Bookish Histories [electronic resource] : Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900 /
Ferris, I.editor.
Keen, P.editor.
This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Towards a Bookish Literary History; Part I: Reconfiguring Literary History; Part II: Books in the Everyday; Part III: Remapping the Literary Field; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.
Civilization-History.
Culture.
Literature.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Ethnology.
Cultural History.
Sociology of Culture.
Literature, general.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.