Bookish Histories : Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900 /

This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ferris, Ina (Editor), Keen, Paul (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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Summary:This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 283 pages)
ISBN:9780230244801
DOI:10.1057/9780230244801