Overview

This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, ‘high’ and ‘low’. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns. 

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Author:   Evanghelia Stead
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9783319538310

ISBN 10:   3319538314
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   12 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Evanghelia Stead.- Part I : Manuscripts as Cultural Objects.- Chapter 2. From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen - Henrike Lähnemann.- Chapter 3. How to Read the “Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier” (Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a 14th-century Devotional Manuscript-  Henrike Manuwald.- Chapter 4. “Otium et negotium”. Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism - Michael Stolz.- Part II: Prints in Europe .- Chapter 5. The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: “Galeriewerke” and “Histoire Métallique” - Christina Posselt-Kuhli.- Chapter 6. Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning. Printed Images Travelling through Europe - Alberto Milano (†).- Part III: Printed Books: Media, Objects, Uses.- Chapter 7. The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorianand Edwardian Gift Book - Barbara Korte.- Chapter 8. “Pinocchio”: an Adventure Illustrated over More than a Century (1883-2004) - Giorgio Bacci.- Chapter 9. Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler's Works in German and English Editions - Norbert Bachleitner.-  Chapter 10. Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century - Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Epilogue.- Chapter 11. E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of Digital Reading -Stephan Packard.

Reviews

It offers a stimulating interdisciplinary perspective on the function of books and prints, spanning a broad period from medieval manuscript to digital work. ... Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects is a very rich and insightful interdisciplinary approach. (Fabienne Gaspari, Interfaces, Vol. 42, 2019)

This fascinating collection will be of interest to many VPR readers for its emphasis on the methodologies of studying text and image in the broad context of print (and manuscript) culture. It provokes those of us working in the orbit of nineteenth-century periodicals to think more comparatively about our approaches to the media we research. (Mark W. Turner, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 53 (1), 2020) It offers a stimulating interdisciplinary perspective on the function of books and prints, spanning a broad period from medieval manuscript to digital work. ... Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects is a very rich and insightful interdisciplinary approach. (Fabienne Gaspari, Interfaces, Vol. 42, 2019)

Author Information

Evanghelia Stead is Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France and Comparative Literature Professor at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin (UVSQ), France. She runs the TIGRE seminar at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. She has published extensively on print culture, iconography, reception, myth, the fin-de-siècle, and the ‘Thousand and Second Night’ literary tradition.

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