ID - 552199 TI - British literature and print culture PY - 2013 SN - 9781843843436 1843843439 9781782041993 1782041990 PB - Cambridge Brewer DB - UniCat KW - Book history KW - English literature KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - 820 KW - 76 <41> KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Books KW - Books and reading KW - Printing KW - History. KW - Criticism, Textual. KW - History KW - 76 <41> Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - 820 Engelse literatuur KW - 820 English literature. Literature in English KW - English literature. Literature in English KW - Literature publishing KW - Literary publishing KW - Literature KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Appraisal of books KW - Choice of books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Reading, Choice of KW - Reading and books KW - Reading habits KW - Reading public KW - Reading KW - Reading interests KW - Reading promotion KW - Library materials KW - Publications KW - Bibliography KW - Cataloging KW - International Standard Book Numbers KW - Publishing KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - Bibliographical matters. KW - Critical and editorial fortunes. KW - Cultural literacy. KW - Engraved media. KW - Literary texts. KW - Print culture genres. KW - Print culture. KW - Publishing practices. KW - Sandro Jung. KW - Seventeenth to nineteenth century. KW - British literature KW - Prints, British. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:552199 AB - The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's 'The Seasons'; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, 'The Athenaeum'. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge. ER -