary O'Connell

Charles Dickens's readers and the material circulation of the text / Robert McParland

Victorian pantomime libretti and the reading audience / Jill A. Sullivan

Material modernism and Yeats / Alex Davis

Changing audiences : the case of the Penguin Ulysses / Alistair McCleery

The sound of literature : secondary school teaching on reading aloud and silent reading, 1880-1940 / Ton van Kalmthout

Intermediality : experiencing the virtual text / Órla Murphy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-65563-2

1-317-32265-7

1-317-32266-5

1-283-09909-8

9786613099099

1-84893-160-3

9781315655635

OCLC:

723945803