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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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