Literary cultures and the material book / edited by Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison.

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Contributors: Eliot, Simon (Editor), Nash, Andrew (Editor), Willison, Ian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : The British Library, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SOME MATERIAL FACTORS IN LITERARY CULTURE; A THOUSAND YEARS OF PRINTED NARRATIVE IN CHINA; MARKETING THE TALE OF GENJI IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN; LITERARY CULTURE AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE IN PRECOLONIAL INDIA; THE SHAHNAMA AND THE PERSIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK'; TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND LITERARY CULTURE IN AFRICA; EPIC, DIFFUSION AND IDENTITY; CAROLINGIAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF THE LITERARY CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES; THE DIFFUSION OF LITERATURE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY.
  • FROM LITERARY ALMANACS TO 'THICK JOURNALS'LITERARY CONSEQUENCES OF THE PERIPHERAL NATURE OF SPANISH PRINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; THE CONFLICTS OF THE CANON; THE BOOK AND NATURALISM IN SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA; FRIEDRICH NICOLAI; THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND BOOK TRADE IN EUROPE; FRANCE BETWEEN LITERARY CULTURE AND MASS CULTURE: SEVENTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES; PUBLISHING AND LITERATURE IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD; JACQUES HEBERT; CREATING AN ENGLISH LITERARY CANON, 1679-1720; LITERARY CULTURE AND LITERARY PUBLISHING IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN; 'THE ELIXIR OF LIFE'
  • THE TRADITION OF A.W. POLLARDAND THE WORLD OF LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP'IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE, WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK?'; FROM METHODIST LITERARY CULTURE TO CANADIAN LITERARY CULTURE; 'THE CENTENNIAL RACKET'; 'HEAVEN FORBID THAT I SHOULD THINK OF TREATING WITH AN ENGLISH PUBLISHER'; PERSPECTIVES FOR AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK; INDEX.