British Literature and Print Culture

The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles.

List of contents

Introduction - Sandro Jung
Tracing a Genealogy of Oroonoko Editions, 1688-2002 - Laura Runge
The Pilgrim's Progress, Print Culture and the Dissenting Tradition - Nathalie Colle-Bak
Printing for the Author in the Long Eighteenth Century - Alan Downie
Robert Burns's Interleaved Scots Musical Museum: A Case-Study in the Vagaries of Editors and Owners - Gerard Carruthers
Packaging, Design and Colour: From Fine-Printed to Small-Format Editions of Thomson's The Seasons, 1793-1802 - Sandro Jung
Print Illustrations and the Cultural Materialism of Scott's Waverley Novels - Peter Garside
Beyond Usefulness and Ephemerality: The Discursive Almanac, 1828-60 - Brian Maidment
The Last Years of a Victorian Monument: The Athenaeum after Maccoll - Marysa Demoor

About the author

Sandro Jung

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Carruthers, Alan Downie, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura Runge
• Assisted by: Sandro Jung (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2013
• EAN: 9781843843436
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-343-6
• No. of pages: 239
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Essays and Studies; Essays and Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches