Author and Printer in Victorian England

by Allan C. Dooley

Book Overview

Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the text would read-author, compositor, printer's reader, or publisher? In a unique fusion of literary history and printing history, Allan C. Dooley...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813929318
• ISBN13: 9780813929316
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"