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

Contributor(s): Eliot, Simon | Nash, Andrew, 1972- | Willison, I. R. (Ian R.) | British Library Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : British Library, 2007. Description: xix, 444 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780712306843; 0712306846Subject(s): Books -- History -- Congresses | Printing -- History -- Congresses | Literature publishing -- Congresses | Books and reading -- CongressesDDC classification: 002 LIT LOC classification: Z286.L58 | L57 2007Online resources: OCLC

Contents:

Some material factors in literary culture 2500BCE-1900CE / Simon Eliot -- Non-western traditions of the book. A thousand years of printed narrative in China / Glen Dudbridge -- Marketing the Tale of the Genji in seventeenth-century Japan / Peter Kornicki -- Literary culture and manuscript culture in precolonial India / Sheldon Pollock -- The Shahnama and the Persian illustrated book / Robert Hillenbrand -- Towards a history of the book and literary culture in Africa / Isabel Hofmeyr. The Western book in history. Epic, diffusion and identity / Christopher Carey -- Carolignian manuscript culture and the making of the literary culture of the Middle Ages / David Ganz -- Petrarca philobiblon: the author and his books / Nicholas Mann -- The diffusion of literature in Renaissance Italy: the case of Pietro Bembo / Brian Richardson -- From literary almanacs to 'thick journals': the emergence of a readership for Russian literature, 1820s-1840s / Abram Reitblat and Christine Thomas. Language empires. Literary consequences of the peripheral nature of Spanish printing in the sixteenth century / Clive Griffins -- The conflicts of the canon: printing and literary culture during the Spanish enlightenment / Maria Luisa López-Vidriero -- The book and naturalism in Spain, Portugal and Latin America / Jean-François Botrel -- Friedrich Nicolai: creator of the German republic of letters / Bernhard Fabian -- The German language and book trade in Europe: cultural transfers and collective identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jean-Yves Mollier -- Publishing and literature in the French-speaking world: the cultural hegemony of the centre and the creative role of the periphery / François Vallotton -- Jacques Hébert: foremost publisher of the Quiet Revolution / Jacques Michon. The Anglophone tradition. Creating an English literary canon, 1679-1720: Jacob Tonson, Dryden and Congreve / John Barnard -- Literary culture and literary publishing in inter-war Britain: a view from Chatto & Windus / Andrew Nash -- 'The elixir of life': Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library and literary London / Richard Landon -- The tradition of A.W. Pollard and the world of literary scholarship / Stephen Bury -- 'In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?' / Michael Winship -- From Methodist literary culture to Canadian literary culture: the United Church Publishing House/the Ryerson Press, 1829-1970 / Janet B. Friskney -- 'The centennial racket': J.C. Beaglehole, nationalism and the 1940 New Zealand centennial publications / Sydney J. Shep -- 'Heaven forbid that I should think of treating with an English publisher': the dilemma of literary nationalists in federated Australia / John Barnes -- Afterword. Perspectives for an international history of the book / David McKitterick.

Summary: Derived from papers presented at an international symposium held at the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies in the Institute of English Studies in the University of London and at the British Library, London in 2004.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	002 LIT 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		25573

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some material factors in literary culture 2500BCE-1900CE / Simon Eliot --
Non-western traditions of the book. A thousand years of printed narrative in China / Glen Dudbridge --
Marketing the Tale of the Genji in seventeenth-century Japan / Peter Kornicki --
Literary culture and manuscript culture in precolonial India / Sheldon Pollock --
The Shahnama and the Persian illustrated book / Robert Hillenbrand --
Towards a history of the book and literary culture in Africa / Isabel Hofmeyr. The Western book in history. Epic, diffusion and identity / Christopher Carey --
Carolignian manuscript culture and the making of the literary culture of the Middle Ages / David Ganz --
Petrarca philobiblon: the author and his books / Nicholas Mann --
The diffusion of literature in Renaissance Italy: the case of Pietro Bembo / Brian Richardson --
From literary almanacs to 'thick journals': the emergence of a readership for Russian literature, 1820s-1840s / Abram Reitblat and Christine Thomas. Language empires. Literary consequences of the peripheral nature of Spanish printing in the sixteenth century / Clive Griffins --
The conflicts of the canon: printing and literary culture during the Spanish enlightenment / Maria Luisa López-Vidriero --
The book and naturalism in Spain, Portugal and Latin America / Jean-François Botrel --
Friedrich Nicolai: creator of the German republic of letters / Bernhard Fabian --
The German language and book trade in Europe: cultural transfers and collective identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jean-Yves Mollier --
Publishing and literature in the French-speaking world: the cultural hegemony of the centre and the creative role of the periphery / François Vallotton --
Jacques Hébert: foremost publisher of the Quiet Revolution / Jacques Michon. The Anglophone tradition. Creating an English literary canon, 1679-1720: Jacob Tonson, Dryden and Congreve / John Barnard --
Literary culture and literary publishing in inter-war Britain: a view from Chatto & Windus / Andrew Nash --
'The elixir of life': Richard Garnett, the British Museum Library and literary London / Richard Landon --
The tradition of A.W. Pollard and the world of literary scholarship / Stephen Bury --
'In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?' / Michael Winship --
From Methodist literary culture to Canadian literary culture: the United Church Publishing House/the Ryerson Press, 1829-1970 / Janet B. Friskney --
'The centennial racket': J.C. Beaglehole, nationalism and the 1940 New Zealand centennial publications / Sydney J. Shep --
'Heaven forbid that I should think of treating with an English publisher': the dilemma of literary nationalists in federated Australia / John Barnes --
Afterword. Perspectives for an international history of the book / David McKitterick.

Derived from papers presented at an international symposium held at the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies in the Institute of English Studies in the University of London and at the British Library, London in 2004.

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