TY - SER AU - Simon Eliot AU - Andrew Nash AU - Ian R. Willison CY - London, England LA - English N1 -

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.

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.

PB - British Library PP - London, England PY - 2007 SN - 978-0-7123-0684-3 EP - 444 pp. TI - Literary Cultures and the Material Book ER -