Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

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  • Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture by Leslie Howsam
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    Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. One person found this helpful. It is important to emphasize that Howsam's book is an orientation , not an introduction , to book history.

    Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

    Rather than introduce key concepts or subjects of investigation in book history, this book represents one historian's attempt to trace the development and current status of an eclectic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. Early in her career Howsam discovered that despite the significant contribution historians had made to the study of the book, book history was not recognized as a subspecialty in history programs, nor did it exist as a separate field.

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    In the past two decades much has changed. Book history is now a recognized subspecialty in many history and English programs and exists as a stand-alone degree program at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This recognition does not diminish the need to map the field.

    Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture by Leslie Howsam

    Since the early s, when book history began to take as a field of study distinct from bibliography, there have been several attempts to orient the field. Adams and Nicolas Barker, Peter D. McDonald, and James A. Secord that situate book history on the disciplinary terrain. Adams and Nicolas Barker and the book-centred model , Peter D. McDonald's fleshing out of Darnton's model in his book "British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice " in which he showed numerous social groups form their own communications circuit, and James A. Secord in "Victorian Sensation: The E Useful introduction to recent developments in book history and notable thinkers, such as historian Robert Darnton and the communications circuit model , bibliographers Thomas R.

    The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'" showed how printed works were appropriated and used in debate, politics, and identity formation.

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    Howsam noted that history, literature and bibliography offers three distinct approaches to book history. Historians tend to focus on agency and power, literary writers focus on texts and criticisms, while bibliographers focus on the documents and the books as objects. Dec 25, Cacology rated it liked it. Contains some factual errors that I caught, so I worry about the ones that I might have missed. Overview of disciplinary boundaries in book and print culture with many footnotes and bibliography.

    Focuses on theory and history. Three major branches are bibliography, history, and literary theory.

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    Argues that many people, including librarians, can do work in book history. Aug 30, Janice Liedl rated it really liked it Shelves: Fantastic balance of scholarship ON scholarship about books with an interesting set of prescriptions about where such studies will go in future. Shanna rated it really liked it Sep 30, Margaret rated it liked it Dec 06, Tero rated it liked it Aug 01, Meredith rated it liked it Jan 08, Michael Hattem rated it liked it Jan 06, Nicole rated it liked it Apr 15, Allison Smyth rated it really liked it Jan 18, Jeannette rated it it was amazing Sep 09, Andreea rated it really liked it Jan 31, Sae Kitamura rated it it was amazing Apr 06, Isidro Rivera rated it it was amazing Aug 28, Christy Mccarter rated it liked it Jan 22, Robert Campbell rated it liked it May 23, Mareika rated it it was amazing Jan 01, Carrie rated it really liked it Oct 23,