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Sto caricando le informazioni... Publishing culture and the "reading nation" : German book history in the long nineteenth centurydi Lynne Tatlock
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Over the long nineteenth century, German book publishing experienced an unprecedented boom, outstripping by 1910 all other Western nations. Responding to the spread of literacy, publishers found new marketing methods and recalibrated their relationships to authors. Technical innovations made books for a range of budgets possible. Yearbooks, encyclopedias, and boxed sets also multiplied. A renewed interest in connoisseurship meant that books signified taste and affiliation. While reading could be a group activity, the splintering of the publishing industry into niche markets made it seem an ever-more private and individualistic affair, promising variously self-help, information, Bildung, moral edification, and titillation. The essays in this volume examine what Robert Darnton has termed the "communications circuit": the life-cycle of the book as a convergence of complex cultural, social, and economic phenomena. In examining facets of the lives of select books from the late 1780s to the early 1930s that Germans actually read, the essays present a complex and nuanced picture of writing, publishing, and reading in the shadow of nation building and class formation, and suggest how the analysis of texts and the study of books can inform one another. Contributors: Jennifer Askey, Ulrich Bach, Kirsten Belgum, Matthew Erlin, Jana Mikota, Mary Paddock, Theodore Rippey, Jeffrey Sammons, Lynne Tatlock, Katrin Voelkner, Karin Wurst. Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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cultural optimism to the “crisis of the book” in the Weimar Republic. This collection of eleven essays is grounded in the “history of books,” that discipline
defined by Robert Darnton as “the social and cultural history of communication by print.” The “long nineteenth century” of the title (1780 to 1931) presents a problem of periodization. For David Blackbourn, who coined the phrase, the “long nineteenth century” ends in 1918; this tallies with the views of contemporaries (Stefan Zweig’s “world of yesterday” is the pre-1914 era). This is not insignificant. After all, if the Weimar Republic is not twentieth-century, then what is? The essays by Rippey and Bach are indispensable; but how to frame them?