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Esta serie profundiza en la historia multifacética del libro, rastreando su evolución desde la antigüedad hasta el siglo XXI. Promueve metodologías innovadoras y descubre nuevas fronteras de investigación a escala global. Cada volumen explora las culturas de la escritura, la imprenta y la posimpresión, desafiando las teorías existentes y abriendo nuevas perspectivas. La colección se sitúa a la vanguardia de los estudios interdisciplinarios, ampliando constantemente los límites del conocimiento en la historia del libro.

Conrad's Reading
Media and print culture consumption in nineteenth-century Britain
The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture
Magical manuscripts in early modern Europe
Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities

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  • Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities

    Making The Modernist Archives Publishing Project

    • 200 páginas
    • 7 horas de lectura

    This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an international collaborative digital project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, that uses digital tools to showcase archival traces of twentieth-century publishing. The twenty-first century has witnessed, and is living through, some of the most dynamic changes ever experienced in the publishing industry, arguably altering our very understanding of what it means to read a book. This book brings to both general readers and scholarly researchers a new way of accessing, and thereby assessing, the historical meanings of change within the twentieth-century publication industry by building a resource which organises, interacts with, and uses historical information about book culture to narrate the continuities and discontinuities in reading and publishing over the last century.

    Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities

  • Magical manuscripts in early modern Europe

    • 166 páginas
    • 6 horas de lectura
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    This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles – as an artefact of the early modern book market as well as the longue-durée tradition of Western learned magic –, thus taking a new stance towards scribal texts that are often regarded as eccentric, peripheral, or marginal. The study is structured by the apparent exceptionality, scarcity, and illegality of the collection, and provides chapters on clandestine activities in European book markets, questions of censorship regimes and efficiency, the use of manuscripts in an age of print, and the history of learned magic in early modern Europe. As the collection has survived till this day in Leipzig University Library, the book provides a critical edition of the 1710 selling catalogue, which includes a brief content analysis of all extant manuscripts. The study will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety of fields, such as early modern book history, the history of magic, cultural history, the sociology of religion, or the study of Western esotericism.

    Magical manuscripts in early modern Europe

  • Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

    • 272 páginas
    • 10 horas de lectura
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    There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of literary communities; and as cultural products in their own right. As such they strongly influence how literary culture is produced, circulates and is experienced by readers in the twenty-first century. This book explores how audiences engage with literary festivals, and analyses these festivals’ relationship to local and digital literary communities, to the creative industries focus of contemporary cultural policy, and to the broader literary field. The relationship between literary festivals and these configuring forces is illustrated with in-depth case studies of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Port Eliot Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers’ Festival, and the Clunes Booktown Festival. Building on interviews with audiences and staff, contextualised by a large-scale online survey of literary festival audiences from around the world, this book investigates these festivals’ social, cultural, commercial, and political operation. In doing so, this book critically orients scholarly investigation of literary festivals with respect to the complex and contested terrain of contemporary book culture.

    Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

  • Media and print culture consumption in nineteenth-century Britain

    • 241 páginas
    • 9 horas de lectura

    This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences’ engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, exhibitions, and oral culture.

    Media and print culture consumption in nineteenth-century Britain

  • Conrad's Reading

    Space, Time, Networks

    • 260 páginas
    • 10 horas de lectura

    Focusing on the intersection of book history and literary research, this work explores the reading experiences of a renowned writer through a three-part approach. It reconstructs the author's two decades of maritime and shore-based reading, linking it to his famous narrator Marlow's practices. The study delves into his connections with male friends and literate multilingual women, contextualized within Edwardian reading habits. Additionally, it examines fictional representations of reading, including genre trends and therapeutic uses, making it valuable for both Conrad scholars and reading historians.

    Conrad's Reading

  • Reading and the First World War

    • 266 páginas
    • 10 horas de lectura
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    Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.

    Reading and the First World War

  • The global histories of books

    • 334 páginas
    • 12 horas de lectura
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    This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent on models of the local and the national, we suggest that approaching the book as a cross-region, travelling – and therefore global- object offers new approaches and methodologies for a study in global perspective. By thus studying the book in its transnational and inter-imperial, textual, inter-textual and material dimensions, this collection will highlight its key role in making possible a global imagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators.

    The global histories of books

  • The book in Africa

    • 292 páginas
    • 11 horas de lectura

    This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications.

    The book in Africa

  • The perils of print culture

    • 242 páginas
    • 9 horas de lectura
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    This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.

    The perils of print culture

  • Publishers, readers, and digital engagement

    • 245 páginas
    • 9 horas de lectura
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    This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love. Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and librarians were the primary gatekeepers responsible for getting books into the hands of young people. Now publishers can create disintermediated digital enclosures in which they can communicate directly with their reading audience. This book exposes how teens contribute their immaterial and affective labor as they engage in participatory reading experiences via publishers’ and authors’ interactive websites and use of social media, and how in turn publishers are able to use such labor as they get invaluable market research, peer-to-peer recommendations, and even content which can be used in other projects all virtually free-of-charge.

    Publishers, readers, and digital engagement

  • Approaches to the History of Written Culture

    A World Inscribed

    • 272 páginas
    • 10 horas de lectura
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    This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined. In ten studies, presented by leading historians of scribal culture from seven countries, the book investigates the uses of writing in non-alphabetical as well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from Native America and ancient Korea to modern Europe. The authors emphasise the material characteristics of writing, and in so doing they pose questions about the definition of writing itself. Drawing on expertise in various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of ‘Book History’.

    Approaches to the History of Written Culture