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Dear ARLIS Member,
For Book Historians and Culture Historians, Oak Knoll Press, a scholarly
publisher, has published -
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ACROSS BOUNDARIES
The Book in Commerce and Culture
Edited by Bill Bell, Jonquil Bevan and Philip Bennett
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This series of nine scholarly essays focuses on the book as it helped
felicitate commerce and culture over the last five centuries. Leading
scholars explore difficult questions arising from the unique relationships
that have existed for centuries between economics and literary culture.
This work opens with an insight of the kinds of transformation that texts
can be seen to undergo as it crosses and recrosses ontological boundaries.
Orality Lost: Text and Voice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by
Roger Chatier explores the complex manoeuvres involved in the movement
between orality, manuscript, and print. A similar theme is pursued by
Sylvia Huot in The Writer=92s Mirror: Watriquet de Couvin and the =
Development
of the Author-Centered Box, in which she explores the transition of the
manuscript from being a reader-centered item to an author-centered
presentation of works.
Several other essays explore the deep and mutually implicating relationship
that has existed between economics and literary culture. In Book Ventures,
Cultured Capital and Enduring Reputation in the Italian Renaissance by Lisa
Jardine, she examines the role of the book as =93objet d=92 art=94 in =
addition to
its function as repository for text. Wallace Kirsop=92s Patronage Across
Frontiers: Subscription Publishing in French in Enlightenment Europe traces
the dissemination of French literature across the globe in the eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries, showing the extent to which communications
networks and political disruption all helped to shape the intellectual life
of the period. James Raven=92s Commodification and Value: Interactions in
Book Traffic to North America, c. 1750-1820 offers an account of the
sometimes difficult, and often eventful, book-trade links between Britain
and America. Fiona Black=92s Beyond Boundaries: Books in the Canadian
Northwest offers insight on how books served in important ways to create
and sustain new international routes. Bill Bell=92s Cultural Baggage: The
Scottish Emigrant Reader in the Nineteenth Century reveals how cultural
values were often reproduced, and even sometimes modified, through the use
of books and reading in exile. These geo-political relations are set in a
broader context in I.R. Willison=92s Across Boundaries: The History of the
Book and National and International Literatures in English in which he
offers an illuminating survey of the many places where today the history of
the book can be seen to meet other intellectual fields.
The last essay, George Saintsbury: Criticism and Connoisseurship by Alan
Bell shows the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries having a
proliferation in the publication of series, dedicated to biography,
history, and literary criticism, often presented as specimens for
appreciation. Co-published with St. Paul=92s Bibliographies, Ltd.
July 2000, hardcover, 5.5=22x 8.5=22, 176 pages
ISBN 1-58456-006-1 / Order No. 59092-X / Price =2439.95 or =A325.00
You can order this book at http://www.oakknoll.com/pressrel/across.html
Michael Guessford
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Oak Knoll Books (ABAA and ILAB) / Oak Knoll Press / St. Paul's =
Bibliographies
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Phone (302) 328-7232 / Toll-free 1-800-996-2556 / Fax (302) 328-7274
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