ISBN:
9783319513348
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (333 pages)
Series Statement:
New Directions in Book History
Series Statement:
New Directions in Book History Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Boehmer, Elleke The Global Histories of Books : Methods and Practices
DDC:
306.488
Keywords:
Civilization-History
;
Civilization-History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Global Histories of Books -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Planned Pathways and Unexpected Routes -- The Global and Empire -- From the Monumental to the Mundane -- Languages of the Book -- Sociologies of the Global Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I Colonial Networks -- London's Geographic Knowledge Network and the Anson Account (1748) -- Introduction -- Historiographical Overview -- The British Geographic Knowledge Network: Interdependent, yet Informal -- A Book that Crossed Borders: The Anson Expedition, Publications and the 1748 Account in its Various Forms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- The Other Empire: Australian Books and American Publishers in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Australian Literature and the British Book Trade -- From the Colonies to the States -- The Romance of Anglo-Saxondom -- Travellers' Tales -- 'The Great Fiction Boom' -- American Fortunes: Kingsley, 'Tasma' and Boldrewood -- Conclusion: The 'Antipodean Romance' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Reading by Chance in a World of Wandering Texts -- Introduction -- Old Friends and Familiar Voices: The Communal versus Solitary Reading of Dickens -- Strange Meetings: The Finder, the Forerunner, and the Anomalous Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Published Sources -- Part II Global Genres -- 'Read! Learn!': Grobalisation and (G)localisation in Caribbean Textbook Publishing -- Grobalisation, (G)localisation and Textbook Publishing -- Grobalisation and Examining the World -- (G)localisation, Examining and Textbooks in the Anglophone Caribbean -- Heinemann Educational Books and the gestation of the Caribbean Writers Series -- Coda -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Governing by the Book: Mediterranean Travel and Sanitary Prophylaxis in the Nineteenth-Century
Abstract:
Common Laws and Personal Rules: Complementarity and Difference -- Crossing the Sea: Self-Prophylaxis On-Board -- Transit in Port Cities: Navigating Urban Insalubriousness -- Coastal Retreats and 'Social Quarantine': At the Frontier of Maritime Salubrity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival -- Contemporary Published -- Karl Baedeker -- Murray -- Other -- Secondary -- The Circle of Knowledge: Radical Commensurability and the Deaf Textbook -- Introduction -- Deafening the Textbook -- Radical Commensurability: Missionary Chinese and Baker's Circle -- Quiet Agency: Japanese Readers between Sound and Silence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archives and Special Collections -- Print Sources -- Part III Reading Relationships -- 'Bringing Spring to Sahbai's Rose-Garden': Persian Printing in North India after 1857 -- Imam Bakhsh Sahbai: Life, Works and Relationships -- The Publication of the Kullīyāt: Forging Fresh Relationships through Print -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Reading The Discovery of India in the Library of an Australian Prime Minister -- Mapping Menzies' Library -- Nehru and the Imperialists -- Searching for an Anti-imperial Trajectory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV Cultural Translation -- Bustānī's Iliad and Imperialism in the Middle East -- Introduction -- The Symbolic Significance of Homer -- Hypercanonising Homer -- Dismantling the European Homer -- Bustānī's Iliad and Cultural Imperialism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 'The Narcissism of Small Differences': Plagiarism in South African Letters -- Introduction: Stephen Watson, Antjie Krog and 'The Annals of Plagiarism' -- Watson on Plagiarism: A 'Local, Extra-Literary' Tradition -- Return of the Moon: Making It New -- The Annals of Plagiarism: The kukummi in Afrikaans Literary Tradition and the Colonial Archive -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
Abstract:
The Fear of Solitude: How Marketing Makes Real Magic -- Gabriel García Márquez: Strategies, Relationships and Translations -- Keri Hulme: Local Authenticity, Literary Prizes and Luck -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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