Recoding World Literature : libraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with books / B. Venkat Mani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mani, B. Venkat, author.

Contributor:

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Germany.

Books and reading.

Literature in libraries.

Germany.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[10], 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

Contents:

Prologue

Introduction: World Literature as a Pact with Books

1. Of Masters and Masterpieces: An Empire of Books, a Mythic European Library

2. Half Epic, Half Drastic: From a Parliament of Letters to a National Library

3. The Shadow of Empty Shelves: Two World Wars and the Rise and Fall of World Literature

4. Windows on the Berlin Wall: Unfinished Histories of World Literature in a Divided Germany

5. Libraries without Walls? World Literature in a Digital Century

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.

Local Notes:

PN3331.M25 2017 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2019 has underlines and marginal marks.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780823273409

0823273407

9780823273416

0823273415

OCLC:

947147158

Online:

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