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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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PART ONE What is book history? |
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What is the History of Books? |
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9 | (18) |
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Bibliography, Pure Bibliography, and Literary Studies |
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27 | (8) |
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The Book as an Expressive Form |
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35 | (12) |
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A New Model for the Study of the Book |
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47 | (19) |
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The Socialization of Texts |
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66 | (8) |
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Early Modern Print Culture: Assessing the Models |
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74 | (13) |
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Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader |
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87 | (12) |
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The Field of Cultural Production |
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PART TWO The impact of print |
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123 | (2) |
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Text, Script, and Media: New Observations on Scribal Activity in the Ancient Near East |
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125 | (9) |
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Orality and Literacy: Writing Restructures Consciousness |
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134 | (13) |
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147 | (10) |
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The Practical Impact of Writing |
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157 | (25) |
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The Body of the Book: The Media Transition from Manuscript to Print |
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182 | (8) |
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The Indian Ecumene: An Indigenous Public Sphere |
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190 | (15) |
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The Sociology of a Text: Orality, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand |
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205 | (27) |
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Defining the Initial Shift: Some Features of Print Culture |
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232 | (23) |
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The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book |
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255 | (22) |
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PART THREE Texts and authors |
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275 | (2) |
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277 | (4) |
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281 | (11) |
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Oral Religio-Political Activism and Textual Production |
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292 | (16) |
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Literary Property Determined |
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308 | (10) |
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Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture |
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318 | (9) |
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Cultures of the Commonplace |
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327 | (10) |
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Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation |
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337 | (8) |
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The Victorian Novelists: Who Were They? |
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345 | (9) |
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When is a Book Not a Book? |
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354 | (15) |
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369 | (8) |
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Toward International Cooperation: The Literary Editing of H.D. and Bryher |
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377 | (14) |
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PART FOUR Texts and readers |
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389 | (2) |
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Interaction Between Text and Reader |
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391 | (6) |
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Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England |
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397 | (19) |
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416 | (8) |
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Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences |
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424 | (16) |
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The English Common Reader: From Caxton to the Eighteenth Century |
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440 | (10) |
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Interpreting the Variorum |
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450 | (9) |
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies |
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459 | (10) |
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A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire |
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PART FIVE The future of the book |
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The Digital Subject and Cultural Theory |
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486 | (8) |
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Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book |
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494 | (15) |
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Farewell to the Information Age |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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