Synopses & Reviews
Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.
Synopsis
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Fraser & M.Hammond Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History; S.Shep Publishing Under the Yoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavorov; M.Gibson 'After the Old; yet as agreeable... to the Newest': British and American Almanacs in the Era of American Independence; L.Santoro From Germany to Brazil: The History of the Fashion Magazine A Esta o, an International Enterprise; A.C.Suriani da Silva School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste; R.Fraser Origin and Growth of the White Fathers Press at Bukalasa, Uganda; I.Page A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century; P.M.B.Jurilla Greene, Waugh, and the Lure of Travel; L.Prescott Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series - A Publisher's Memoir; J.Currey Outside the Nation(al): 'South African' Print and Book Cultures and Global ' Text -scapes'; A.van der Vlies Shakespeare's Postcolonial Journey; R.Mooneeram Select Bibliography Index
About the Author
MARY HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of
Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 and articles on writing, reading and publishing in the Victorian Edwardian periods. She is also co-editor of
Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History.
ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature, Open University, UK. He is the author of books on Marcel Proust, Sir James Frazer, Victorian quest romance, print culture and various postcolonial literatures. A serial biographer, he is also a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Asiatic Society.
Table of Contents
List of Figures * List of Tables * Acknowledgments * Notes on Contributors * Introduction--
R.Fraser &
M.Hammond * Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History--
S.Shep * Publishing Under the Yoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavorov--
M.Gibson * After the Old--yet as agreeable... to the Newest': British and American Almanacs in the Era of American Independence--
L.Santoro * From Germany to Brazil: The History of the Fashion Magazine
A Estação, an International Enterprise--
A.C.Suriani da Silva * School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste--
R.Fraser * Origin and Growth of the
White Fathers Press at Bukalasa, Uganda--
I.Page * A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century--
P.M.B.Jurilla&--
W.Greene * The Lure of Travel--
L.Prescott * Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series - A Publisher's Memoir--
J.Currey * Outside the Nation(al): 'South African' Print and Book Cultures and Global '
Text-scapes'--
A.van der Vlies * Shakespeare's Postcolonial Journey--
R.Mooneeram * Select Bibliography * Index