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020    $a 9780192856883
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100 1  $a Hayes, Kevin J., $e author.
245 14 $a The future of the book : $b images of reading in the American utopian novel / $c Kevin J. Hayes.
250    $a First edition.
264  1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2022.
300    $a xi, 232 pages ; $c 22 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-225) and index.
505 0  $a Introduction -- The residential library -- The public library -- The idea of authorship -- The newspaper -- The printed page and the written word -- Conclusion.
520    $a "The Future of the Book: Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel looks at how turn-of-the-century utopian novelists imagined what the book would be like in the ideal future. This works examines many different aspects of book culture. One chapter looks at the utopian residential library, both its contents and its personal and social functions. In the ideal future, everyone has books in their home. Another chapter discusses the public library in utopia. Many of the innovations the utopian novelists imagined correct problems that real public libraries faced in late nineteenth-century America. In utopia, everyone knows how to use the public library. A third chapter shifts the discussion of books and reading from the place of consumption to the place of production, looking at the role of the author in utopia. This chapter also attempts to answer a vexing question: Can an ideal world produce great literature? The utopian novelists said yes, but the novels they imagined in the future make their conclusions more circumspect. A parallel chapter studies what the utopian newspaper would be like. Some utopian novelists projected alternative news media, foreseeing technology that anticipated television and the internet. The final chapter examines what printed books would look like in the ideal future, looking at graphic design, universal languages, and methods to assure that the books would be printed without censorship or editorial intrusion."--Provided by publisher.
650  0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Utopias in literature.
650  0 $a Books and reading $z United States $x History $y 19th century.
650  0 $a Libraries in literature.
650  0 $a Press and journalism in literature.
650  6 $a Roman américain $y 19e siècle $x Histoire et critique.
650  6 $a Utopies dans la littérature.
650  6 $a Bibliothèques dans la littérature.
650  6 $a Presse dans la littérature.
650  7 $a utopian literature. $2 aat
650  7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048
650  7 $a Books and reading. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836454
650  7 $a Utopias in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01163372
651  7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155
648  7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast
655  7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635
655  7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628
655  7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft
776 08 $i Online version: $a Hayes, Kevin J. $t Future of the book. $b First edition. $d Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 $z 9780191947476 $w (OCoLC)1306244894
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