The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and ...sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades.In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850s.American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights.
Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as
inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel
Foucault famously theorized "the author function" in his 1969 essay
"What Is an Author?" ...proposing that the existence of the author
limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at
work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question
and undo the corporate "editorial/industrial complex." Marking an
end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The
Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and
publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to
rethink what we read and how.
The Editor Function follows avant-garde American
literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to
compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the
publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through
archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing
lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and
analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing
formations, from Cid Corman's Origin and Nathaniel
Mackey's Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e),
Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing
initiatives in the postwar United States.
The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly
mundane tasks of these editors-routine editorial correspondence,
line editing, list formation-emerge visions of new, better worlds
and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.
Gutenberg in Shanghai Reed, Christopher A
Gutenberg in Shanghai,
c2004, 2007, 2004
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Relying on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, this history demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique ...form of print capitalism that would have a far-reaching and irreversible influence on Chinese culture. In the mid-1910s, what historians call the Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism began, accompanied by a technological transformation that included the drastic expansion of China's Gutenberg revolution. This is a vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity that refutes views that China's technological development was slowed by culture or that Chinese modernity was mere cultural continuity.
Cet ouvrage dirigé à quatre mains par des maîtresses de conférences de l'Université Paris Cité, travaillant dans la filière Métiers du livre de l’IUT Paris - Rives de Seine, propose les contributions ...d’universitaires et de professionnels de renom. Il est le fruit de nombreux échanges avec les acteurs du monde des livres : éditeurs, libraires et bibliothécaires. Il offrira aux étudiants comme aux professionnels des analyses sur l’évolution rapide des métiers du livre et les réalités de terrain, dont les évolutions sectorielles et leurs transformations avec l’arrivée du numérique ont généré l’émergence de nouvelles compétences (créatives, digitales, commerciales) et opportunités, tant éditoriales qu’économiques.
The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the economisation of ...academic publishing as profit drives many academic publishers and other providers of information; an increase in the self-observation of science by means of publication, citation and utility-based indicators; and the medialisation of science as its observation by the mass media intensifies. Previously, these developments have only been dealt with individually in the literature and by science-policy actors. The Future of Scholarly Publishing documents the materials and results of an interdisciplinary working group commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) to analyse the future of scholarly publishing and to make recommendations on how to respond to the challenges posed by these developments. As per the working group’s intention, the focus was mainly on the sciences and humanities in Germany. However, in the course of the work it became clear that the issues discussed by the group are equally relevant for academic publishing in other countries. As such, this book will contribute to the transfer of ideas and perspectives, and allow for mutual learning about the current and future state of scientific publishing in different settings.
When readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves-what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also ...discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830.This period experienced a great increase in readership and a boom in publishing. H. J. Jackson shows how readers used their books for work, for socializing, and for leaving messages to posterity. She draws on the annotations of Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and other celebrities as well as those of little known and unknown writers to discover how people were reading and what this can tell us about literature, social history, and the history of the book.
"Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs. Drawing on detailed analysis of the ...literature and current practice in OA, as well as data collected in detailed interviews with practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, the book discusses what constitutes “theory”, and how the role of theory is perceived by both theorists and practitioners. Exploring the ways theory and practice have interacted in the development of OA, the authors discuss what this reveals about the nature of the OA phenomenon itself and the theory-practice relationship. Open Access in Theory and Practice contributes to a better understanding of OA and, as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers, and students working in the fields of information science, publishing studies, science communication, higher education policy, business, and economics. The book also makes an important contribution to the debate of the relationship between theory and practice in information science, and more widely across different fields of the social sciences and humanities."
Making Shakespeare is a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history, whilst also raising questions about what a Shakespeare play actually is. Tiffany Stern reveals how ...London, the theatre, the actors and the way in which the plays were written and printed all affect the 'Shakespeare' that we now read. Concentrating on the instability and fluidity of Shakespeare's texts, her book discusses what happened to a manuscript between its first composition, its performance on stage and its printing, and identifies traces of the production system in the plays we read. She argues that the versions of Shakespeare that have come down to us have inevitably been formed by the contexts from which they emerged; being shaped by, for example, the way actors received and responded to their lines, the props and music used in the theatre, or the continual revision of plays by the playhouses and printers. Allowing a fuller understanding of the texts we read and perform, Making Shakespeare is the perfect introduction to issues of stage and page. A refreshingly clear, accessible read, this book will allow even those with no expert knowledge to begin to contextualize Shakespeare's plays for themselves, in ways both old and new.
La collection « Espace Nord », qui rassemble plus de 360 titres du patrimoine littéraire francophone belge, est un important outil de valorisation des auteurs belges auprès du monde scolaire et du ...public. Jan Baetens discute avec Tanguy Habrand, assistant à l’Université de Liège et responsable de la collection « Espace Nord », du travail de médiation littéraire accompli à travers cette collection exceptionnelle.
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