Old Books and New Histories

Old Books and New Histories
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-13 : 9781442691407
ISBN-10 : 1442691409
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Book Synopsis Old Books and New Histories by : Leslie Howsam

Download or read book Old Books and New Histories written by Leslie Howsam and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-09-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich but sometimes confusing territory, explaining how different scholarly approaches to what may appear to be the same entity can lead to divergent questions and contradictory answers. Rather than introduce the events and turning points in the history of book culture, or debates among its theorists, Leslie Howsam uses an array of books and articles to offer an orientation to the field in terms of disciplinary boundaries and interdisciplinary tensions. Howsam's analysis maps studies of book and print culture onto the disciplinary structure of the North American and European academic world. Old Books and New Histories is also an engaged statement of the historical perspective of the book. In the final analysis, the lesson of studies in book and print culture is that texts change, books are mutable, and readers ultimately make of books what they need.


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