Télécharger le livre :  The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture
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This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-28
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Books Across Borders
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Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-06-19
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing
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This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies the ways eighteenth-century English novels, plays and poems illustrated...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-21
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Conrad's Reading
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This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-18
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture
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There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-09
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects
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This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-20
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe
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This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-07
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe
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This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-31
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Approaches to the History of Written Culture
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This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-07
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Russian Book
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This book takes up the obtrusive problem of visual representation of fiction in contemporary Russian book design. By analyzing a broad variety of book covers, the study offers an absolutely unique material that illustrates a radically changing notion of literature in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-01
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Global Histories of Books
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This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-07-26
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities
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This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an international...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-17
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transatlantic Circulation of Novels Between Europe and Brazil, 1789-1914
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This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national territories. Relying on primary sources (such as advertisements, censorship reviews, publisher and bookstore catalogues),...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-28
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-27
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement
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This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-06-15
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Book in Africa
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This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-02
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Consumable Texts in Contemporary India
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Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-02-23
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Across Worlds
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Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-17
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-09
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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Télécharger le livre :  Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
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This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-09
Collection : New Directions in Book History
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