Literary Cultures And The Material Book

摘要

In recent years, the history of the book has re-emerged like a phoenix out of the perceived ashes of historical bibliography. One trigger for this has been the growing recognition of cultural history, another the fascinating relevance to scholarship of studying relationships between literary and social culture, on the one hand, and the history of the book (the text as well as the archive and the library, private and public), on the other hand. The British Library series of studies in the history of the book (of which this is one) acknowledges this, as has the work of the three editors of the book (Eliot an editor of a parallel Blackwell companion to the history of the book, 2007, Nash and editor of a study of the culture of collected editions, 2003 and Willison a contributor to The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, a work currently in progress).