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Informationen zum Autor Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book in the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies. He is General Editor of the new multivolume History of Oxford University Press and editor of the journal Publishing History . His publications include Literary Cultures and the Material Book (2007) and Some Patterns and Trends in British Publishing, 1800-1919 (1994). Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and is co-editor of the journal Book History . His publications include The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), and British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1965 (1991). Klappentext From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book.* Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts* Written by a group of expert contributors* Covers topical debates, such as the nature of censorship and the future of the book Zusammenfassung From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose Part I Methods and Approaches 7 1 Why Bibliography Matters 9 T. H. Howard-Hill 2 What is Textual Scholarship? 21 David Greetham 3 The Uses of Quantifi cation 33 Alexis Weedon 4 Readers: Books and Biography 50 Stephen Colclough Part II The History of the Material Text 63 The World before the Codex 65 5 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia 67 Eleanor Robson 6 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome 84 Cornelia Roemer The Book beyond the West 95 7 China 97 J. S. Edgren 8 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam 111 Peter Kornicki 9 South Asia 126 Graham Shaw 10 Latin America 138 Hortensia Calvo 11 The Hebraic Book 153 Emile G. L. Schrijver 12 The Islamic Book 165 Michael Albin The Codex in the West 400-2000 177 13 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100 179 Michelle P. Brown 14 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100-1500 194 M. T. Clanchy 15 The Gutenberg Revolutions 207 Lotte Hellinga 16 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century 220 David J. Shaw 17 The British Book Market 1600-1800 232 John Feather 18 Print and Public in Europe 1600-1800 247 Rietje van Vliet 19 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800 259 Russell L. Martin III 20 The Industrialization of the Book 1800-1970 273 Rob Banham 21 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890 291 Simon Eliot 22 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800-1890 303 Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin 23 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890 315 Robert A. Gross 24 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970 329 Da...
