Title: Bookish histories
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.
Subjects: Books and reading, Authorship, History, Literature and society, Book industries and trade
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century