Dreaming in Books - The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Piper teaches German and European literature at McGill University. Klappentext Examining novels! critical editions! gift books! translations! and illustrated volumes! as well as the communities who made them! this title tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. "Andrew Piper has written a book about the nineteenth century's romance with books, looking at the many ways in which the physical character of a book and its illustrations shaped a reader's avidity. Piper's scholarly history is fueled by a bookish ardor--you can feel the love that went into his footnotes. This writer's thinking comes straight out of the long afternoons he must have spent in the library, pulling book after book off the shelves, experiencing the power not only of words but also of bindings, typefaces, and illustrations."--Jed Perl "New Republic " Zusammenfassung Examining novels! critical editions! gift books! translations! and illustrated volumes! as well as the communities who made them! this title tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Piper, Piper Andrew
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2013
• EAN: 9780226103518
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10351-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Publishing and book trade