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This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.
List of contents
Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Consumerism and Prestige; Section One. MATERIAL FORMS AND LITERARYPUBLISHING, Chapter 1. Devotion and Consumption: Ludwig Tieck, Literary Pocketbooks, and the Novella Craze, Christoph Rauen; Chapter 2. Packaging Process: Peter Handke's Writing for Sale; 3 Jacob Haubenreich, Chapter 3. Contrasts in the Brazilian Book Market in the Early Twenty-First Century , Laura Rivas Gagliardi; Section Two. MATERIAL DISTINCTIONS INPOPULAR FICTION; Chapter 4. Only the "Outward Appearance" of a Harem? , eading Memoirs of an Arabian Princess as a Material Text, Kate Roy; Chapter 5 Hidden Codes of Love: The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel, An Goris; Chapter 6. Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Rhetorical Reading of the Schneekluth Edition Dust Jackets, Thorsten Bothe; Section Three. CULTURAL PRESTIGE ANDGRAPHIC NARRATIVES; Chapter 7. The Printing of Phantasms: The Illustrations of Nineteenth-Century Serialized Novels and their Appropriation in Max Ernst's Collage Novel Une semaine de bonté, Philipp Venghaus; Chapter 8. From Penny Dreadful to Graphic Novel: Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Genealogy of Comics in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Jeff Thoss; Chapter 9. Comic Books versus Graphic Novels: Commodity Forms and Cultural Prestige, Anthony Enns; Section Four. ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ANDREADING PRACTICES; Chapter 10. The Book and the E-Book: Footnotes, Margins, and Typography in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Bernhard Metz; Chapter 11. E-Book Collections as an Opportunity to Recover Unpublished or Forgotten Texts, Laura Hatry; Chapter 12. How Much Does the Symbolic Capital of Books Cost? Operationalizing the Prestige of Books in the Digital Age, Pasqualina Sorrentino and Massimo Salgaro; Index
About the author
Anthony Enns is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.
Bernhard Metz is an associate director of the SNF-funded project "Online-Edition der Rezensionen und Briefe Albrecht von Hallers" at the University of Bern.
