British Literature And Print Culture

Author : Sandro Jung
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843843436

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British Literature and Print Culture by Sandro Jung Pdf

The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles. The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's The Seasons; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.

Author : Richard Menke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492942

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Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 by Richard Menke Pdf

Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.

Author : Alexis Easley,Clare Gill,Beth Rodgers
Publisher : Edinburgh History of Women
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474433901

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Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s by Alexis Easley,Clare Gill,Beth Rodgers Pdf

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

Author : Solveig Robinson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781554810741

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The Book in Society by Solveig Robinson Pdf

The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. Books can inform, entertain, inspire, irritate, liberate, or challenge readers, and their forms can be tangible and traditional, like a printed, casebound volume, or virtual and transitory, like a screen-page of a cell-phone novel. Written in clear, non-specialist prose, The Book in Society first provides an overview of the rise of the book and of the modern publishing and bookselling industries. It explores the evolution of written texts from early forms to contemporary formats, the interrelationship between literacy and technology, and the prospects for the book in the twenty-first century. The second half of the book is based on historian Robert Darnton’s concept of a book publishing “communication circuit.” It examines how books migrate from the minds of authors to the minds of readers, exploring such topics as the rise of the modern notion of the author, the role of states and others in promoting or restricting the circulation of books, various modes of reproducing and circulating texts, and how readers’ responses help shape the form and content of the books available to them. Feature boxes highlighting key texts, individuals, and developments in the history of the book, carefully selected illustrations, and a glossary all help bring the history of the book to life.

Author : Temma Berg,Sonia Kane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611461428

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Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Temma Berg,Sonia Kane Pdf

This edited collection, a tribute to the late noted eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, testifies to her influence as a researcher, writer, teacher, and mentor. The essays, written by a range of established and younger eighteenth-century specialists, expand on the themes important to Rizzo: the importance of the archive, the contributions of women writers to the canon of eighteenth-century literature and to an emerging print culture, the sometimes fraught relations within the eighteenth-century family, the relationship between life and literature, and, finally, the role of female companionship in women’s lives. Divided into three sections, “Living in the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” “Living in the Eighteenth-Century World,” and “Afterlives,” the fourteen essays that form the body of the collection treat such topics as epistolarity, fraternal relations in novels and in families, women and travel in Jane Austen’s novels, the pleasures and challenges of searching through archives to understand the complex entanglements of eighteenth-century families, the changing reception of Alexander Pope’s poetry, and intersections among race, class, gender, and sexuality in a famous early-nineteenth-century Scottish libel case. The final essay of the fourteen connects the archetypal eighteenth-century figure of the seduced and abandoned woman to Sophie Calle’s 2007 Venice Biennale exhibition entitled Take Care of Yourself, which the author reads as a direct descendant of the eighteenth-century letter novel.The book is framed by an introduction that situates the book as part of the ongoing redefinition of the archive of eighteenth-century literature and an afterword that gives a personal account of Rizzo’s career and her indelible legacy as friend, mentor, and professional model. The contributors use a variety of methods in their scholarship, but a common strand is archival research and close reading inflected by feminist analysis. The book will appeal to students and scholars of eighteenth-century British literature and culture and to those interested in women’s writing and women’s relationships in the eighteenth century—and today—and in feminist literary history. The contributors to the volume practice the kind of scholarship Rizzo was known for—painstaking archival research and attention to the nuances of relationships among eighteenth-century women (and men)—and in so doing shed new light on a number of familiar and not-so-familiar eighteenth-century texts.

Author : Janine Barchas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521819083

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Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Janine Barchas Pdf

The uniformity of the eighteenth-century novel in today's paperbacks and critical editions no longer conveys the early novel's visual exuberance. Janine Barchas explains how during the genre's formation in the first half of the eighteenth century, the novel's material embodiment as printed book rivalled its narrative content in diversity and creativity. Innovations in layout, ornamentation, and even punctuation found in, for example, the novels of Richardson, an author who printed his own books, help shape a tradition of early visual ingenuity. From the beginning of the novel's emergence in Britain, prose writers including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Henry and Sarah Fielding experimented with the novel's appearance. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 graphic features found in eighteenth-century editions, this important study aims to recover the visual context in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced and read.

Author : Paul Keen
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770482227

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Revolutions in Romantic Literature by Paul Keen Pdf

This concise Broadview anthology of primary source materials is unique in its focus on Romantic literature and the ways in which the period itself was characterized by wide-ranging, self-conscious debates about the meaning of literature. It includes materials that are not available in other Romantic literature anthologies. The anthology is organized into thirteen sections that highlight the intensity and sophistication with which a variety of related literary issues were debated in the Romantic period. These debates posed fundamental questions about the very nature of literature as a cultural phenomenon, the extent and role of the reading public, literature's relation to the sciences and the aesthetic, the influence of contemporary commercial pressures, and the impact of perceived excesses in consumer fashions. The anthology foregrounds the ways that these literary debates converged with broader social and political controversies such as the French Revolution, the struggle for women's rights, colonialism, and the anti-slave trade campaign. This anthology includes an impressive range of writings from the period (including literary criticism and philosophical, political, scientific, and travel writing) which embodies the collection's broad approach to Romantic literature. Both lesser-known and more canonical writings are included, and the selections are organized by topic in such a way as to dramatize the debates and exchanges which characterize the Romantic period.

Author : M. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230308121

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Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture by M. Smith Pdf

While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire.

Author : Paul Keen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426480

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The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s by Paul Keen Pdf

This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in eighteenth-century England. He shows these movements converging in hostility to a new class of readers, whom critics saw as dangerously subject to the effects of seditious writings or the vagaries of literary fashion. The first part of the book concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists, radical women authors, and the Orientalists, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.

Author : James Thomson,Patrick Murdoch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6PGU

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The Seasons by James Thomson,Patrick Murdoch Pdf

Author : Ashley Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415572453

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The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-century British Literature by Ashley Dawson Pdf

In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors Examination of the cultural and literary impact of crucial historical, social, political and cultural events Discussion of Britain's imperial status in the century and the diversification of the nation through Black and Asian British Literature Readers are also provided with a comprehensive timeline, a glossary of terms, further reading and explanatory text boxes featuring further information on key figures and events.

Author : Nicola Louise Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004315884

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The Book World by Nicola Louise Wilson Pdf

In this wide-ranging collection, the impact of distribution and the institutions and practices of reading are explored to open up new perspectives on the British book trade and the production, circulation and consumption of literature in the early twentieth century.

Author : Joseph Black,et al.
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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British Literature: A Historical Overview by Joseph Black,et al. Pdf

These two volumes provide an overview of British literature in its social and historical context from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the twenty-first century. They trace literary developments in all genres, and touch as well on key developments in the history of the language and the history of print culture. Additionally, they provide essential historical background for those unfamiliar with the unfolding of British political, social, economic, and cultural history during each of the six periods into which the study of British literature is commonly divided (The Medieval Period, The Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century, The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, The Age of Romanticism, The Victorian Era, The Twentieth Century and Beyond).

Author : Patricia Cove
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474447263

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Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture by Patricia Cove Pdf

This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification.

Author : Suvir Kaul
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748634569

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Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Suvir Kaul Pdf

'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced by the labouring bodies of the poor, the colonized, and the enslaved. Eighteenth-century studies has never appeared in a more engaged and fascinating light.'Professor Donna Landry, University of KentIn this volume Suvir Kaul addresses the relations between literary culture, English commercial and colonial expansion, and the making of 'Great Britain' in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He argues that literary writing played a crucial role in generating the vocabulary of British nationalism, both in inter-national terms and in attempts to realign political and cultural relations between England, Scotland, and Ireland. The formal innovations and practices characteristic of eighteenth-century English literature were often responses to the worlds brought into view by travel writers, merchants, and colonists. Writers (even those suspicious of mercantile and colonial expansion) worked with a growing sense of a 'national literature' whose achievements would provide the cultural capital adequate to global imperial power, and would distinguish Great Britain for its twin success in 'arms and arts'. The book ranges from Davenant's theatre to Smollet's Roderick Random to Phillis Wheatley's poetry to trace the impact of empire on literary creativity.Key Features*An introduction to the impact of mercantilism and empire on the crafting of eighteenth-century British literature*Encourages students to examine the key formal innovations that define eighteenth-century British literary history as they were produced by writers who redefined