A Companion to the History of the BookSimon Eliot, Jonathan Rose John Wiley & Sons, 24 ago 2011 - 624 pagine A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TO Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how cultures come into being, endure, and change, then you need to come to terms with the rich and often surprising history Of the book ... Eliot and Rose have done a fine job. Their volume can be heartily recommended. “ From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Many of them use illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts, conveying the excitement surrounding this rapidly developing field. The Companion is organized around four distinct approaches to the history of the book. First, it introduces the variety of methods used by book historians and allied specialists, from the long-established discipline of bibliography to newer IT-based approaches. Next, it provides a broad chronological survey of the forms and content of texts. The third section situates the book in the context of text culture as a whole, while the final section addresses broader issues, such as literacy, copyright, and the future of the book. Contributors to this volume: Michael Albin, Martin Andrews, Rob Banham, Megan L Benton, Michelle P. Brown, Marie-Frangoise Cachin, Hortensia Calvo, Charles Chadwyck-Healey, M. T. Clanchy, Stephen Colclough, Patricia Crain, J. S. Edgren, Simon Eliot, John Feather, David Finkelstein, David Greetham, Robert A. Gross, Deana Heath, Lotte Hellinga, T. H. Howard-Hill, Peter Kornicki, Beth Luey, Paul Luna, Russell L. Martin Ill, Jean-Yves Mollier, Angus Phillips, Eleanor Robson, Cornelia Roemer, Jonathan Rose, Emile G. L Schrijver, David J. Shaw, Graham Shaw, Claire Squires, Rietje van Vliet, James Wald, Rowan Watson, Alexis Weedon, Adriaan van der Weel, Wayne A. Wiegand, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. |
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The Uses of Quantification | 33 |
Books and Biography | 50 |
The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer Assyria and Babylonia | 67 |
The Papyrus Roll in Egypt Greece and Rome | 84 |
China | 97 |
Latin America | 138 |
The Hebraic Book | 153 |
Europe 18001890 | 303 |
The United States 18001890 | 315 |
The Globalization of the Book 18001970 | 329 |
Britain 18901970 | 341 |
Europe 18901970 | 354 |
The United States 18901970 | 368 |
Texts and Technology 19702000 | 381 |
Producers | 395 |
The Islamic Book | 165 |
The Manuscript Book before 1100 | 179 |
Manuscript Culture 11001500 | 194 |
The Gutenberg Revolutions | 207 |
The Sixteenth Century | 220 |
The British Book Market 16001800 | 232 |
Print and Public in Europe 16001800 | 247 |
North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800 | 259 |
The Industrialization of the Book 18001970 | 273 |
The British Book | 291 |
Periodicals and Periodicity | 421 |
The Importance of Ephemera | 434 |
The New Textual Technologies | 451 |
New Histories of Literacy | 467 |
Some Nontextual Uses of Books | 480 |
The Book as Art | 493 |
Obscenity Censorship and Modernity | 508 |
Libraries and the Invention of Information | 531 |
Does the Book Have a Future? | 547 |
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