The Book History Reader
by David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery (Editor)
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The Book History Readerbrings together a rich variety of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture, much of which is otherwise inaccessible. It looks at the development of the book, the move from spoken word to written texts, the commodification of books and authors, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in the electronic age. The Readeris arranged in thematic sections and features a general introduction as well as an introduction show more to each section. This pioneering book is a valuable resource for all those involved in book publishing studies and book history as well as students of English literature, cultural studies, sociology and history. Essays by: Thomas Adams and Nicholas Barker, Richard Altick, Roland Barthes, C.A. Bayly, Pierre Bourdieu, John Brewer, Michel de Certeau, Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Lucien Febrve and Henri-Jean Martin, N.N. Feltes, Kate Flint, Stanley Fish, Michel Foucault, Wolfgang Iser, Adrian Johns, Jerome McGann, Don McKenzie, Jennifer E. Monaghan, Jan Dirk Muller, Walter Ong, Robert Patten, Janice Radway, Jonathan Rose, Mark Rose, John Sutherland, Jane Tompkins, James L.W. West III show lessTags
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I love book history/bibliography, and this reader has all the major essays. After studying this stuff for years, I always come back to the essays in this reader. It's a fantastic compilation.
The text is a scholarly and philosophical work that provides essays on the following themes: “What is a Book?” “From Orality to Literacy,” “Commodifying Print: Books and Authors,” and “Books and Readers.”
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David Finkelstein is Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh. He is editor of An Index to Blackwood's Magazine, 1901-1980 (1995) and co-editor of four recent books, including The Book History Reader (2001) and Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities (2000). He has show more spent the last few years investigating the Blackwood papers for the National Library of Scotland, which has enabled him to exploit business documents ignored by or unknown to previous researchers show less
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 002 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Books (Science and history of the book)
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- Z4 .B647 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Books (General). Writing. Paleography History of books and bookmaking
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