Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere sheds valuable light upon the depth and nature of this impact, greatly illuminating the world of the Romantic bookman: his texts, activities, and communities. (Daniel Norman, Notes and Queries, Vol. 66 (1), March, 2019)
Ferris work represents an important development in our understanding of reading culture beyond the high-minded criticism of the Edinburgh journals. Bringing the bookman to the fore of our understanding of book culture, Ferris work, I am sure, will offer an engaging point of departure for future studies of reading culture during the Romantic period. (James M. Morris, The BARS Review, Issue 48, Autumn, 2016)
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Bookish Outliers
PART I: URBAN ASSOCIATIONS
1. Unmooring the Literary Word
2. Typographical Consciousness and the Dissolution of Authorship
3. Printing Clubs and the Question of the Archive
PART II: BEYOND THE METROPOLIS
4. On the Borders of the Reading Public
5. A Provincial Itinerary: Reading the Journals of John Marsh
Notes
Bibliography
Index