Bookish Histories

BARBARA M. BENEDICT, Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, USA SIMON DURING, Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, USA THOMAS KEYMER, Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada DEIDRE LYNCH, Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada JON KLANCHER, Associate Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA MICHAEL MACOVSKI, Associate Professor at Georgetown University, USA WILLIAM R. MCKELVY, Associate Professor of English at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA ANDREW PIPER, Assistant Professor of German Studies at McGill University, Canada LEAH PRICE, Professor of English at Harvard University, USA BETTY A. SCHELLENBERG, Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada

This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.