Bookish Histories

Bookish Histories
Author: I. Ferris
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230244807

This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.