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British literature and print culture /

"The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelati...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: English Association
Other Authors: Jung, Sandro (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2013.
Series:Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ; v. 66.
Subjects:
Books > Great Britain > History.
Books and reading > Great Britain > History.
Literature publishing > Great Britain > History.
Printing > Great Britain > History.
English literature > Criticism, Textual.
Books > History > Great Britain.
Printing > History > Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • Tracing a genealogy of Oroonoko editions / Laura L. Runge
  • The pilgrim's progress, print culture and the dissenting tradition / Nathalie CollĂ©-Bak
  • Printing for the author in the long eighteenth century / J.A. Downie
  • Robert Burns's interleaved Scots Musical Museum : a case study in the vagaries of editors and owners / Gerard Carruthers
  • Packaging, design and colour : from fine-printed to small-format editions of Thomson's The seasons, 1793-1802 / Sandro Jung
  • Print illustrations and the cultural materialism of Scott's Waverley novels / Peter Garside
  • Beyond usefulness and ephemerality : the discursive almanac, 1828-1860 / Brian Maidment
  • The last years of a Victorian monument : the Athenaum after Maccoll / Marysa Demoor.