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De-Centring the History of Reading
Volume 2, From Totalitarian Reading to the New Media Turn
Av Michael Wögerbauer, Claire Madl m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1951 kr
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This volume is part of Decentring the History of Reading, a two-volume project that rethinks the history of reading from a Central European perspective. Focusing on overlooked sources and contexts, it examines how reading practices evolved under conditions of political upheaval, ideological …
Reading Across Worlds
Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference
Av J. Procter, B. Benwell
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships.
Reading and the First World War
Readers, Texts, Archives
Av Shafquat Towheed, Edmund King
Inbunden, 2015
1263 kr
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Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.
Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
Inbunden, 2014
1263 kr
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This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.
Book in Africa
Critical Debates
Av C. Davis, D. Johnson
Inbunden, 2015
1131 kr
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This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet …
Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
Av Jason McElligott, E. Patten
Inbunden, 2014
1263 kr
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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.
Consumable Texts in Contemporary India
Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology
Av S. Gupta
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.
Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page
Inbunden, 2015
598 kr
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The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in ways that we have hitherto largely ignored. …
Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement
Inbunden, 2016
1388 kr
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This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and librarians were the …
Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Victorian Reading Experience
Av Paul Raphael Rooney, Anna Gasperini
Inbunden, 2016
1388 kr
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This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands …
Reading Across Worlds
Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference
Av J. Procter, B. Benwell
Häftad, 2015
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships.
Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.
Book in Africa
Critical Debates
Av C. Davis, D. Johnson
Häftad, 2015
1263 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet …
Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
Av Jason McElligott, E. Patten
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.
Consumable Texts in Contemporary India
Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology
Av S. Gupta
Häftad, 2015
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.
Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Victorian Reading Experience
Av Paul Raphael Rooney, Anna Gasperini
Häftad, 2018
906 kr
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This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands …
Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing
Häftad, 2018
725 kr
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This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies the ways eighteenth-century English novels, plays and poems illustrated the changes which the growth …
Conrad's Reading
Space, Time, Networks
Häftad, 2018
1083 kr
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This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's many fictional representations …
Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture
Häftad, 2019
1202 kr
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There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of …
Books Across Borders
UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945–1951
Inbunden, 2019
964 kr
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Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities …
Books Across Borders
UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945–1951
Häftad, 2020
802 kr
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Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities …
Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2019
1023 kr
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This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely interpreted and …
Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2020
1023 kr
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This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely interpreted and …
Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
Av Lara Atkin, Sarah Comyn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
342 kr
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This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated …
Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture
Medium, Object, Metaphor
Av Heike Schaefer, Alexander Starre
Inbunden, 2019
1441 kr
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This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary …
Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture
Medium, Object, Metaphor
Av Heike Schaefer, Alexander Starre
Häftad, 2020
1441 kr
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This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary …
Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Inbunden, 2020
1023 kr
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This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than defeated by the political …
Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Häftad, 2021
1023 kr
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This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than defeated by the political …
Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel
Inbunden, 2020
1083 kr
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Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular …
Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel
Häftad, 2021
964 kr
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Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular …
