Consumerism and Prestige

The Materiality of Literature in the Modern Age
Herausgeber: Enns, Anthony; Metz, Bernhard

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781839982767
• ISBN-10: 1839982764
• Artikelnr.: 62229575

Autorenporträt

Anthony Enns is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. Bernhard Metz is an associate director of the SNF-funded project "Online-Edition der Rezensionen und Briefe Albrecht von Hallers" at the University of Bern.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Consumerism and Prestige;
Section One. MATERIAL FORMS AND LITERARYPUBLISHING, Chapter 1. Devotion and
Consumption: Ludwig Tieck, Literary Pocketbooks, and the Novella Craze,
Christoph Rauen; Chapter 2. Packaging Process: Peter Handke's Writing for
Sale; 3 Jacob Haubenreich, Chapter 3. Contrasts in the Brazilian Book
Market in the Early Twenty-First Century , Laura Rivas Gagliardi; Section
Two. MATERIAL DISTINCTIONS INPOPULAR FICTION; Chapter 4. Only the "Outward
Appearance" of a Harem? , eading Memoirs of an Arabian Princess as a
Material Text, Kate Roy; Chapter 5 Hidden Codes of Love: The Materiality of
the Category Romance Novel, An Goris; Chapter 6. Stephen King's The Girl
Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Rhetorical Reading of the Schneekluth Edition Dust
Jackets, Thorsten Bothe; Section Three. CULTURAL PRESTIGE ANDGRAPHIC
NARRATIVES; Chapter 7. The Printing of Phantasms: The Illustrations of
Nineteenth-Century Serialized Novels and their Appropriation in Max Ernst's
Collage Novel Une semaine de bonté, Philipp Venghaus; Chapter 8. From Penny
Dreadful to Graphic Novel: Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Genealogy
of Comics in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Jeff Thoss; Chapter 9.
Comic Books versus Graphic Novels: Commodity Forms and Cultural Prestige,
Anthony Enns; Section Four. ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ANDREADING PRACTICES;
Chapter 10. The Book and the E-Book: Footnotes, Margins, and Typography in
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Bernhard Metz; Chapter 11. E-Book
Collections as an Opportunity to Recover Unpublished or Forgotten Texts,
Laura Hatry; Chapter 12. How Much Does the Symbolic Capital of Books Cost?
Operationalizing the Prestige of Books in the Digital Age, Pasqualina
Sorrentino and Massimo Salgaro; Index