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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"book history"”.
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Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel
This dissertation uses the methodological lens of book history to re-examine the role of the literary market in the construction of modernist authorship in American culture. I examine how four American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner attempted to …
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The paratextual, translational, and print-cultural mediation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts in Britain (1751-1785)
… adopted in studies of translation, reception, book history, and print culture. The dissertation is divided into four chapters, each of which will examine a stage in the history of the mediation of Rousseau’s First Discourse in the second half of the eighteenth century.
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Of Her Substance: Dress and Fecundity in Renaissance Painting
… dress objects, and sixteenth-century costume books to examine how early modern fashion dictated the shape and scope of women’s bodies. It intertwines feminism and gender studies, fashion history and theory, art history, and book history.
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Remaking early poetic tradition: publication and reception of ancient-style poetry anthologies in late imperial China
… at the intersections of literary studies, book history, and print culture, this dissertation studies how literary anthologies were shaped by and shaped literary tradition in late imperial China from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. Specifically, by combining approaches from …
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A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann
This thesis critically examines The Great Book of Ireland /Leabhar Mór na hÉireann (GBOI), a late-twentieth-century single-volume vellum manuscript created in Dublin between 1989 and 1993. Addressing a gap in both public and critical awareness of this modern manuscript, the thesis situates the GBOI …
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The bookbinder and historical invisibility: bookbinding and the Staffordshire book trade 1750-1850
Provincial bookbinding has been largely overlooked as a subject for study. The social history of bookbinding has been neglected in the historiography of the book trade, confining it in narrow bibliographical studies. This thesis investigates and challenges this situation, and the orthodox view of …
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Picturing the Text: Illustrated Editions of Marlitt, Raabe, and Storm in the Age of the Industrial Book: (1857-90)
… the word "illustration" often evokes children's books, in late nineteenth-century Germany illustrated literature was a serious, albeit embattled, literary mode for adults. Informed by book history and image-text studies, I argue that book illustration provides insights into how literary works …
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Reading in Zion: Book Cultures of Mormon Youth, 1869–1890
… Mormons recognized a potential ally and enemy in books, newspapers, and other reading materials, which they believed could dramatically shape young people for good or for ill depending on the quality of the material. This thesis argues these older Mormons borrowed many elements from other US …
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From Tempera to Ink to Code: The Other Media of Orthodox Iconography
… icons’ unexplored, other media: cheap print, the book and digital media. Its interdisciplinary, cross-medial approach draws upon the fields of media studies, art history, art practice, religious studies, history and bibliography to establish an alternative way of viewing and understanding the icon …
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Here comes the bookmobile: Public culture and the shape of belonging
This dissertation explores the peculiar history of the bookmobile in the United States from the close of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In the process, it insists that a spatial politics of shared information was key to constructing and contesting community in …
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Reading between the lines, 1839-1939 : popular narratives of the Afghan frontier
… Using the quantitative methodologies of book history, my thesis sheds light on the public responses to three successive Anglo-Afghan wars, and the reception of the writings to which these gave rise. By this means, I trace the rise and fall of readers' interest in Afghanistan through six …
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Interactions in the text : girls’ magazines and their readers, 1955–2000
… use a combination of theoretical approaches from book history, feminist theory, and critical discourse analysis, and draw primary data both from magazine texts and from survey responses from adults sharing their recollections of reading teen magazines. I use case studies covering romance, sex, …
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Uneasy reading : resistance and revelation in Willem Boshoff's "Verskanste Openbaring"
… conceptual artist Willem Boshoff retyped the Book of Revelation onto a single sheet of paper; reinserting the same page into his typewriter, layering the language upon itself. This project sets out to "read" the product of Boshoff's performance - a rectangle of superimposed text entitled …
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The Journey Home: A Root-metaphor Analysis of the 1840 Mormon Manchester Hymn Book
… compiled, printed, and began distributing a hymnbook that eventually would become the basis for all subsequent LDS hymnbooks published in English in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This thesis, as a contribution to the literature of communication, book history, and hymnology, as well as …
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A history of the Kano Book Market, c. 1920-2020
… both empirical and conceptual tools from book history, this dissertation documents the history of the Kano Book Market (KBM) in northern Nigeria. Its sources are drawn from archives, private and public records, oral histories, and "printed manuscripts" (religious tracts retaining …
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"Alla Greca"? Matter and Meaning of Greek-style bookbindings in Renaissance Venice
… and appropriation of the materiality of Greek books in Renaissance Venice and Europe. The thesis is partly based on a census of the over 1000 known surviving Greek-style bindings made in Europe. Of these, over 300 have been examined in person, as have primary sources on their production and …
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Book-Burning and the Banning of Books and Authors in England, 1526 - 1558: A Sixteenth-Century Fire-Library
My project draws on the disciplines of literary history, history, and religious studies, with the field of book history at their nexus, to examine books and authors designated as heretical (and sometimes seditious) by England’s clergy, monarchs, and Privy Councils between the years 1526 and 1558. …
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"The Geography of Letters": Space and the Little Magazine in Bombay, 1960 - 1980
… Indian writers. Deploying a mixed methodology of book history, literary-historical analysis, data visualisation, and close reading, I argue that the Bombay little inaugurates unique interventions in questions of space, mapping, and belonging in a newly independent India. Alongside the primary …
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Reading The Self: Print Technologies, Authorship, and Identity Formation in the Eighteenth Century
… of the eighteenth century, the growth of the book trades depended upon a series of technological advances. With each innovation, new forms of printed material, such as newspapers, essays, novels, and biographies became available and in many cases, extremely popular. Cultural perceptions of …
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Reading habits in Scotland circa 1750-1820
… and borrowing registers, and evidence for book ownership, such as after-death inventories and records of booksellers. To aid the analysis, a three-part subject classification system is introduced in this thesis to differentiate between different categories of reading - religious, …
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