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Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this explosion in interest in 'scientific romance', that informs today's global science fiction culture, manifests the specific historical exigences of the revolutions in publishing and distribution technology. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and other science fiction writers embody in their art the advances in material culture that mobilize, reproduce and distribute with new rapidity, determining the cultural logic of twentieth-century science fiction in the process.
82-311.9 --- 655.56 --- Science fiction --- Publishers and publishing --- Science in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Science --- Science stories --- Fiction --- Future, The, in literature --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- 655.56 Boekdistributie --- 655.56 Sales organization --- Boekdistributie --- Sales organization --- 82-311.9 Science fiction --- History and criticism --- History --- Publishing --- E-books
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"This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), and related archives, it charts the dissemination of literature and reading tastes across Europe in the years leading up to the French revolution. In the process, it recasts our understanding of late 18th-century print culture and the contours of the enlightenment. The fruit of a widely acclaimed five year database project, the STN database, it is also a story of pioneering efforts to apply the latest digital technology and GIS mapping techniques to traditional historical and bibliographic problems. Although written to serve as a standalone study, this book is ideally complemented by its companion volume, Mark Curran's The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment, which offers a radical reinterpretation of the structure and practices of the European book trade. The STN database is now recognised as a cutting-edge digital project of global significance. Robert Darnton has called it "a prodigious accomplishment and a joy to use" while Jeremy Popkin adds, "No one working in the field of French Enlightenment studies ... can afford to ignore the rich mine of data that Simon Burrows and his collaborators have made accessible, in an eminently usable form, and the new possibilities it opens up for scholars." The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I and II offer a roadmap of that data and what it can show us."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Société typographique de Neuchâtel. --- Imprimerie de la Société typographique (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) --- S.T.N. (Société typographique (Neuchâtel,) --- Société typographique di Neuchâtel --- Société typographique (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) --- STN (Société typographique (Neuchâtel,) --- Book history --- History of Europe --- anno 1700-1799 --- 655.56 --- 655.4 <44> --- 655.42 <44> --- 339:094 --- 094 "17" --- 094 "17" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 339:094 Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- 655.42 <44> Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- 655.42 <44> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Frankrijk --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Frankrijk --- 655.4 <44> Publishing and bookselling in general--Frankrijk --- 655.4 <44> Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- Publishing and bookselling in general--Frankrijk --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- 655.56 Boekdistributie --- 655.56 Sales organization --- Boekdistributie --- Sales organization --- Book industries and trade --- French --- History --- Books and reading --- Société typographique de Neuchâtel --- History.
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