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Author:

Ferris, Ina, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83060056

Title:

Book-men, book clubs, and the romantic literary sphere / Ina Ferris.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Bibliography--Great Britain--History--History--18th century.
Printing--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Printing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Romanticism--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Romanticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
Bibliography--Societies, etc.
Books and reading.
Intellectual life.
Printing.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
Böcker och läsning--historia.
Boktryckerihistoria.
Romantiken--historia.
Storbritannien.
1700 - 1899
1700-talet
1800-talet
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-186) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Bookish Outliers -- PART I: URBAN ASSOCIATIONS 1. Unmooring the Literary Word -- 2. Typographical Consciousness and the Dissolution of Authorship -- 3. Printing Clubs and the Question of the Archive -- PART II: BEYOND THE METROPOLIS 4. On the Borders of the Reading Public -- 5. A Provincial Itinerary: Reading the Journals of John Marsh.

Summary:

"This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation in lateral directions not coincident with those of the literary sphere. Deploying a wide range of historical, archival and literary materials, the study combines the history and geography of books, cultural theory, and literary history to make visible a bookish array of alterative networks, genres, and locations obscured by the literary sphere in establishing its authority as arbiter of the modern book"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print

ISBN:

1137367598
9781137367594

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908090976

LCCN:

2015012996

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)