David Finkelstein (ed.)

The Book History Reader

Herausgeber: Mccleery, Alistair; Finkelstein, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Including more extracts than before and a brand new section on the future of the book in the digital age, this second edition has been updated and expanded to create the essential collection of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 173mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1006g
• ISBN-13: 9780415359481
• ISBN-10: 0415359481
• Artikelnr.: 22524135

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements 1 David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery
Introduction PART ONE What is book history? editors' introduction 2 Robert
Darnton what is the history of books? 3 Fredson Bowers Bibliography, Pure
Bibliography and Literary Studies 4 D. F. McKenzie the book as an
expressive form 5 Thomas R. Adams and Nicolas Barker A new mdel for the
study of the book 6 Jerome McGann the socialization of texts 7 Harold Love
Early modern print culture: assessing the models 8 Roger Chartier Labourers
and Voyagers: from the text to the reader 9 Pierre Bourdieu the field of
cultural production PART TWO The impact of print editors' introduction 10
Scott B. Noegel Text, Script, and Media: New Observations on Scribal
Activity in the Ancient Near East 11 Walter Ong orality and literacy:
writing restructures consciousness 12 Marcel Thomas Manuscript 13 Roger
Chartier the practical impact of writing 14 Jan-Dirk Müller the body of the
book: the media transition from manuscript to print 15 C.A. Bayly The
Indian ecumene: an indigenous public sphere 16 D. F. McKenzie the sociology
of a text: orality, literacy and print in early new zealand 17 Elizabeth
Eisenstein defining the initial shift: some features of print culture 18
Adrian Johns the book of nature and the nature of the book PART THREE Texts
and authors editors' introduction 19 Roland Barthes the death of the author
20 Michel Foucault what is an author? 21 Paula McDowell Oral
Religio-Political Activism and Textual Production 22 Mark Rose literary
property determined 23 John Brewer authors, publishers and the making of
literary culture 24 Leah Price Cultures of the Commonplace 25 Jane Tompkins
masterpiece theater: the politics of hawthorne's literary reputation 26
John Sutherland the victorian novelists: who were they? 27 Robert L. Patten
When is a book not a book? 28 James L.W. West III the magazine market 29
Jayne Marek Toward International Cooperation: The Literary Editing of H.D.
and Bryher PART FOUR Texts and readers editors' introduction 30 Wolfgang
Iser interaction between text and reader 31 E. Jennifer Monaghan literacy
instruction and gender in colonial new england 32 Kate Flint reading
practices 33 Jonathan Rose rereading the english common reader: a preface
to a history of audiences 34 Richard Altick the english common reader: from
caxton to the eighteenth century 35 Stanley Fish interpreting the variorum
36 Elizabeth McHenry Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of
African American Literary Societies 37 Janice Radway a feeling for books:
the book-of-the-month club, literarytaste and middle-class desire PART FIVE
The future of the book Editors' Introduction 38 Mark Poster The Digital
Subject and Cultural Theory 39 Paul Duguid Material matters: the Past and
futurology of the Book 40 Geoffrey Nunberg Farewell to the Information Age
Bibliography Index,