Peter Carey

Keyvan Allahyari

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey's literary career from his emergence in the Australian literary scene as a contribut... Lees meer

The Contemporary Small Press

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible addresses the contemporary literary small press in the US and UK from the perspective of a ran... Lees meer

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted ... Lees meer

Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

Lara Atkin, Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis, Nathan Garvey

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast... Lees meer

Conrad's Reading

Helen Chambers

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, co... Lees meer

The Global Histories of Books

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exc... Lees meer

Bookshelves in the Age of the Covid-19 Pandemic

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides the first detailed scholarly investigation of the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves (and the... Lees meer

Marginal Notes

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins offers an account of literary marginalia based on original research from a range of unique arch... Lees meer

Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early mod... Lees meer

Reading and the First World War

Shafquat Towheed, Edmund King

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preference... Lees meer

Approaches to the History of Written Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices deter... Lees meer

The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World

Christine Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular in the post-war era at the convergen... Lees meer

The Transatlantic Circulation of Novels Between Europe and Brazil, 1789-1914

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national terr... Lees meer

Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade

Anna Lanfranchi

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• The 19th-century copyright revolution gave authors and translators powerful tools over the use of their works. It encouraged publishers to form networ... Lees meer

Bookshelves in the Age of the Covid-19 Pandemic

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides the first detailed scholarly investigation of the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves (and the... Lees meer

Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book explores Victorian readers' consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-... Lees meer

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

Iris Parush

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in ninetee... Lees meer

Gender and Prestige in Literature

Alexandra Dane

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Gender and Prestige in Literature: Contemporary Australian Book Culture explores the relationship between gender, power, reputation and book publishin... Lees meer

Conrad's Reading

Helen Chambers

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, co... Lees meer

Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe

Daniel Bellingradt, Bernd-Christian Otto

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Uses an eighteenth century German case-study to examine the clandestine, and sometimes illegal, practices of the early modern European book trade Addr... Lees meer

Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, s... Lees meer

Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe

Daniel Bellingradt, Bernd-Christian Otto

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• Uses an eighteenth century German case-study to examine the clandestine, and sometimes illegal, practices of the early modern European book trade Addr... Lees meer

Book Markets in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and distribution in this period re... Lees meer

Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

Millicent Weber

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Book History
• - Sociological approach fuses audience research with theoretical analysis of contemporary cultural policy initiatives- Until now the behaviour and exp... Lees meer