The Book Unbound
Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, 1750–1850
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-59998-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-59998-6 (ISBN)
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Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts, and serial publications, this monograph changes understandings of the book as a medium through case studies on Walpole's private press publications, Blake's printmaker-poet's book making, and Dickens's serial fiction.
How does our understanding of Romantic literature change when we shift the focus from bound books to unbound forms? Assumptions about the book as a bound object have isolated literature from overlapping material cultures of book making, reading, viewing, and collecting. The Book Unbound reconstructs a Romantic textual condition of unbound forms in which the book acted as a repository for open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts, and serial publications, ca. 1750–1850. Three case studies trace changing material practices of book making before and after publisher's bindings marked a turning point from a culture of unbound books. Through the restricted coterie gathered around Horace Walpole's private press at Strawberry Hill, William Blake's printmaker-poet's book making, and Charles Dickens's serialized part publications, this monograph changes understandings of the book as a medium.
How does our understanding of Romantic literature change when we shift the focus from bound books to unbound forms? Assumptions about the book as a bound object have isolated literature from overlapping material cultures of book making, reading, viewing, and collecting. The Book Unbound reconstructs a Romantic textual condition of unbound forms in which the book acted as a repository for open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts, and serial publications, ca. 1750–1850. Three case studies trace changing material practices of book making before and after publisher's bindings marked a turning point from a culture of unbound books. Through the restricted coterie gathered around Horace Walpole's private press at Strawberry Hill, William Blake's printmaker-poet's book making, and Charles Dickens's serialized part publications, this monograph changes understandings of the book as a medium.
Luisa Calè writes about the visual and material cultures of reading, viewing, and collecting in the Romantic period, from literary galleries to extra-illustrations, altered books, periodical, and print culture. She is Exhibitions Editor for Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Associate Editor at Word & Image. She works at Birkbeck, University of London.
Introduction: material cultures of reading and collecting, 1750–1850; 1. Walpole's book parts; 2. Blake's scattered leaves: composition, disorder, and the dynamics of the book unbound; 3. Dickens unwrapped; 4. Coda: unbound, disbound; Bibliography.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-009-59998-4 / 1009599984 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-59998-6 / 9781009599986 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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