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We love books. We take them to bed with us. We display them on our
bookshelves. We write our names in them. They weigh down our
suitcases when we go on holiday. We take them for granted. But
there's much more to them than meets the eye.; From how books feel
and smell, to burned books, banned books and books that create
nations, The Secret Life of Books is about everything beyond the
words on a page. It's about how books - and readers - have evolved
over time. And about how books still have the power to change our
lives.; 'A real treasure trove for book lovers' ALEXANDER McCALL
SMITH; 'Every sentence is utterly captivating ... probably the most
compulsive text ever penned about what it means to handle and
possess a book' CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL, author of Meetings with
Remarkable Manuscripts; 'Wonderfully insightful' ALBERTO MANGUEL,
author of A History of Reading
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and
entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine"
between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general
introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the
reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of
"Blackwood's Magazine".
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and
entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine"
between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general
introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the
reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of
"Blackwood's Magazine".
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and
entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine"
between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general
introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the
reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of
"Blackwood's Magazine".
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and
entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine"
between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general
introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the
reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of
"Blackwood's Magazine".
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and
entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine"
between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general
introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the
reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of
"Blackwood's Magazine".
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and
entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine"
between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general
introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the
reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of
"Blackwood's Magazine".
We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, but until recently the
history of celebrity has been little discussed. The contributors to
this innovative collection locate the origins of a distinctively
modern kind of celebrity in the Romantic period. Celebrity was from
the beginning a multi-media phenomenon whose cultural pervasiveness
- in literature and the theatre, music and visual culture, fashion
and boxing - overflows modern disciplinary boundaries and requires
attention from scholars with different kinds of expertise. Looking
back to the 1720s and forward to the 1890s, this volume identifies
the people and institutions that made the Romantic period a pivotal
moment in the creation of celebrity. Tracing connections between
celebrity and the period's discourses of heroism, genius,
nationalism, patronage and gender, these essays map the contours of
a cultural apparatus that many of the period's central figures
became implicated in, even as they sought to distance themselves
from it.
This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular
media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the
reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception
history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth--one that moves beyond the
punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow
horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the
material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic
writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history,
memory, and media. Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize
and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows
how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers
incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new
statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging
national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new
generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of
material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic
writing--such as photographs, postcards, books, and
collectibles--that in turn remade the public's understanding of
Romantic writers. Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were
posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the
Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of
appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own
moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of
the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not
reimagined for new audiences.
This book pioneers a branch of periodical studies that is
distinctive to the concerns, contexts and media of Britain's
Romantic age. Eleven chapters by leading scholars showcase the
range of methodological, conceptual and literary-historical
insights to be drawn from just one of the era's landmark literary
periodicals, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Drawing in particular
on the trove of newly digitised content, these chapters model how
careful analyses of the incisive and often inflammatory commentary,
criticism and original literature from Blackwood's first two
decades (1817 37) might inform and expand many of the most vibrant
contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.
For over five hundred years in the West, a particular form of the
book-the printed codex-has been woven into the fabric of our lives.
It has been the default medium for publicly circulating information
and entertainment, and has structured the work, leisure and
religious devotion of countless people. Now, as the cultural
centrality of the printed book is challenged, we are prompted to
reassess its value and its place in the history of media change.
Readable but rooted in current scholarship, this introductory guide
to book history tries not to privilege any one disciplinary
perspective or historical period. Rather, the guide and its
accompanying anthology aim to help the reader to find his or her
bearings within the field, and to provide a map with which to
navigate book history more widely.
`Probably the most compulsive text ever penned about what it means
to handle and possess a book' - Christopher de Hamel, author of
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts; `A real treasure trove for
book lovers' - Alexander McCall Smith; We love books. We take them
to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on
holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our
attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take
them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double
life.; The Secret Life of Books is about everything that isn't just
the words. It's about how books transform us as individuals. It's
about how books - and readers - have evolved over time. And it's
about why, even with the arrival of other media, books still have
the power to change our lives.; In this illuminating account, Tom
Mole looks at everything from binding innovations to binding
errors, to books defaced by lovers, to those imprisoning professors
in their offices, to books in art, to burned books, to the books
that create nations, to those we'll leave behind.; It will change
how you think about books.
This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular
media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the
reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception
history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth—one that moves beyond the
punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow
horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the
material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic
writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history,
memory, and media. Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize
and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows
how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers
incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new
statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging
national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new
generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of
material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic
writing—such as photographs, postcards, books, and
collectibles—that in turn remade the public’s understanding of
Romantic writers. Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were
posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the
Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of
appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own
moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of
the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not
reimagined for new audiences.
Maps a coherent subfield of Romantic periodical studies through
studying the trailblazing Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine An
introduction by two established scholars that articulates a case
for the more sustained, systematic study of Romantic periodicals
and justifies the volume's focus by retracing Blackwood's emergence
as the era's most innovative, influential and controversial
literary magazine. Features eleven essays modelling how the
wide-ranging commentary, reviews and original fiction and verse
published in Blackwood's during its first two decades (1817-37)
might meaningfully inform many of the most vibrant contemporary
discussions surrounding British Romanticism. Contributes to
field-wide bicentenary celebrations and reappraisals both of
Blackwood's and the authors and works - including Shelley's
Frankenstein, Byron's Don Juan and Keats's Poems - whose
reputations the magazine helped shape. This book pioneers a
subfield of Romantic periodical studies, distinct from its
neighbours in adjacent historical periods. Eleven chapters by
leading scholars in the field model the range of methodological,
conceptual and literary-historical insights to be drawn from
careful engagements with one of the age's landmark literary
periodicals, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Engaging with the
research potential unlocked by new digital resources for studying
Romantic periodicals, they argue that the wide-ranging commentary,
reviews and original fiction and verse published in Blackwood's
during its first two decades (1817-37) should inform many of the
most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British
Romanticism.
We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, but until recently the
history of celebrity has been little discussed. The contributors to
this innovative 2009 collection locate the origins of a
distinctively modern kind of celebrity in the Romantic period.
Celebrity was from the beginning a multi-media phenomenon whose
cultural pervasiveness - in literature and the theatre, music and
visual culture, fashion and boxing - overflows modern disciplinary
boundaries and requires attention from scholars with different
kinds of expertise. Looking back to the 1720s and forward to the
1890s, this volume identifies the people and institutions that made
the Romantic period a pivotal moment in the creation of celebrity.
Tracing connections between celebrity and the period's discourses
of heroism, genius, nationalism, patronage and gender, these essays
map the contours of a cultural apparatus that many of the period's
central figures became implicated in, even as they sought to
distance themselves from it.
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