Old Books and New Histories An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

Name: Old Books and New Histories An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture
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ISBN: 9780802094384

ISBN-10: 0802094384

ISBN-13: 9780802094384

Edition: 2006

Authors: Leslie Howsam

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Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich but sometimes confusing territory, explaining how different scholarly approaches to what may appear to be the same entity can lead to divergent questions and contradictory answers.Rather than introduce the events and turning points in the history of book culture, or debates among its theorists,…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 9/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.396

Leslie Howsam is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Windsor.