Introduction : towards a bookish literary history / Ina Ferris and Paul Keen -- Wild bibliography : the rise and fall of book history in nineteenth-century Britain / Jon Klancher -- 'Uncommon animals' : making virtue of necessity in the age of authors / Paul Keen -- 'This enormous contagion of paper and print' : making literary history in the age of steam / William R. McKelvy -- Canons' clockwork : novels for everyday use / Deidre Lynch -- Book-love and the remaking of literary culture in the Romantic periodical / Ina Ferris -- The art of sharing : reading in the Romantic miscellany / Andrew Piper -- Getting the reading out of it : paper recycling in Mayhew's London / Leah Price -- Reading collections : the literary discourse of eighteenth-century libraries / Barbara M. Benedict -- Imagining Hegel : bookish forums and the Romantic synopticon / Michael Macovski -- 'The society of agreeable and witty companions' : bookishness and manuscript culture after 1750 / Betty A. Schellenberg -- The practice and poetics of Curlism : print, obscenity, and the Merryland pamphlets in the career of Edmund Curll / Thomas Keymer -- Charlatanism and resentment in London's eighteenth-century literary marketplace / Simon During
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"--Provided by publisher
