Consumerism and prestige : the materiality of literature in the modern age /

This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status. In many cases, for e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Enns, Anthony (Editor ), Metz, Bernhard (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [London.] : Anthem Press, [2022].
Colección:Anthem studies in book history, publishing and print culture.
Temas:
Literature and society.
Literature > Aesthetics > History and criticism.
Books > Social aspects.
Society in literature.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Consumerism and prestige
  • Section one: Material forms and literary
  • Chapter 1. Devotion and consumption: Ludwig Tieck, literary pocketbooks, and the novella craze, Christoph Rauen
  • Chapter 2. Packaging process: Peter Handke's writing for sale, Jacob Haubenreich
  • Chapter 3. Contrasts in the Brazilian book market in the early twenty-first century, Laura Rivas Gagliardi
  • Section two: Material distinctions in popular fiction
  • Chapter 4. Only the "Outward appearance" of Harem? Reading Memoirs of an Arabian princess as a material text, Kate Roy
  • Chapter 5. Hidden codes of love: The materiality of the category romance novel, An Goris
  • Chapter 6. Stephen King's The girl who loved Tom Gordon: A rhetorical reading of the schneekluth edition dust jacket, Thorsten Bothe
  • Section three: Cultural prestige and graphic narratives
  • Chapter 7. The printing of phantasms: The illustrations of nineteenth-century serialized novels and their appropriation in Max Ernst's collage novel Une semaine de bonté, Philipp Venghaus
  • Chapter 8. From Penny Dreadful to graphic novel: Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's genealogy of comics in The league of extraordinary gentlemen, Jeff Thoss
  • Chapter 9. Comic books versus graphic novels: Commodity forms and cultural prestige, Anthony Enns
  • Section four: Electronic publishing and reading practices
  • Chapter 10. The book and the e-book: Footnotes, margins, and typography in The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, Bernhard Metz
  • Chapter 11. Ebook collections as an opportunity to recover unpublished or forgotten texts, Laura Hatry
  • Chapter 12. How much does the symbolic capital of books cost? Operationalizing the prestige of book in the digital age, Pasqualina Sorrentino and Massimo Salgaro

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