Author: John Trusler
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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A List of Books, Published by the Rev. Dr. Trusler, at the Literary-Press, No.62, Wardour-Street, Soho. 1790
Author: John Trusler
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Knowing Books
Author: Christina Lupton
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production. In Knowing Books Lupton examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources, including sermons, graffiti, philosophical texts, and magazines, which illustrate the range and character of mid-century experiments with words announcing their status as physical objects. Books that "know" their own presence on the page and in the reader's hand become, in Lupton's account, tantalizing objects whose entertainment value competes with that of realist narrative. Knowing Books introduces these mid-eighteenth-century works as part of a long history of self-conscious texts being greeted as fashionable objects. Poststructuralist and Marxist approaches to literature celebrate the consciousness of writing and economic production as belonging to revolutionary understandings of the world, but authors of the period under Lupton's gaze expose the facts of mediation without being revolutionary. On the contrary, their explication of economic and material processes shores up their claim to material autonomy and economic success. Lupton uses media theory and close reading to suggest the desire of eighteenth-century readers to attribute sentience to technologies and objects that entertain them. Rather than a historical study of print technology, Knowing Books offers a humanist interpretation of the will to cede agency to media. This horizon of theoretical engagement makes Knowing Books at once an account of the least studied decades of the eighteenth century and a work of relevance for those interested in new attitudes toward media in the twenty-first.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production. In Knowing Books Lupton examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources, including sermons, graffiti, philosophical texts, and magazines, which illustrate the range and character of mid-century experiments with words announcing their status as physical objects. Books that "know" their own presence on the page and in the reader's hand become, in Lupton's account, tantalizing objects whose entertainment value competes with that of realist narrative. Knowing Books introduces these mid-eighteenth-century works as part of a long history of self-conscious texts being greeted as fashionable objects. Poststructuralist and Marxist approaches to literature celebrate the consciousness of writing and economic production as belonging to revolutionary understandings of the world, but authors of the period under Lupton's gaze expose the facts of mediation without being revolutionary. On the contrary, their explication of economic and material processes shores up their claim to material autonomy and economic success. Lupton uses media theory and close reading to suggest the desire of eighteenth-century readers to attribute sentience to technologies and objects that entertain them. Rather than a historical study of print technology, Knowing Books offers a humanist interpretation of the will to cede agency to media. This horizon of theoretical engagement makes Knowing Books at once an account of the least studied decades of the eighteenth century and a work of relevance for those interested in new attitudes toward media in the twenty-first.
The Bewick Collector. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of T. and J. Bewick; Including Cuts, in Various States, for Books and Pamphlets, Private Gentlemen, Public Companies, Exhibitions, ... and Other Miscellaneous Purposes, and Wood Blocks. With an Appendix of Portraits, Autographs ... The Whole Described from the Originals ... and Illustrated with a Hundred and Twelve Cuts. L.P.
Author: Thomas HUGO (the Bewick Collector.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Romantic Readers
Author: H. J. Jackson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129491
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. This period experienced a great increase in readership and a boom in publishing. H. J. Jackson shows how readers used their books for work, for socializing, and for leaving messages to posterity. She draws on the annotations of Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and other celebrities as well as those of little known and unknown writers to discover how people were reading and what this can tell us about literature, social history, and the history of the book.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129491
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. This period experienced a great increase in readership and a boom in publishing. H. J. Jackson shows how readers used their books for work, for socializing, and for leaving messages to posterity. She draws on the annotations of Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and other celebrities as well as those of little known and unknown writers to discover how people were reading and what this can tell us about literature, social history, and the history of the book.
Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Joris Van Eijnatten
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900417155X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900417155X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The London Adviser and Guide
Author: John Trusler
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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A Compendium of Useful Knowledge ... Second edition
Author: John TRUSLER
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Bewick Collector
Author: Thomas Hugo
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Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Bewick Collector
Author: Thomas Hugo
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752579862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866. Including Cuts, in various States, for Books and Pamphlets, private Gentlemen, public Companies, Exhibitions, Races, Newspapers, Shop Cards, Invoice Heads, Bar Bills, Coal Certificates, Broadsides, and other miscellaneous Purposes, and Wood Blocks.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752579862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866. Including Cuts, in various States, for Books and Pamphlets, private Gentlemen, public Companies, Exhibitions, Races, Newspapers, Shop Cards, Invoice Heads, Bar Bills, Coal Certificates, Broadsides, and other miscellaneous Purposes, and Wood Blocks.