Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere

by Ina Ferris

This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137367598
• ISBN13: 9781137367594
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"