| Description |
x, 390 : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
What is the history of books? / Robert Darnton -- The book as an expressive form / D.F. McKenzie -- The socialization of texts / Jerome McGann -- Labourers and voyagers: from the text to the reader / Roger Chartier -- The book of nature and the nature of the book / Adrian Johns -- The field of cultural production / Pierre Bourdieu -- Orality and literacy: writing restructures conciousness / Walter Ong -- The practical impact of writing / Roger Chartier -- The body of the book: the media transition from manuscript to print / Jan-Dirk Mùˆller -- Defining the initial shift: some features of print culture / Elisabeth Eisenstein -- The Indian ecumene: an indigenous public sphere / C.A. Bayly -- The sociology of a text: orality, literacy and print in early New Zealand / D.F. McKenzie -- The death of the author / Roland Barthes -- What is an author / Michel Foucault -- Literary property determined / Mark Rose -- Authors, publishers and the making of literary culture / John Brewer -- Masterpiece Theater: the politics of Hawthorne's literary reputation / Jane Tompkins -- The Victorian novelists: who were they? / John Sutherland -- The magazine market / James L.W. West -- Anyone of everybody: net books and Howard's end / N.N. Feltes -- Interaction between text and reader / Wolfgang Iser -- Literacy instruction and gender in colonial New England / E. Jennifer Monaghan -- Reading practices / Kate Flint -- Rereading the English common reader: a preface to a history of audiences / Jonathan Rose -- The English common reader: from Caxton to the eighteenth century / Richard Altick -- Interpreting the Variorum / Stanley Fish -- A feeling for books: the book-of-the-month club, literary taste and middle-class desire / Janice Radway. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [372]-384) and index. |
| Subject |
Books -- Social aspects -- History.
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Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History.
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Authorship -- Social aspects -- History.
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| Added Author |
Finkelstein, David, 1964-
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McCleery, Alistair.
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| ISBN |
0415226589 |
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