British Literature and Print Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Literature and Print Culture write by Sandro Jung. This book was released on 2013. British Literature and Print Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 write by Richard Menke. This book was released on 2019-10-17. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.
Culture Wars in British Literature
Culture Wars in British Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture Wars in British Literature write by Tracy J. Prince. This book was released on 2012-09-21. Culture Wars in British Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The past century's culture wars that Britain has been consumed by, but that few North Americans seem aware of, have resulted in revised notions of Britishness and British literature. Yet literary anthologies remain anchored to an archaic Anglo-English interpretation of British literature. Conflicts have been played out over specific national vs. British identity (some residents prefer to describe themselves as being from Scotland, England, Wales, or Northern Ireland instead of Britain), in debates over immigration, race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and in arguments over British literature. These debates are strikingly detailed in such chapters as: "The Difficulty Defining 'Black British'," "British Jewish Writers" and "Xenophobia and the Booker Prize." Connections are also drawn between civil rights movements in the U.S. and UK. This generalist cultural study is a lively read and a fascinating glimpse into Britain's changing identity as reflected in 20th and 21st century British literature.
Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s
Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s write by Alexis Easley. This book was released on 2019. Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.
The Book in Society
The Book in Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book in Society write by Solveig Robinson. This book was released on 2013-11-22. The Book in Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. Books can inform, entertain, inspire, irritate, liberate, or challenge readers, and their forms can be tangible and traditional, like a printed, casebound volume, or virtual and transitory, like a screen-page of a cell-phone novel. Written in clear, non-specialist prose, The Book in Society first provides an overview of the rise of the book and of the modern publishing and bookselling industries. It explores the evolution of written texts from early forms to contemporary formats, the interrelationship between literacy and technology, and the prospects for the book in the twenty-first century. The second half of the book is based on historian Robert Darnton’s concept of a book publishing “communication circuit.” It examines how books migrate from the minds of authors to the minds of readers, exploring such topics as the rise of the modern notion of the author, the role of states and others in promoting or restricting the circulation of books, various modes of reproducing and circulating texts, and how readers’ responses help shape the form and content of the books available to them. Feature boxes highlighting key texts, individuals, and developments in the history of the book, carefully selected illustrations, and a glossary all help bring the history of the book to life.
