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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.

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Author:   E. Patten ,  Jason McElligott
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2014
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9781349490554

ISBN 10:   1349490555
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Contributors 1. The Perils of Print Culture: An Introduction; Jason McElligott and Eve Patten 2. The Practice of Book and Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings; Leslie Howsam 3. 'Pretious treasures made cheap'? The Real Cost of Reading Roman History in Early Modern England; Freyja Cox Jensen 4. Early Printed Liturgical Books and the Modern Resources that Describe Them: The Case of the Hereford Breviary, 1505; Matthew Cheung Salisbury 5. 'Lacking Ware, withal': Finding Sir James Ware Among the Many Incarnations of his Histories; Mark Williams 6. Balancing Theoretical Models and Local Studies: the Case of William St. Clair and Copyright in Ireland; Sarah Crider Arndt 7. The Impact of Print in Ireland, 1680-1800: Problems and Perils; T.C. Barnard 8. Signs of the Times? Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-century Secret Histories; Rebecca Bullard 9. Dangerous Detours: The Perils of Victorian Periodicals in the Digitized Age; Margery Masterson 10. Nineteenth-century Print on the Move: A Perilous Study of Trans-local Migration and Print Skills Transfer; David Finkelstein 11. The Problem with Libraries: The Case of Thomas Marshall's Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera; Annette Walton 12. The 'Lesser' Dürer? Text and Image in Early-modern Broadsheets; Cristina Neagu 13. 'Fair forms' and 'withered leaves': Rose Bud and the Peculiarities of Periodical Print; Anna Luker Gilding 14.'Print Culture' and the Perils of Practice; James Raven Index

Reviews

This volume is forward-facing in its assessment of various `perils' in print culture ... . The volume is a good starting point for students of book history and print culture. Equally, it is useful for established scholars who wish to remind themselves of the sorts of topical questions being asked in this field of enquiry. (Natalie C. J. Aldred, SHARP News, sharpweb.org, August, 2016)

This volume is forward-facing in its assessment of various 'perils' in print culture ... . The volume is a good starting point for students of book history and print culture. Equally, it is useful for established scholars who wish to remind themselves of the sorts of topical questions being asked in this field of enquiry. (Natalie C. J. Aldred, SHARP News, sharpweb.org, August, 2016)

Author Information

Toby Barnard, Hertford College, Oxford, UK Rebecca Bullard, University of Reading, UK Matthew Cheung Salisbury, University College, Oxford, UK Freyja Cox Jensen, University of Exeter, UK Sarah Crider Arndt, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland David Finkelstein, University of Dundee, UK Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor, Canada Anna Luker Gilding, independent scholar, UK Margery Masterson, University of Bristol, UK Cristina Neagu, Christ Church Library, Oxford, UK James Raven, University of Essex, UK Annette Walton, Linacre College, Oxford, UK

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