The reading nation in the Romantic period
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書誌事項
The reading nation in the Romantic period
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- : hbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 724-742) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
During the four centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, everyone engaged in politics, education, religion, and literature believed that reading helped to shape the minds, opinions, attitudes, and ultimately the actions, of readers. In this 2004 book, William St Clair investigates how the national culture can be understood through a quantitative study of the books that were actually read. Centred on the Romantic period in the English-speaking world, but ranging across the whole print era, it reaches startling conclusions about the forces that determined how ideas were carried, through print, into wider society. St Clair provides an in-depth investigation of information, made available here for the first time, on prices, print runs, intellectual property, and readerships gathered from over fifty publishing and printing archives. He offers a picture of the past very different from those presented by traditional approaches. Indispensable to students of English literature, book history, and the history of ideas, the study's conclusions and explanatory models are highly relevant to the issues we face in the age of the internet.
目次
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Reading and its consequences
- 2. Economic characteristics of the printed book industry
- 3. Intellectual property
- 4. Anthologies, abridgment, and the development of commercial vested interests in prolonging the obsolete
- 5. The high monopoly period in England
- 6. The explosion of reading
- 7. The old canon
- 8. Shakespeare
- 9. Literary production in the Romantic period
- 10. Manufacturing
- 11. Selling, prices, and access
- 12. Romance
- 13. Reading constituencies
- 14. Horizons of expectations
- 15. 'Those vile French piracies'
- 16. 'Preparatory schools for the brothel and the gallows'
- 17. At the boundaries of the reading nation
- 18. Frankenstein
- 19. North America
- 20. Reading, reception, and dissemination
- 21. The romantic poets in the Victorian age
- 22. The political economy of reading.
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