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Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book
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Description for Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book
Hardcover. Editor(s): Runge, Laura L.; Rogers, Pat. Num Pages: 298 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
This volume includes twelve essays on the history of the book in the long eighteenth century that collectively argue for the importance of integrating literary scholarship and the various practices of book history. Themes include: a rectification of the tendency in literary studies to be blind to the materiality of the book; a focus on the ways that eighteenth-century expectations for books differ from contemporary ideas; the identification of the roles of writers and publishers as reciprocal and competing; the development of modern conventions of the material book; the ways in which the forms of books inform and influence literature ... Read more
This volume includes twelve essays on the history of the book in the long eighteenth century that collectively argue for the importance of integrating literary scholarship and the various practices of book history. Themes include: a rectification of the tendency in literary studies to be blind to the materiality of the book; a focus on the ways that eighteenth-century expectations for books differ from contemporary ideas; the identification of the roles of writers and publishers as reciprocal and competing; the development of modern conventions of the material book; the ways in which the forms of books inform and influence literature ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491265
SKU
V9781611491265
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Ref
99-15
About
Laura L. Runge is professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of South Florida. Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida.
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