Across Boundaries : The Book in Culture and Commerce

by Bell, Bill; Bevan, Jonquil; Bennet, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781584560067
• ISBN10: 1584560061
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr

Summary

This series of nine scholarly essays focuses on the book as it helped facilitate commerce and culture over the last five centuries. Leading scholars explore difficult questions arising from the unique relationships that have existed for centuries between economics and literary culture. This work opens with an insight into the kinds of transformation that text undergoes as it crosses and recrosses onto logical boundaries. Several other essays explore the deep and mutually implicating relationship that has existed between economics and literary culture. Co-published with St. Paul's Bibliographies, Ltd.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vi
Preface	viii
Orality Lost: Text and Voice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	1	(28)
Roger Chartier
The Writer's Mirror: Watriquet de Couvin and the Development of the Author-Centred Book	29	(18)
Sylvia Huot
Book Ventures, Cultural Capital and Enduring Reputation in the Italian Renaissance	47	(10)
Lisa Jardine
Patronage across Frontiers: Subscription Publishing in French in Enlightenment Europe	57	(16)
Wallace Kirsop
Commodification and Value: Interactions in Book Traffic to North America, c.1750-1820	73	(18)
James Raven
Beyond Boundaries: Books in the Canadian Northwest	91	(25)
Fiona Black
Crusoe's Books: The Scottish Emigrant Reader in the Nineteenth Century	116	(14)
Bill Bell
Across Boundaries: The History of the Book and National and International Literatures in English	130	(13)
I.R. Willison
George Saintsbury: Criticism and Connoisseurship	143	(12)
Alan Bell
Index	155