Book practices & textual itineraries
Subtitle: from text(s) to book(s) : studies in production and editorial processes
By: general editors, Nathalie Collé, Monica Latham & David Ten Eyck, équipe d'accueil IDEA (Interdisciplinarité dans les études anglophones, EA 2338, université de Lorraine)
Contributors: Équipe d'accueil IDEA (Nancy-Université)
Series: Collection Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone -- 4; Collection Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone -- 4.
Publisher: PUN-Éditions universitaires de Lorraine
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Nancy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9782814302303
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Editing
Other titles: Book practices and textual itineraries
Description: "Working outward from the path traced by Hubert Nyssen in Du texte au livre, les avatars du sens, the essays collected in this volume examine the process by which texts are embodied in forms that give them the appearance of completion and fmality. The passage from fluid, provisional textual states to die apparent solidity of the published book is explored in die light of recent developments in textual scholarship. By engaging with archivai records, with questions specific to periodical and serial publications and author-publisher interactions, the contributors to this volume call into question certain widely held assumptions about the processes through which texts become books. They present the relation between text and book as ultimately less straightforward than the one proposed by Nyssen. Instead, they seek to transcend the linear progress from text to book, establishing more dynamic connections between the multiple material states in which a given work or document has exited over the course of its liston,."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From Text to Book in Nineteenth-Century America: Some Reflections on Texts and Paratexts, Authors and Publishers --; title: Disciplining the Author: A Look at the Author-Printer Relationship in America --; title: Toward a History of Copyright for Periodical Writings: Examples from Nineteenth-Century America --; title: How Serialisation Changed the Meanings of Encyclopaedias --; title: From Letters to Manuscripts to Books: The Journey of Cambridge University Library MS.Ee.3.56 --; title: Cicero's Letters to Atticus: From Private Correspondence to History Textbook --; title: Publishing Archives: Making Archivai Books from Archivai Texts --; title: A Medieval Manuscript in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Regarding Cambridge MS.Ee.3.59 --; title: From Ideas to Books: The Editorial Writing of Michael Drayton's Sonnet Sequences --; title: " L'Histoire véritable " du Fils naturel : retour sur une édition originale qui en dit long.