Literary Cultures and the Material Book

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2007
Author	Editor: Simon Eliot Editor: Andrew Nash Editor: Ian R. Willison
Language	English
Number of Pages	444 pp.
Publisher	British Library
City	London, England
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Region	Africa Asia Canada Europe Middle East Oceania United States
Chronological Period	10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century Ancient Period (pre 500)
ISBN	978-0-7123-0684-3
Annotation	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.