A Companion to the History of the Book

Copyright © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to the History of the Book

Editor(s): Simon Eliot, Jonathan Rose

Published Online: 25 FEB 2008

Print ISBN: 9781405127653

Online ISBN: 9780470690949

DOI: 10.1002/9780470690949

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From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book.

  • Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts
  • Written by a group of expert contributors
  • Covers topical debates, such as the nature of censorship and the future of the book

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xvi)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–6)

      Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose

  3. Part I: Methods and Approaches

    1. Chapter 1

      Why Bibliography Matters (pages 7–20)

      T. H. Howard-Hill

    2. Chapter 2

      What is Textual Scholarship? (pages 21–32)

      David Greetham

    3. Chapter 3

      The Uses of Quantification (pages 33–49)

      Alexis Weedon

    4. Chapter 4

      Readers: Books and Biography (pages 50–62)

      Stephen Colclough

  4. Part II: The History of the Material Text - The World before the Codex

    1. Chapter 5

      The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia (pages 63–83)

      Eleanor Robson

    2. Chapter 6

      The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome (pages 84–94)

      Cornelia Roemer

  5. Part II: The History of the Material Text - The Book beyond the West

    1. Chapter 7

      China (pages 95–110)

      J. S. Edgren

    2. Chapter 8

      Japan, Korea, and Vietnam (pages 111–126)

      Peter Kornicki

    3. Chapter 9

      South Asia (pages 126–137)

      Graham Shaw

    4. Chapter 10

      Latin America (pages 138–152)

      Hortensia Calvo

    5. Chapter 11

      The Hebraic Book (pages 153–164)

      Emile G. L. Schrijver

    6. Chapter 12

      The Islamic Book (pages 165–176)

      Michael Albin

  6. Part II: The History of the Material Text - The Codex in the West 400‒2000

    1. Chapter 13

      The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100 (pages 177–193)

      Michelle P. Brown

    2. Chapter 14

      Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500 (pages 194–206)

      M. T. Clanchy

    3. Chapter 15

      The Gutenberg Revolutions (pages 207–219)

      Lotte Hellinga

    4. Chapter 16

      The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century (pages 220–231)

      David J. Shaw

    5. Chapter 17

      The British Book Market 1600–1800 (pages 232–246)

      John Feather

    6. Chapter 18

      Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800 (pages 247–258)

      Rietje van Vliet

    7. Chapter 19

      North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800 (pages 259–272)

      Russell L. Martin

    8. Chapter 20

      The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970 (pages 273–290)

      Rob Banham

    9. Chapter 21

      From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800–1890 (pages 291–302)

      Simon Eliot

    10. Chapter 22

      A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890 (pages 303–314)

      Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Franqise Cachin

    11. Chapter 23

      Building a National Literature: The United States 1800–1890 (pages 315–328)

      Robert A. Gross

    12. Chapter 24

      The Globalization of the Book 1800–1970 (pages 329–340)

      David Finkelstein

    13. Chapter 25

      Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890–1970 (pages 341–353)

      Jonathan Rose

    14. Chapter 26

      Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890–1970 (pages 354–367)

      Adriaan van der Weel

    15. Chapter 27

      Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970 (pages 368–380)

      Beth Luey

    16. Chapter 28

      Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970–2000 (pages 381–394)

      Paul Luna

    17. Chapter 29

      The Global Market 1970–2000: Producers (pages 395–405)

      Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

    18. Chapter 30

      The Global Market 1970–2000: Consumers (pages 406–418)

      Claire Squires

  7. Part III: Beyond the Book

    1. Chapter 31

      Periodicals and Periodicity (pages 419–433)

      James Wald

    2. Chapter 32

      The Importance of Ephemera (pages 434–450)

      Martin Andrews

    3. Chapter 33

      The New Textual Technologies (pages 451–463)

      Charles Chadwyck-Healey

  8. Part IV: Issues

    1. Chapter 34

      New Histories of Literacy (pages 465–479)

      Patricia Crain

    2. Chapter 35

      Some Non-Textual Uses of Books (pages 480–492)

      Rowan Watson

    3. Chapter 36

      The Book as Art (pages 493–507)

      Megan L. Benton

    4. Chapter 37

      Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity (pages 508–519)

      Deana Heath

    5. Chapter 38

      Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property (pages 520–530)

      John Feather

    6. Chapter 39

      Libraries and the Invention of Information (pages 531–543)

      Wayne A. Wiegand

  9. Part V: Coda

    1. Chapter 40

      Does the Book Have a Future? (pages 545–559)

      Angus Phillips

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      Index (pages 560–599)

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