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    Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
    Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
    Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
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    Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age

    By Andrew Piper

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    At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing that created the era’s “bookish” culture. According to Andrew Piper, romantic writing and romantic writers played a crucial role in adjusting readers to this increasingly international and overflowing literary environment. Learning how to use and to want books occurred through more than the technological, commercial, or legal conditions that made the growing proliferation of books possible; the making of such bibliographic fantasies was importantly a product of the symbolic operations contained within books as well.

                Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book’s identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a particular sense of urgency during the bookish upheavals of the romantic era. In revisiting the book’s rise through the prism of romantic literature, Piper aims to revise our assumptions about romanticism, the medium of the printed book, and, ultimately, the future of the book in our so-called digital age.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateAug 22, 2011
    ISBN9780226669748
    Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age

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