Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects Evanghelia Stead

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects By Evanghelia Stead

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects by Evanghelia Stead


$172.39
Condition - New
Only 2 left

Summary

This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view.

An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers.

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects Summary

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects by 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 Reviews

This fascinating collection will be of interest to many VPR readers for its emphasis on the methodologies of studying text and image in the broad context of print (and manuscript) culture. It provokes those of us working in the orbit of nineteenth-century periodicals to think more comparatively about our approaches to the media we research. (Mark W. Turner, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 53 (1), 2020)

Evanghelia Steads Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects will be welcomed by Book Studies scholars for its modeling of a material approach to reading that crosses chronologies, geographies, and media. A truly interdisciplinary collection, there is much here to provoke, challenge, and inspire future studies. (Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Quaerendo, Vol. 49, 2019)

It offers a stimulating interdisciplinary perspective on the function of books and prints, spanning a broad period from medieval manuscript to digital work. Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects is a very rich and insightful interdisciplinary approach. (Fabienne Gaspari, Interfaces, Vol. 42, 2019)

About Evanghelia Stead

Evanghelia Stead is Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France and Comparative Literature Professor at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin (UVSQ), France.She runs the TIGRE seminar at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. She has published extensively on print culture, iconography, reception, myth, the fin-de-siecle, and the Thousand and Second Night literary tradition.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction:Evanghelia Stead.-Part I : Manuscripts as Cultural Objects.- Chapter 2.From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen -Henrike Lahnemann.- Chapter 3. How to Read the Andachtsbuchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier (Montpellier, BU Medecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a 14th-century Devotional Manuscript-Henrike Manuwald.- Chapter 4. Otium et negotium. Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism -Michael Stolz.-Part II: Prints in Europe .- Chapter 5.The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: Galeriewerke and Histoire Metallique -Christina Posselt-Kuhli.- Chapter 6. Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning. Printed Images Travelling through Europe -Alberto Milano ().-Part III: Printed Books: Media, Objects, Uses.- Chapter 7. The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorianand Edwardian Gift Book -Barbara Korte.- Chapter 8. Pinocchio: an Adventure Illustrated over More than a Century (1883-2004) -Giorgio Bacci.- Chapter 9. Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler's Works in German and English Editions -Norbert Bachleitner.- Chapter 10. Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century -Corinna Norrick-Ruhl.-Epilogue.-Chapter 11. E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of Digital Reading-Stephan Packard.

Additional information

NPB9783319538310
9783319538310
3319538314
Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects by Evanghelia Stead
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-01-12
317
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects