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

"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...

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Main Authors: Ferris, Ina. (Author)
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and cultures of print
Subjects:
Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Bibliography > Great Britain > Societies, etc. > 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.
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"--
Carrier Form: x, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-186) and index.
ISBN: 9781137367594 (hardcover) :
1137367598 (hardcover)
Index Number: Z1003
CLC: G252
G239.561.9
Call Number: G239.561.9/F394
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.

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