Books Without Borders (2 Volume Pack)

Volumes 1 and 2: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture/Perspectives from South Asia
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-21717-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies and texts? This two-volume set responds to these questions, using archive-based case studies of print culture from around the world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraser, R.

Hammond, Mary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Fraser& M.Hammond Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History; S.Shep Publishing under the Yoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavorov; M.Gibson 'After the Old; yet as agreeable. to the Newest': British and American Almanacs in the Era of American Independence; L.Santoro From Germany to Brazil: The History of the Fashion Magazine A Estação, an International Enterprise; A.C.Suriani da Silva School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste; R.Fraser Origin and Growth of the 'White Fathers' Press at Bukalasa, Uganda; I.Page A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century; P.M.B.Jurilla Greene, Waugh, and the Lure of Travel; L.Prescott Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series - A Publisher's Memoir; J.Currey Outside the Nation(al): 'South African' Print and Book Cultures and Global ' Text -scapes'; A.van der Vlies Shakespeare's Postcolonial Journey; R.Mooneeram Select Bibliography Index Volume 2: List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Fraser& M.Hammond The 'Book' in India: Orality, Manu-Script, Print (Post)Colonialism; H.Trivedi The Many Worlds of the Vernacular Book: Performance, Literacy and Print in Colonial Bengal; A.Ghosh Publishing and Translating Hafez under Empire; K.Scoular Datta Missionary Writing and the Self-Fashioning of Assamese Cultural Identity in Colonial India: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present; H.Medhi Futures Past: Books, Reading, Culture in the Age of Liberalization; P.Joshi Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India; D.Finkelstein Thacker, Spink and Company: Bookselling and Printing in Mid Nineteenth-Century Calcutta; V.Condie Two Paradigms of Literary Production: The Production, Circulation and Legal Status of Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Indian Railway Library Texts; S.Towheed War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India; R.Fraser Between Bloomsbury, Gandhi and Transcultural Modernities: The Publication and Reception of Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable; S.Nasta Talking to India: The Literary Production and Consumption of South Asian Anglophone Writers in Britain, 1940-55; R.Ranasinha Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghosh in the Literary Marketplace; S.Brouillette Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Volume one:

JAMES CURREY is Chairman of James Currey Publishers in Oxford, UK.

ANA CLAUDIA SURIANI DA SILVA holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, UK.

ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature at the Open University, UK.

MATTHEW GIBSON is Lecturer in Literature at the University of Surrey, UK.

MARY HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK.

PATRICIA MAY B. JURILLA is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines in Diliman.

ROSHNI MOONEERAM is Lecturer in English at the University of Central England, UK.

FATHER IVAN PAGE is general archivist of the Society of Missionaries of Africa in Rome, Italy.

LYNDA PRESCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Staff Tutor in Arts at the Open University, UK.

LILY SANTORO is a PhD candidate in American History at the University of Delaware, USA.

SYDNEY J SHEP is Senior Lecturer in Print& Book Culture at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

ANDREW VAN DER VLIES is Lecturer in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Theory in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Volume two:

SARAH BROUILLETTE is Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

VICTORIA CONDIE has taught Middle English Literature and History of Art for Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education and at Greyfriars Hall. She is currently researching the history of Thacker, Spink and Co.

KITTY SCOULAR DATTA is associate lecturer with the Open University, UK.

ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature at the Open University, UK.

ANINDITA GHOSH is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK.

MARY HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK.
PRIYA JOSHI is Associate Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.

HEMJYOTI MEDHI teaches postgraduate students in the Dept. of English and Foreign Languages at Tezpur University, India.

SUSHEILA NASTA is Professor in Modern Literature at the Open University, UK.

RUVANI RANASINHA is Senior Lecturer in English at King's College London, UK.

SHAFQUAT TOWHEED is Lecturer in Literature and Book History at the Open University, UK.

HARISH TRIVEDI is Professor of English at the University of Delhi, India.