Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

Ferris, Ina

This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation in lateral directions not coincident with those of the literary sphere. Deploying a wide range of historical, archival and literary materials, the study combines the history and geography of books, cultural theory, and literary history to make visible a bookish array of alterative networks, genres, and locations that were obscured by the literary sphere in establishing its authority as arbiter of the modern book.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-08-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137367594

DOI: 10.1057/9781137367600

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 192