The Cambridge companion to the history of the book

"Throughout human history the world's knowledge, and fruits of the creative imagination, have been produced, circulated and received through the medium of the material text. This Companion provides a wide-ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from...

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Autres auteurs : Howsam Leslie (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The Cambridge companion to the history of the book / edited by Leslie Howsam
Publié : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-284 p.)
Collection : Cambridge companions to literature
Sujets :
  • P. 1
  • 1. The study of book history / Leslie Howsam
  • Part I. Book Cultures, Local, National and Global
  • P. 17
  • 2. Books in the library / Karen Attar
  • P. 36
  • 3. Books in the nation / Trish Loughran
  • P. 53
  • 4. Books in global perspectives / Sydney Shep
  • Part II. The Material Book and the Mutable Text
  • P. 73
  • 5. Materials and meanings / Peter Stoicheff
  • P. 90
  • 6. Handwriting and the book / Margaret J. M. Ezell
  • P. 107
  • 7. The coming of print to Europe / Adrian Johns
  • P. 125
  • 8. The authority and subversiveness of print in early modern Europe / Cyndia Clegg
  • P. 143
  • 9. The industrial revolution of the book / James Raven
  • P. 162
  • 10. The book in the long twentieth century / Alistair McCleery
  • P. 181
  • 11. The digital book / Jon Bath and Scott Schofield
  • Part III. Methods, Sources and Approaches to the History of the Book
  • P. 199
  • 12. Book history from descriptive bibliographies / Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
  • P. 219
  • 13. Book history from the archival record / Katherine Bode and Roger Osborne
  • P. 237
  • 14. Book history in the reading experience / Mary Hammond
  • P. 253
  • 15. Book history in the classroom / Leslie Howsam