Companion to the History of the Book (eBook)

Simon Eliot, Jonathan Rose (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 2. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-01821-6 (ISBN)

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The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded 

The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book's history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography.

The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today's burgeoning electronic devices. The expert contributions delve into such fascinating topics as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more.

Containing a wealth of illustrative examples and case studies to dramatize the exciting history of the book, the text is designed for academics, students and anyone interested in the subject.

Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies.

Jonathan Rose is 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. 

Rezensionen

"The strengths of A Companion to the History of the Book include its greater depth of coverage both in number of topics and in the deeper coverage each chapter provides, and its more current overview of scholarship and scholarly trends."
--Eileen M. Bentsen, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2021, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2021), pp. 135-137

"Everything from technology and law to bibliography, textual criticism, palaeography, linguistics, art, and economics inform and are informed by the book's history, and A Companion to the History of the Book encompasses them all." (RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, Vol 21, No 1 (2020))

"Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." (CHOICE, May 2020)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: book binding • Books Archives and Paperwork • Buch • Literature • Literaturwissenschaft • <p>Guide to the book’s history • Manuscript Culture 1100–1500 • New Histories of Literacy • Palaeography and Codicology • Printing books to 1970 • Readers Books and Biography • Textual Scholarship • the book in China • the book in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam • the book in Latin America • the book in South Asia • The Book Trade in The Sixteenth Century</p> • The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia • The Gutenberg Revolutions • The Hebraic Book • The Manuscript Book before 1100 • The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome • The Uses of Quantification in books • Type, Typography, and the Typographer • Use of Paper in books
• ISBN-10: 1-119-01821-8 / 1119018218
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-01821-6 / 9781119018216