Research Catalog

Title

Book practices & textual itineraries : tracing the contours of literary works / general editors, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Monica Latham & David Ten Eyck.

Publication

Nancy : Presses universitaires de Nancy, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collé-Bak, Nathalie.
• Latham, Monica
• Ten Eyck, David.
• Collé-Bak, Nathalie
• Ten Eyck, David

Description

211 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The essays in this volume draw upon recent debates in the fields of textual scholarship and book history to argue for a more flexible understanding of what constitutes a literary work. Each contributor, while working from different perspectives, draws attention to the impossibility of establishing any clearly delineated space within which such works can be said to exist. AII of the essays engage with cases that challenge our assumptions about how literary works should be defined, be it through re-edition in varying forms, in varying contexts, with varying paratextual features; through character migration between texts, and even between media; or through the presence of multiple authorised versions. The title of the volume, 'Tracing the Contours of Literary Works', acknowledges the continuing relevance of distinctions between literary and non-literary works while simultaneously drawing attention to the care that critics must exercise in defining the objects of his or her study. It suggests that the outlines we trace around the space 'belonging' to any given literary work must always be provisional, fluid, perhaps multiple, since no work can be reduced to a single, authoritative textual state"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone

Uniform Title

Collection Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone

Alternative Title

Book practices and textual itineraries

Subject

• Books and reading > English-speaking countries
• Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Commonwealth literature (English) > Criticism, Textual
• Textual scholarship Book history Literary work

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The novel as book : Mark Z. Danielewski's recuperation of the codex format / Grzegorz Maziarczyk -- Combe and Rowlandson's Dr. Syntax, Pierce Egan's Life in London, and the illustrated character as a form of literary property / Susan Pickford -- Book, work and text : from material book history to new literary theories / Simon Frost -- The lives of a book : The conjure woman through the ages / Cécile Cottenet -- On reading King Lear / Lukas Erne -- A story of gains and losses : the early editions of Smollett's Roderick random / Pierre Degott -- The unfortunate life of Robert Chester's Loves martyr / Boris Drenkov -- The Pilgrim's progresses of Bunyan's publishers and illustrators, or the role of illustrations in the life of a text/book / Nathalie Collé-Bak -- The visual 'life' of James Thomson's The seasons, 1730-c. 1800 / Sandro Jung.

ISBN

• 9782814300767
• 2814300768

OCLC

• 750163158
• SCSB-12895335

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library