Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge : British Printscape's Innovations, 1688-1832 (Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World)

Ferlier, Louisiane (EDT)/ Miyamoto, Benedicte (EDT)

Brill（2020/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 298 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004433663
• DDC分類 381.45002

Full Description

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the printscape - the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes - to chart the British networks of publishers, printers, copyright-holders, readers and authors. This transdisciplinary volume skilfully recovers innovations and practices in the book trade between 1688 and 1832. It investigates how print circulated information in a multitude of sizes and media, through an evolving framework of transactions. The authority of print is demonstrated by studies of prospectuses, blank forms, periodicals, pamphlets, globes, games and ephemera, uniquely gathered in eleven essays engaging in legal, economic, literary, and historical methodologies. The tight focus on material format reappraises a disorderly market accommodating a widening audience consumption.

Contents

 Acknowledgements

 List of Figures

 Notes on Contributors

1 The Shape of Knowledge

 Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto

Part 1: (In) forming Professional Networks

2 Jobbing Printing in Late Early Modern London: Questions of Variety, Stability and Regularity

 James Raven

3 John Dunton, Bookseller and Author: Market Competition and Restrictive Practices from the Age of Licensing to the Advent of Copyright

 Jeffrey Hopes

4 Entering into Copyright: Author-Publisher Transactions in the Stationers' Company Records

 Rebecca Schoff Curtin

5 Copyright and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

 Isabella Alexander

6 The Vauxhall Affray: Celebrity and Self-Promotion through the Manipulation of Print

 Yvonne Cornish

Part 2: (Per) forming Knowledge in Print

7 At the Ends of the Earth and on the Fringes of Print: Globe Production and Use in Britain, 1650-1800

 Katherine Parker

8 Trading in Trauma: Accidents, Knowledge and Early English Newspapers

 Craig Spence

9 Compositors' Choices in Eighteenth-Century Typography

 James P. Ascher

10 Format and Meaning-Making in Religious Turn-up Books

 Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

11 The Book to Come: Literary Advertising and the Poetics of the Prospectus

 David Duff

 Bibliography of Secondary Sources

 Index of Names

 Index of terms