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Modern Print Artefacts: Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s
Patrick Collier
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Description for Modern Print Artefacts: Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s
Hardback. This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: TDPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 560.
Demonstrates the ways in which print artefacts asserted and contested literary value in the modernist period
This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The book demonstrates that the materiality of print objects-paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc.-became uniquely visible and significant in these years, as a result of a widely perceived crisis in literary valuation. In a set of case studies, it analyses the relations between literary value, meaning, and textual materiality in print artefacts such as newspapers, magazines, and book genres-artefacts that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474413473
SKU
V9781474413473
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99-50
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