Institutions of literature, 1700-1900 : the development of literary culture and production
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Institutions of literature, 1700-1900 : the development of literary culture and production
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700-1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves, institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: literature and institutions Jon Mee and Matthew Sangster
- 1. Knowledge exchange in the seventeenth century: from the third university to the royal society Willy Maley
- 2. Supporting mutual benevolence: libraries, civic benefaction and the spalding gentlemen's society, 1709-1755 Dustin Frazier Wood
- 3. Institutions without addresses David A. Brewer
- 4. Eighteenth-century Musenhof courts as bridges and brokers for cultural networks and social reform Nicole Pohl
- 5. Becoming institutional: the case of the Anacreontic society Ian Newman
- 6. Circulating libraries as institutional creators of genres Anne H. Stevens
- 7. Lecturing networks and cultural institutions, 1740-1830 Jon Klancher
- 8. Catalogues as instituting genres of the nineteenth-century museum: the two hunterians Dahlia Porter
- 9. Charles lamb and the British museum as an institution of literature Gillian Russell
- 10. A disruptive and dangerous education and the wealth of the nation: the early mechanics' institutes John Gardner
- 11. The ladies contribution: women and the mechanics institute on the goldfields of Victoria Sarah Comyn
- 12. Letters must increase: reading and writing the post office as a literary institution Karin Koehler
- 13. Networks, nodes and beacons: cultural institutions in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia Porscha Fermanis
- 14. The book as medium Sarah Crofton.
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