A Companion to the History of the Book by Eliot, Simon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series Literature and Culture Title Page Copyright Page List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction

References

PART I: Methods and Approaches

1: Why Bibliography Matters

Enumerative Bibliography Analytical Bibliography Descriptive Bibliography Textual Bibliography Historical Bibliography Bibliography and Modern Book History References and Further Reading

2: What is Textual Scholarship?

References and Further Reading

3: The Uses of Quantification

Common Sources for the Quantitative Study of the Book Trade Statistical Methods Used Common Limitations to Quantitative Analysis Understanding Trends with Time Series Reading Variables Geographical Distribution References and Further Reading

4: Readers: Books and Biography

References and Further Reading

PART II: The History of the Material Text

The World before the Codex

5: The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia

Books of Clay? Cuneiform Culture School Books in Bronze Age Sumer? Books as Cultural Capital in Iron Age Assyria Books and Professional Identity in Hellenistic Babylonia Conclusions: Re-reading Tablets in the Light of Book History References and Further Reading

6: The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome

References and Further Reading

The Book beyond the West

7: China

References and Further Reading

8: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

Japan Korea Vietnam References and Further Reading

9: South Asia

South Asia’s Manuscript Culture The Invention of Writing The Impact of Print Publishing from Independence to Today References and Further Reading

10: Latin America

References and Further Reading

11: The Hebraic Book

Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts The Decoration of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Hebrew Scripts The Hebrew Printed Book Post-medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Book Trade and Bibliophilism Conclusion References and Further Reading

12: The Islamic Book

References and Further Reading

The Codex in the West 400–2000

13: The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100

References and Further Reading

14: Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500

Scribes and their Status Books in Vernacular Languages Books of Theology and Law Making Personal Books Learning to Read References and Further Reading

15: The Gutenberg Revolutions

The Technique: (1) Manufacturing Movable Type The Printing House The Spread of Printing after the Invention Fifteenth-century Books The Trade in Printed Books References and Further Reading

16: The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century

Incunables and Post-incunables: Continuity and Innovation Scholar Printers Religion Regulation Geography: The Continued Spread of Printing Centers The Book Trades Customers Look to the Future References and Further Reading

17: The British Book Market 1600–1800

The World of the Book Authors: The Primary Producers of the Book Trade Growing the Market The Distribution of Books: The Circuit Completed Buyers and Readers: The End and the Beginning References and Further Reading

18: Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800

International Book Trade The Expansion of the Public Sphere The Emancipation of Writers Constraints on Books References and Further Reading

19: North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800

References and Further Reading

20: The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970

Papermaking New Presses Stereotyping and Electrotyping Bookbinding Hot Metal Lithography Color Photography The Mass-market Paperback The Shape of Things to Come References and Further Reading

21: From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800–1890

The 1800s and 1890s Communications and Literacy Literary Property and its Consequences Patterns of Production Cheap Books and Part-works Lending and Selling Other Bestsellers The World We Have Lost References and Further Reading

22: A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890

A Second Revolution of the Book? Industrial Literature Guidebooks, Practical Books, and Mass-market Dictionaries The Internationalization of the Novel References and Further Reading

23: Building a National Literature: The United States 1800–1890

References and Further Reading

24: The Globalization of the Book 1800–1970

Copyright and Technological Innovation Global Book-trade Expansion Exporting the Industrialized Book-trade Model Literary Agents Globalization and the Twentieth Century References and Further Reading

25: Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890–1970

References and Further Reading

26: Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890–1970

References and Further Reading

27: Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970

The Business of Publishing The Rise of the American Author A New Generation of Publishers The Impact of War The Paperback Engulf & Devour References and Further Reading

28: Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970–2000

References and Further Reading

29: The Global Market 1970–2000: Producers

Conglomeratization Content Convergence Conclusion References and Further Reading

30: The Global Market 1970–2000: Consumers

The Global Market Globalized Content and the Consumer Market Research References and Further Reading

PART III: Beyond the Book

31: Periodicals and Periodicity

References and Further Reading

32: The Importance of Ephemera

References and Further Reading

33: The New Textual Technologies

Notes References and Further Reading

PART IV: Issues

34: New Histories of Literacy

The Trouble with “Literacy” A Short History of the History of Literacy The Ethics and Politics of Literacy History Finding Literacy in All the Wrong Places The Poetics of Literacy References and Further Reading

35: Some Non-textual Uses of Books

Egypt, Greece, and Rome The Ritual Function of Christian Bibles and Service Books Divination Talismanic Use of Books and Texts “Associational Copies”: The Book as Relic Taking Oaths upon the Book Books that Boast Non-textual Uses of Libraries Books and Ornament Books as Interior Decoration References and Further Reading

36: The Book as Art

References and Further Reading

37: Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity

References and Further Reading

38: Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property

References and Further Reading

39: Libraries and the Invention of Information

References and Further Reading

Coda

40: Does the Book Have a Future?

The Digital Revolution Society and Culture Free Culture The Book’s Digital Future The Resilience of Print References and Further Reading

Index

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