The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice [electronic resource] /
McElligott, Jason.author.
Patten, E.editor.
This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 The Perils of Print Culture: An Introduction; 2 The Practice of Book and Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings; 3 'Pretious treasures made cheap'? The Real Cost of Reading Roman History in Early Modern England; 4 Early Printed Liturgical Books and the Modern Resources That Describe Them: The Case of the Hereford Breviary, 1505; 5 'Lacking Ware, withal': Finding Sir James Ware among the Many Incarnations of his Histories
6 Balancing Theoretical Models and Local Studies: The Case of William St Clair and Copyright in Ireland7 The Impact of Print in Ireland, 1680-1800: Problems and Perils; 8 Signs of the Times? Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-Century Secret Histories; 9 Dangerous Detours: The Perils of Victorian Periodicals in the Digitised Age; 10 Nineteenth-Century Print on the Move: A Perilous Study of Translocal Migration and Print Skills Transfer; 11 The Problem with Libraries: The Case of Thomas Marshall's Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera
12 The 'Lesser' Dürer? Text and Image in Early Modern Broadsheets13 'Fair Forms' and 'Withered Leaves': The Rose Bud and the Peculiarities of Periodical Print; 14 'Print Culture' and the Perils of Practice; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Civilization—History.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural History.