Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects

'This volume is both original and useful. Whilst each of the essays in and of itself offers new research, the volume taken as a whole is a substantial contribution to book, image, and media history. It deliberately disrupts the idea of a unified field, demonstrating how both books and prints (s...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:New Directions in Book History
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ISBN:9783319538327
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Evanghelia Stead
  • Part I : Manuscripts as Cultural Objects
  • Chapter 2. From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen - Henrike Lähnemann
  • Chapter 3. How to Read the "Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier" (Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a 14th-century Devotional Manuscript- Henrike Manuwald
  • Chapter 4. "Otium et negotium". Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism - Michael Stolz
  • Part II: Prints in Europe
  • Chapter 5. The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: "Galeriewerke" and "Histoire Métallique" - Christina Posselt-Kuhli
  • Chapter 6. Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning. Printed Images Travelling through Europe - Alberto Milano (†)
  • Part III: Printed Books: Media, Objects, Uses
  • Chapter 7. The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Gift Book - Barbara Korte
  • Chapter 8. "Pinocchio": an Adventure Illustrated over More than a Century (1883-2004) - Giorgio Bacci
  • Chapter 9. Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler's Works in German and English Editions - Norbert Bachleitner
  • Chapter 10. Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century - Corinna Norrick-Rühl
  • Epilogue
  • Chapter 11. E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of Digital Reading -Stephan Packard.