Bookish histories
Subtitle: books, literature, and commercial modernity, 1700-1900
By: edited by Ina Ferris, Paul Keen.
Contributors: Ferris, Ina.; Keen, Paul, 1963-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230222311
Subjects: Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Authorship -- History -- 18th century; Authorship -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Towards a Bookish Literary History; title: I.Ferris &amp; title: P.KeenPART I: RECONFIGURING LITERARY HISTORYWild Bibliography: The Rise and Fall Book History in Nineteenth-Century Britain; title: J.Klancher'Uncommon Animals': Making Virtue of Necessity in the Age of Authors; P.KeenMaking Literary History in the Age of Steam; title: W.McKelvyPART II: BOOKS IN THE EVERYDAYCanons' Clockwork: Novels for Everyday Use; title: D.LynchBook-Love and the Remaking of Literary Culture in the Romantic Periodical; title: I.FerrisThe Art of Sharing: Reading in the Romantic Miscellany; title: A.PiperGetting the Reading Out of London Labor; L.PricePART III: REMAPPING THE LITERARY FIELDReading Collections: The Literary Discourse of Eighteenth-Century Libraries; title: B.M.BenedictImagining Hegel: Bookish Form and the Romantic Synopticon; title: M.Macovski'The Society of Agreeable and Worthy Companions': Bookishness and Manuscript Culture after 1750; title: B.A.SchellenbergThe Practice and Poetics of Curlism: Print, Obscenity, and the Merryland Pamphlets in the Career of Edmund Curll; title: T.KeymerCharlatanism and Resentment in Londons Mid-Eighteenth Century Literary Marketplace; title: S.DuringIndex.