Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
INA FERRIS is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her books include a critical edition of Charlotte Smith's
The Old Manor House,
The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland, and
The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels.
PAUL KEEN is Professor of English at Carleton University, Canada. He is the author of The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere, and the editor of The Radical Popular Press in Britain, 1817-1821 and Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology of Print Culture, 1780-1832.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Towards a Bookish Literary History--I.Ferris &--P.Keen
PART I: RECONFIGURING LITERARY HISTORY
Wild 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.McKelvy
PART II: BOOKS IN THE EVERYDAY
Canons' 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 FIELD
Reading 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