The book history reader

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"Since the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, books and print culture have been central to the shaping of culture and society. 'The Book History Reader' is the first comprehensive volume to bring together a variety of work - much of which is now out of print or impossible to access - examining key aspects of book history. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, book history studies is a rapidly growing subje...

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ISBN:

9780415359481

Edition:

Second edition

Description:

xiii, 561 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 526-544) and index

Contents:

What is the history of books? / Robert Darnton
Bibliography, pure bibliography, and literary studies / Fredson Bowers
The book as an expressive form / D.F. McKenzie
A new model for the study of the book / Thomas Adams and Nicolas Barker
The socialization of texts / Jerome McGann
Early modern print culture : assessing the models / Harold Love
Labourers and voyagers : from the text to the reader / Pierre Bourdieu
The field of cultural production / Pierre Bourdieu
Text, script, and media : new observations on scribal activity in the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel
Orality and literacy : writing restructures consciousness / Walter Ong
Manuscripts / Marcel Thomas
The practical impact of writing / Roger Chartier
The body of the book : the media transition from manuscript to print / Jan-Dirk Mller
The Indian ecumene : an indigenous public sphere / C.A. Bayly
The sociology of a text : orality, literacy, and print in early New Zealand / D.F. McKenzie
Defining the initial shift : some features of print culture / Elisabeth Eisenstein
The book of nature and the nature of the book / Adrian Johns
The death of the author / Roland Barthes
What is an author? / Michel Foucault
Oral religio-political activism and textual production / Paula McDowell
Literary property determined / Mark Rose
Authors, publishers, and the making of literary culture / John Brewer
Cultures of the commonplace / Leah Price
Masterpiece theater : the politics of Hawthorne's literary reputation / Jane Tompkins
The Victorian novelists : who were they? / John Sutherland
When is a book not a book? / Robert L. Patten
The magazine market / James L.W. West III
Toward international cooperation : the literary editing of H.D. and Bryher / Jayne Marek
Interaction between text and reader / Wolfgang Iser
Literacy instruction and gender in colonial New England / F. Jennifer Monaghan
Reading practices / Kate Flint
Rereading the English common reader : a preface to a history of audiences / Jonathan Rose
The English common reader : from Caxton to the eighteenth century / Richard Altick
Interpreting the variorum / Stanley Fish
Forgotten readers : recovering the lost history of African American literary societies / Elizabeth McHenry
A feeling for books : the Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire / Janice Radway
The digital subject and cultural theory / Mark Poster
Material matters : the past and futurology of the book / Paul Duguid
Farewell to the information age / Geoffrey Nunberg

LCCN:

2006009669

Control Number:

2607666

Other Authors:

Finkelstein, David, 1964-
McCleery, Alistair

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