Geographies of the Book

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-26793-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book, though far less thoroughly explored. Yet research has increasingly pointed to the spatial dimensions of book history, to the transformation of texts as they are made and moved from place to place, from authors to readers and within different communities and cultures of reception. Widespread recognition of the significance of place, of the effects of movement over space and of the importance of location to the making and reception of print culture has been a feature of recent book history work, and draws in many instances upon studies within the history of science as well as geography. 'Geographies of the Book' explores the complex relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically) and the ways in which they are received.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Withers, Charles W. J.

Ogborn, Miles

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Book Geography, Book History; I: Geographies Of Production; 1: The Amusements of Posterity: Print Against Empire in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal; 2: Steam and the Landscape of Knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s; 3: Construing the Spaces of Print Culture: Book Historians' Visualization Preferences; II: Geographies Of Circulation; 4: ‘Per le Piaze & Sopra il Ponte': Reconstructing the Geography of Popular Print in Sixteenth-Century Venice; 5: The Counting-House Library: Creating Mercantile Knowledge in the Age of Sail; 6: Printing Posterity: Editing Varenius and the Construction of Geography's History; III: Geographies Of Reception; 7: Geography, Enlightenment and the Book: Authorship and Audience in Mungo Park's African Texts; 8: Books, Geography and Denmark's Colonial Undertaking in West Africa, 1790–1850; 9: Volney's Tableau, Medical Geography and Books on the Frontier; 10: Reading the Messy Reception of Influences of Geographic Environment (1911)

Über Autor(innen)

Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London, UK and Charles W.J. Withers, University of Edinburgh, UK