The book history reader /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. |
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| Description: | x, 390 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4561926 |
Table of Contents:
- General Introduction
- What is Book History
- 1. Section
- Introduction
- 2. What is the History of Books
- 3. The Book as an Expressive Form
- 4. A New Model for the Study of the Book
- 5. The Socialization of Texts
- 6. Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader
- 7. The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book
- 8. The Filed of Cultural Production
- From Orality to Literacy
- 1.
- 2. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World
- 3. The Practical Impact of Writing
- 4. The Body of the Book: The Media Transition from Manuscript to Print
- 5. Defining the Initial Shift; some features of print culture
- 6. The Indian ecumene; an indigenous public sphere
- 7. The Sociology of a Text: Orality, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand
- Commodifying Print: Books and Authors
- 1. Section
- Introduction
- 2. The Death of the Author
- 3. What is an Author
- 4. Literary Property Determined
- 5. Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture
- 6. Masterpiece Theatre: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation
- 7. The Victorian Novelists: Who Were They
- 8. The Magazine Market
- 9. Anyone of Everybody: Net Books and Howard's End
- Books and Readers
- 1. Section
- Introduction
- 2. Interaction between Reader and Text
- 3. Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England
- 4. Reading Practices
- 5. Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audience
- 6. The English Common Reader
- 7. Interpreting the Variorium
- 8. A Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
- Select Bibliography
