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Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900 2009 Edition
Contributor(s): Ferris, I. (Editor), Keen, P. (Editor)
ISBN: 0230222315     ISBN-13: 9780230222311
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
OUR PRICE:   $52.24  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2009
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Annotation: This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new bookish literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
Dewey: 028.909
LCCN: 2009041350
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 294 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.