Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Literary cultures and the material book / edited by Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison
Published London : The British Library, 2007

Copies

Description 1 online resource (452 pages) : illustrations
Contents ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SOME MATERIAL FACTORS IN LITERARY CULTURE; A THOUSAND YEARS OF PRINTED NARRATIVE IN CHINA; MARKETING THE TALE OF GENJI IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN; LITERARY CULTURE AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE IN PRECOLONIAL INDIA; THE SHAHNAMA AND THE PERSIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK'; TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND LITERARY CULTURE IN AFRICA; EPIC, DIFFUSION AND IDENTITY; CAROLINGIAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF THE LITERARY CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES; THE DIFFUSION OF LITERATURE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
FROM LITERARY ALMANACS TO 'THICK JOURNALS'LITERARY CONSEQUENCES OF THE PERIPHERAL NATURE OF SPANISH PRINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; THE CONFLICTS OF THE CANON; THE BOOK AND NATURALISM IN SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA; FRIEDRICH NICOLAI; THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND BOOK TRADE IN EUROPE; FRANCE BETWEEN LITERARY CULTURE AND MASS CULTURE: SEVENTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES; PUBLISHING AND LITERATURE IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD; JACQUES HEBERT; CREATING AN ENGLISH LITERARY CANON, 1679-1720; LITERARY CULTURE AND LITERARY PUBLISHING IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN; 'THE ELIXIR OF LIFE'
THE TRADITION OF A.W. POLLARDAND THE WORLD OF LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP'IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE, WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK?'; FROM METHODIST LITERARY CULTURE TO CANADIAN LITERARY CULTURE; 'THE CENTENNIAL RACKET'; 'HEAVEN FORBID THAT I SHOULD THINK OF TREATING WITH AN ENGLISH PUBLISHER'; PERSPECTIVES FOR AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK; INDEX
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2015)
Subject Literature publishing.
Printing.
Books.
Books and reading.
Books
books.
Books.
Books and reading.
Literature publishing.
Printing.
Form Electronic book
Author Eliot, Simon, editor
Nash, Andrew, editor
Willison, Ian, editor
ISBN 9780712364034
071236403X