UID:
almafu_9960119937102883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-199-0
Series Statement:
Essays and studies 2013, v. 66
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction /
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Sandro Jung --
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The pilgrim's progress, print culture and the dissenting tradition /
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Printing for the author in the long eighteenth century /
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Robert Burn's interleaved Scots Musical Museum : a case study in the vagaries of editors and owners /
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Packaging, design and colour : from fine-printed to small-format editions of Thomson's The seasons, 1793-1802 /
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Print illustrations and the cultural materialism of Scott's Waverly novels /
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Beyond usefulness and ephemerality : the discursive almanac, 1828-1860 /
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The last years of a Victorian monument : the Athenaum after Maccoll /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-343-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781782041993
