Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects 1st Edition by Evanghelia Stead 3319538327 9783319538327

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ISBN-10 :  3319538327 

ISBN-13 :  9783319538327

Author: Evanghelia Stead 

This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, ‘high’ and ‘low’. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns. 

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Manuscripts as Cultural Objects
2. From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen
3. How to Read the “Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier” (Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a Fourteenth-Century Devotional Manuscript
4. “Otium et Negotium”: Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism
Part II. Prints in Europe
5. The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: Galeriewerke and Histoires Métalliques
6. Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning: Printed Images Travelling Through Europe
Part III. Printed Books: Media, Objects, Uses
7. The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Gift Books
8.  Pinocchio: An Adventure Illustrated Over More Than a Century (1883–2005)
9. Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler’s Works in German and English Editions
10. Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century
Part IV. Epilogue
11. E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On Some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of

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