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 was 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. This second edition contains a larger number of extracts covering issues of gender, material culture and bibliographical matters and a completely new section on the future ...
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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 was 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. This second edition contains a larger number of extracts covering issues of gender, material culture and bibliographical matters and a completely new section on the future of the book in the electronic age. The Book History Reader is an essential collection of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture: the development of the book, the move from spoken word to written texts, the commodification of books and authors and the power and profile of readers. Arranged in thematic sections and featuring a general introduction to the Reader as well as an introduction to each section, the editors illustrate how book history studies have developed a broad approach which incorporates social and cultural considerations governing the production, dissemination and reception of print and texts. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, book history studies is a rapidly growing subject which analyses books and print as cultural artefacts. This pioneering book will be a vital resource for all those involved in publishing studies, library studies and book history and also those studying English literature, cultural studies, sociology and history.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415226585
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/28/2002
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 6.80 (w) x 9.60 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

David Finkelstein is Research Professor of Media and Print Culture at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is author of The House of Blackwood: Author–Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era and co-author (with Alistair McCleery) of An Introduction to Book History.

Alistair McCleery is Professor of Literature and Culture at Napier University, Edinburgh, and Director of the Scottish Centre for the Book. He is co-editor of The Bibliotheck.

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Table of Contents

General Introduction: What is Book History?
Section 1
What is the History of Books
The Book as an Expressive Form
A New Model for the Study of the Book
The Socialization of Texts
Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader
The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book
The Filed of Cultural Production - Bourdieu From Orality to Literacy
Section 2
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World
The Practical Impact of Writing
The Body of the Book: The Media Transition from Manuscript to Print
Defining the Initial Shift: some features of print culture
The Indian ecumene: an indigenous public sphere
The Sociology of a Text: Orality, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand
Section 3
The Death of the Author
What is an Author
Literary Property Determined
Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture
Masterpiece Theatre: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation
The Victorian Novelists: Who Were They
The Magazine Market
Anyone of Everybody: Net Books and Howard's End
Section 4
Interaction between Reader and Text
Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England
Reading Practices
Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audience
The English Common Reader
Interpreting the Variorium
A Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
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