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A literary scholar explains how eighteenth-century novels were manufactured, sold, bought, owned, collected, and read alongside Protestant religious texts. As the novel developed into a mature genre, it had to distinguish itself from these similar-looking books and become what we now call "literature." Literary scholars have explained the rise of the Anglophone novel using a range of tools, from Ian Watt's theories to James Watt's inventions. Contrary to established narratives, When Novels Were Books reveals that the genre beloved of so many readers today was not born secular, national, middle-class, or female. For the first three centuries of their history, novels came into readers' hands primarily as printed sheets ordered into a codex bound along one edge between boards or paper wrappers. Consequently, they shared some formal features of other codices, such as almanacs and Protestant religious books produced by the same printers. Novels are often mistakenly credited for developing a formal feature ("character") that was in fact incubated in religious books. The novel did not emerge all at once: it had to differentiate itself from the goods with which it was in competition. Though it was written for sequential reading, the early novel's main technology for dissemination was the codex, a platform designed for random access. This peculiar circumstance led to the genre's insistence on continuous, cover-to-cover reading even as the "media platform" it used encouraged readers to dip in and out at will and read discontinuously. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this tangled history, showing how the physical format of the book shaped the stories that were fit to print.

Books and reading --- Books and reading. --- Books --- Books. --- Early printed books. --- Fiction --- Fiction. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Printing --- Printing. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- 094:82-31 --- 094 "17" --- 094 <41> --- 655.56 --- Early printed books --- Bibliography --- 655.56 Boekdistributie --- 655.56 Sales organization --- Boekdistributie --- Sales organization --- 094 <41> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 094 "17" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 094:82-31 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Roman --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Roman --- History and criticism --- History

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"Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly—an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books—specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. This is a story about the emotional lives of ideas. As an avowed “theory head,” Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel—silly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuck—Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now."--

Culture. --- Theory (Philosophy) --- Affect. --- Anger. --- Catharine MacKinnon. --- Continental philosophy. --- Critical theory. --- Debate. --- Fantasy. --- Feminism. --- Gender and sexuality. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Jokes. --- Julia Kristeva. --- Lipstick. --- Literary theory. --- Marxism. --- Memes. --- Michel Foucault. --- Postgraduate education. --- Queer. --- Sexuality. --- Stuckness. --- Stupidity. --- Theodor W Adorno. --- gift books.

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"Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly—an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books—specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. This is a story about the emotional lives of ideas. As an avowed “theory head,” Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel—silly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuck—Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now."--

Culture. --- Theory (Philosophy) --- Affect. --- Anger. --- Catharine MacKinnon. --- Continental philosophy. --- Critical theory. --- Debate. --- Fantasy. --- Feminism. --- Gender and sexuality. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Jokes. --- Julia Kristeva. --- Lipstick. --- Literary theory. --- Marxism. --- Memes. --- Michel Foucault. --- Postgraduate education. --- Queer. --- Sexuality. --- Stuckness. --- Stupidity. --- Theodor W Adorno. --- gift books.

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American literature --- Authors and publishers --- Literature publishing --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- History