Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

by Leslie Howsam

Book Overview

Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich but sometimes confusing territory, explaining how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802094384
• ISBN13: 9780802094384
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher