Dreaming in Books

by Piper, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780226669724
• ISBN10: 0226669726
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing that created the era's "bookish" culture. According to Andrew Piper, romantic writing and romantic writers played a crucial role in adjusting readers to this increasingly international and overflowing literary environment. Learning how to use and to want books occurred through more than the technological, commercial, or legal conditions that made the growing proliferation of books possible; the making of such bibliographic fantasies was importantly a product of the symbolic operations contained within books as well. Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them,Dreaming in Bookstells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a particular sense of urgency during the bookish upheavals of the romantic era. In revisiting the book's rise through the prism of romantic literature, Piper aims to revise our assumptions about romanticism, the medium of the printed book, and, ultimately, the future of the book in our so-called digital age.

Author Biography

Andrew Piper is assistant professor of German studies and associate member of the departments of art history and communications studies at McGill University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Bibliographic Subjects	p. 1
"Hypothesis: All is Leaf"	p. 1
Books: Past, Present, and Future	p. 4
Is Literary History Book History?	p. 8
Bibliographic Romanticism	p. 12
Romanticizing Books	p. 13
Networking	p. 19
Fortresses of the Spirit	p. 19
Rethinking the Book of Everything	p. 21
The Novel as Network: J. W. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Travels	p. 22
The Problem of the Where	p. 26
The Ladies' Pocket-Book and the Excerpt	p. 27
The Ausgabe letzter Hand and a Poetics of the Version	p. 31
Cartography and the Novel	p. 36
The Anatomy of the Book: The Work of Art as Technological Praparat	p. 45
Coda: Faust and the Future	p. 51
Copying	p. 53
Making Classics	p. 53
The Combinatory Spirit and the Collected Edition	p. 55
Producing Corporeal Integrity (Wieland, Byron, Rousseau)	p. 58
Reprinting, Reproducibility, and the Novella Collection	p. 64
E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Serapion Brothers and the Crisis of Originality	p. 67
"The Uncanny Guest" and the Poetics of the Same	p. 70
The Plot of the Returning Husband	p. 72
The Magnetic Doppelganger	p. 74
The Whisper, Noise, and the Acoustics of Relocatability	p. 76
The Collectivity of the Copy	p. 79
Again	p. 81
Processing	p. 85
Printing the Past (Intermediality and the Book I)	p. 85
The Editor's Rise and Fall	p. 87
Immaculate Reception: From Erneuung to Critical Edition (Tieck, Hagen, Lachmann)	p. 89
Walter Scott, the Ballad, and the Book	p. 97
The Borders of Books: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border	p. 101
Narrating Editing: The Historical Novel and the Tales of My Landlord	p. 109
"By Heart" v. "From the Heart" in The Heart of Mid-Lothian	p. 113
Producing Singularity	p. 119
Sharing	p. 121
Assorted Books: The Romantic Miscellany (Almanacs, Taschenbucher, Gift-Books)	p. 121
Common Right v. Copyright	p. 125
Book-Keeping and the Inscription (Intermediality and the Book II)	p. 128
Hollow Texts, Textual Hollows	p. 138
The Problem of the "Of": Washington Irving's "An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron"	p. 143
Sharing Sharing: Poe, Hawthorne, and Mrs. Chamberlain's "Jottings from an Old Journal"	p. 148
Overhearing	p. 153
The Problem of Open Source	p. 153
"Le commerce intellectuel"	p. 160
Women, Translation, Transnation	p. 163
Overheard in Translation: Sophie Mereau, La Princesse de Cleves and the Loose Confession	p. 168
Maria de Zayas's Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and the Betrayal of Writing	p. 173
Boccaccio, Privacy, and Partiality: Fiammetta and Decameron 10.3	p. 177
Adapting	p. 183
Romantic Lines	p. 183
Afterimages: Goethe and the Lily	p. 189
Stems, Spirals, and the New Scientific Graphics	p. 202
Overwriting: Balzac between Script and Scribble	p. 210
Parallels, or Stendhal and the Line of the Self	p. 222
Coda: Sebald's Bibliographic Vanishing Points	p. 230
In Place of an Afterword / Next to the Book	p. 235
Lection/Selection	p. 235
"Book was there, it was there."	p. 236
Besides: Toward a Translational Humanism	p. 239
Beckett's "Eff"	p. 241
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 293
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