Bookish Histories
Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900
Editors: Ferris, I., Keen, P. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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 technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.
- About the authors
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BARBARA M. BENEDICT, Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, USA SIMON DURING, Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, USA THOMAS KEYMER, Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada DEIDRE LYNCH, Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada JON KLANCHER, Associate Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA MICHAEL MACOVSKI, Associate Professor at Georgetown University, USA WILLIAM R. MCKELVY, Associate Professor of English at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA ANDREW PIPER, Assistant Professor of German Studies at McGill University, Canada LEAH PRICE, Professor of English at Harvard University, USA BETTY A. SCHELLENBERG, Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Towards a Bookish Literary History
Pages 1-15
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Wild Bibliography: The Rise and Fall of Book History in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Pages 19-40
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‘Uncommon Animals’: Making Virtue of Necessity in the Age of Authors
Pages 41-60
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‘This Enormous Contagion of Paper and Print’: Making Literary History in the Age of Steam
Pages 61-84
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Canons’ Clockwork: Novels for Everyday Use
Pages 87-110
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Bookish Histories
- Book Subtitle
- Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900
- Editors
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- I. Ferris
- P. Keen
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-24480-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230244801
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-22231-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 283
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