Machine generated contents note: ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Towards a Bookish Literary History--I.Ferris &--P.KeenPART I: RECONFIGURING LITERARY HISTORYWild Bibliography: The Rise and Fall Book History in Nineteenth-Century Britain--J.Klancher'Uncommon Animals': Making Virtue of Necessity in the Age of Authors; P.KeenMaking Literary History in the Age of Steam--W.McKelvyPART II: BOOKS IN THE EVERYDAYCanons' Clockwork: Novels for Everyday Use--D.LynchBook-Love and the Remaking of Literary Culture in the Romantic Periodical--I.FerrisThe Art of Sharing: Reading in the Romantic Miscellany--A.PiperGetting the Reading Out of London Labor; L.PricePART III: REMAPPING THE LITERARY FIELDReading Collections: The Literary Discourse of Eighteenth-Century Libraries--B.M.BenedictImagining Hegel: Bookish Form and the Romantic Synopticon--M.Macovski'The Society of Agreeable and Worthy Companions': Bookishness and Manuscript Culture after 1750--B.A.SchellenbergThe Practice and Poetics of Curlism: Print, Obscenity, and the Merryland Pamphlets in the Career of Edmund Curll--T.KeymerCharlatanism and Resentment in Londons Mid-Eighteenth Century Literary Marketplace--S.DuringIndex
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"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
