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Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)
Ina Ferris
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Description for Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)
Hardcover. A new perspective on the disjunction between book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century that shaped the contours of the modern literary sphere. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137367594
SKU
V9781137367594
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99-15
About Ina Ferris
Ina Ferris is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her books include The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland, and Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900 (co-edited with Paul Keen).
Reviews for Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)
“Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere sheds valuable light upon the depth and nature of this impact, greatly illuminating the world of the Romantic bookman: his texts, activities, and communities.” (Daniel Norman, Notes and Queries, Vol. 66 (1), March, 2019) “Ina Ferris’s Book-Men, Book Clubs and the Romantic Literary Sphere offers original contributions to this growing ... Read more