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Overview"""As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation.""-From the Introduction What is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer situates a book copy within the methods of book history, Joseph A. Dane contends, it is the known set of assumptions which govern the discipline that bibliographic arguments privilege, repeat, or challenge. ""Book history,"" he writes, ""is us."" In Blind Impressions, Dane reexamines the field of material book history by questioning its most basic assumptions and definitions. How is print defined? What are the limits of printing history? What constitutes evidence? His concluding section takes form as a series of short studies in theme and variation, considering such matters as two-color printing, the composing stick used by hand-press printers, the bibliographical status of book fragments, and the function of scholarly illustration in the Digital Age. Meticulously detailed, deeply learned, and often contrarian, Blind Impressions is a bracing critique of the way scholars define and solve problems." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph A. DanePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780812245493ISBN 10: 0812245490 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 22 October 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction PART I. WHAT IS PRINT? Chapter 1. Paleography Versus Typography Chapter 2. ""Ca. 1800"": What's in a Date? Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the Mind PART II. ON THE MAKING OF LISTS Chapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of ""Typographical Value"" Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550 Chapter 6. An Editorial Propaedeutic PART III. IRONIES OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION: THEME AND VARIATION Playing Bibliography III.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of Lists III.2. Meditation on the Composing Stick III.3. The Red and the Black III.4. Fragments III.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital World III.6. Art of the Mind Notes Principal Sources Cited Index Acknowledgments"ReviewsAs bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains... Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation. -From the Introduction Dane not only enlivens his text with the refreshing polemical cast with which bibliographers from Housman to Greg and Tanselle have become deservedly well known, but also spices his discussion with arresting contemporary references... The historical range, critical acuity and cumulative evidence from various sources, genres and media make the books a rich resource on any bibliographer's shelves. -SHARP News Dane not only enlivens his text with the refreshing polemical cast with which bibliographers from Housman to Greg and Tanselle have become deservedly well known, but also spices his discussion with arresting contemporary references. ...the historical range, critical acuity and cumulative evidence from various sources, genres and media make the books a rich resource on any bibliographer's shelves. -SHARP News As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains... Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation. -From the Introduction Author InformationJoseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books include Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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