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Bookish histories : books, literature, and commercial modernity, 1700-1900 /

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"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 techno...

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Other Authors: Ferris, Ina, Keen, Paul, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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.
Geschichte 1700-1900.
Buch.
Buchhandel.
Gesellschaft.
Literatur.
Grossbritannien.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : towards a bookish literary history / Ina Ferris and Paul Keen
  • Wild bibliography : the rise and fall of book history in nineteenth-century Britain / Jon Klancher
  • 'Uncommon animals' : making virtue of necessity in the age of authors / Paul Keen
  • 'This enormous contagion of paper and print' : making literary history in the age of steam / William R. McKelvy
  • Canons' clockwork : novels for everyday use / Deidre Lynch
  • Book-love and the remaking of literary culture in the Romantic periodical / Ina Ferris
  • The art of sharing : reading in the Romantic miscellany / Andrew Piper
  • Getting the reading out of it : paper recycling in Mayhew's London / Leah Price
  • Reading collections : the literary discourse of eighteenth-century libraries / Barbara M. Benedict
  • Imagining Hegel : bookish forums and the Romantic synopticon / Michael Macovski
  • 'The society of agreeable and witty companions' : bookishness and manuscript culture after 1750 / Betty A. Schellenberg
  • The practice and poetics of Curlism : print, obscenity, and the Merryland pamphlets in the career of Edmund Curll / Thomas Keymer
  • Charlatanism and resentment in London's eighteenth-century literary marketplace / Simon During.