Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558490639 ISBN 13 : 9781558490635

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Synopsis

This collection takes as its point of departure the proposition that one can, in fact, tell a book by its cover. The contributors examine the ways in which the material qualities of books--including typography, paper, bindings, layout, and promotional copy--as well as their editing, production, and distribution profoundly affect how they have been read and understood.

The volume includes essays on the publishing history of Melville's early novels, Twain's The Innocents Abroad, the Tauchnitz edition of Hawthornes's The Marble Faun, and Jackson's Romona. Other chapters examine the reception of Dante's works in America, Houghton Mifflin's biographical series, the binding styles of Ticknor and Fields, and the packaging of literature for American high Schools., reviewing a previous edition or volume

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michele Moylan is an independent scholar. Lane Stiles is senior editor at Mid-List Press in Minneapolis and teaches in the composition program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558490639
• ISBN 13: 9781558490635
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Moylan Michele, Stiles Lane
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible