Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stead, Evanghelia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Directions in Book History
• Θέματα: Books-History.; Civilization-History.; History of the Book.; Cultural History.

'This volume is both original and useful. Whilst each of the essays in and of itself offers new research, the volume taken as a whole is a substantial contribution to book, image, and media history. It deliberately disrupts the idea of a unified field, demonstrating how both books and prints (s...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Evanghelia Stead
• Part I : Manuscripts as Cultural Objects
• Chapter 2. From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen - Henrike Lähnemann
• Chapter 3. How to Read the "Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier" (Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a 14th-century Devotional Manuscript- Henrike Manuwald
• Chapter 4. "Otium et negotium". Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism - Michael Stolz
• Part II: Prints in Europe
• Chapter 5. The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: "Galeriewerke" and "Histoire Métallique" - Christina Posselt-Kuhli
• Chapter 6. Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning. Printed Images Travelling through Europe - Alberto Milano (†)
• Part III: Printed Books: Media, Objects, Uses
• Chapter 7. The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Gift Book - Barbara Korte
• Chapter 8. "Pinocchio": an Adventure Illustrated over More than a Century (1883-2004) - Giorgio Bacci
• Chapter 9. Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler's Works in German and English Editions - Norbert Bachleitner
• Chapter 10. Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century - Corinna Norrick-Rühl
• Epilogue
• Chapter 11. E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of Digital Reading -Stephan Packard.