Book-men, book clubs, and the Romantic literary sphere
Machine generated contents note: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements -- Introduction: Bookish Outliers -- PART I: URBAN ASSOCIATIONS 1. Unmooring the Literary Word -- 2. Typographical Consciousness and the Dissolution of Authorship -- 3. Printing Clubs and the Question of the Archive -- PART II: B...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements -- Introduction: Bookish Outliers -- PART I: URBAN ASSOCIATIONS 1. Unmooring the Literary Word -- 2. Typographical Consciousness and the Dissolution of Authorship -- 3. Printing Clubs and the Question of the Archive -- PART II: BEYOND THE METROPOLIS 4. On the Borders of the Reading Public -- 5. A Provincial Itinerary: Reading the Journals of John Marsh -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation in lateral directions not coincident with those of the literary sphere. Deploying a wide range of historical, archival and literary materials, the study combines the history and geography of books, cultural theory, and literary history to make visible a bookish array of alterative networks, genres, and locations obscured by the literary sphere in establishing its authority as arbiter of the modern book"-- "This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation in lateral directions not coincident with those of the literary sphere. Deploying a wide range of historical, archival and literary materials, the study combines the history and geography of books, cultural theory, and literary history to make visible a bookish array of alterative networks, genres, and locations obscured by the literary sphere in establishing its authority as arbiter of the modern book"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 192 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781137367594 978-1-137-36759-4 |