The perils of print culture : book, print and publishing history in theory and practice
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The perils of print culture : book, print and publishing history in theory and practice
（New directions in book history / series editors, Jonathan Rose and Shafquat Towheed）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
- : [hbk.]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-239) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Contributors 1. The Perils of Print Culture: An Introduction
- Jason McElligott and Eve Patten 2. The Practice of Book and Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings
- Leslie Howsam 3. 'Pretious treasures made cheap'? The Real Cost of Reading Roman History in Early Modern England
- Freyja Cox Jensen 4. Early Printed Liturgical Books and the Modern Resources that Describe Them: The Case of the Hereford Breviary, 1505
- Matthew Cheung Salisbury 5. 'Lacking Ware, withal': Finding Sir James Ware Among the Many Incarnations of his Histories
- Mark Williams 6. Balancing Theoretical Models and Local Studies: the Case of William St. Clair and Copyright in Ireland
- Sarah Crider Arndt 7. The Impact of Print in Ireland, 1680-1800: Problems and Perils
- T.C. Barnard 8. Signs of the Times? Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-century Secret Histories
- Rebecca Bullard 9. Dangerous Detours: The Perils of Victorian Periodicals in the Digitized Age
- Margery Masterson 10. Nineteenth-century Print on the Move: A Perilous Study of Trans-local Migration and Print Skills Transfer
- David Finkelstein 11. The Problem with Libraries: The Case of Thomas Marshall's Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera
- Annette Walton 12. The 'Lesser' Durer? Text and Image in Early-modern Broadsheets
- Cristina Neagu 13. 'Fair forms' and 'withered leaves': Rose Bud and the Peculiarities of Periodical Print
- Anna Luker Gilding 14.'Print Culture' and the Perils of Practice
- James Raven Index
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