Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age

Piper, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0226669726 / ISBN 13: 9780226669724

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 2009

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Burgundy cloth-covered boards with gold titling on spine. Very slight wear on edges of dust jacket. Clean and unmarked. Not an ex-library book. 320 p. Shelf: B-3.

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• Titolo: Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226669726
• ISBN 13: 9780226669724
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • NONFICTION
  • Literature

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Riassunto

At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing that created the era&;s &;bookish&; culture. According to Andrew Piper, romantic writing and romantic writers played a crucial role in adjusting readers to this increasingly international and overflowing literary environment. Learning how to use and to want books occurred through more than the technological, commercial, or legal conditions that made the growing proliferation of books possible; the making of such bibliographic fantasies was importantly a product of the symbolic operations contained within books as well.

            Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book&;s identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a particular sense of urgency during the bookish upheavals of the romantic era. In revisiting the book&;s rise through the prism of romantic literature, Piper aims to revise our assumptions about romanticism, the medium of the printed book, and, ultimately, the future of the book in our so-called digital age.

Informazioni sull?autore

Andrew Piper teaches German and European literature at McGill University and is the author of Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times, also published by the University of Chicago Press.