British Literature and Print Culture (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles.

The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's The Seasons; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum.

Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University.

Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782041993
• Artikelnr.: 56940408

Autorenporträt

Sandro Jung

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Sandro Jung Tracing a Genealogy of Oroonoko Editions, 1688
2002
Laura Runge The Pilgrim's Progress, Print Culture and the Dissenting Tradition
Nathalie Colle
Bak Printing for the Author in the Long Eighteenth Century
Alan Downie Robert Burns's Interleaved Scots Musical Museum: A Case
Study in the Vagaries of Editors and Owners
Gerard Carruthers Packaging, Design and Colour: From Fine
Printed to Small
Format Editions of Thomson's The Seasons, 1793
1802
Sandro Jung Print Illustrations and the Cultural Materialism of Scott's Waverley Novels
Peter Garside Beyond Usefulness and Ephemerality: The Discursive Almanac, 1828
60
Brian Maidment The Last Years of a Victorian Monument: The Athenaeum after Maccoll
Marysa Demoor