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The Photographer as Autobiographer
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ISBN: 9783031088551 9783031088544 9783031088568 9783031088575 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader’s response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused. Arnaud Schmitt is a Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He has published two books and multiple articles on autofiction and autobiography.


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The rise and fall of the Victorian three-volume novel
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ISBN: 9783030319267 3030319261 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s. Troy J. Bassett is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian book history and literature and is the creator of the digital humanities project At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901.


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Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean : facing Tunis
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ISBN: 9783031050794 9783031050787 9783031050800 9783031050817 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Palgrave Macmillan

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In this book, Baskins places Muley Hassan, the ruler of Tunis, center-stage in an analysis of the evolution and production of portraiture and the representation of Hafsid-Hapsburg-Ottoman confrontation. Portraits capture...the multi-faceted struggle for prestige, patronage, and sovereignty in Mediterranean courts. -Palmira Brummett, Professor Emerita, History, University of Tennessee, USA Baskins' interdisciplinary book opens new directions for the study of portraits and Habsburg visual propaganda about North African campaigns. She also breaks with traditional studies of the 'Muslim other' and presents a case study of fluid permeability and alterity in the Mediterranean. -Borja Franco Llopis, Associate Professor, Art History, National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain This work is distinguished by its use of a variety of primary sources, and its multifaceted approach, combining history and art history. It is an important addition to the study of early modern Tunisia in particular, and to acculturation in the Mediterranean in general. -Houssem Eddine Chachia, Assistant Professor, History, University of Tunis, Tunisia This book explores an anonymous sixteenth-century portrait of Muley al-Hassan, the Hafsid king of Tunis (ca. 1528-1550), that bears witness to relations between North Africa, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. While Muley al-Hassan appears frequently in the vast literature on Charles V Habsburg, he is overshadowed by the emperor. Here he emerges as a protagonist, a figure whose shifting reputation can be traced well into the seventeenth century. Images of the King of Tunis circulated in broadsheets, ephemeral images made for triumphal entries, manuscripts, tapestry designs, engravings, and books. The ceaseless production of Tunisian imagery allowed Europeans to face their North African counterparts through scenes of battle but also through imaginary encounters and festive cross-dressing. This book shows how portraits of Hafsid rulers challenge assumptions about the absolute divide between Christian and Muslim, sovereign and subject, the familiar and the foreign, and they put a face on the entangled histories of the early modern Mediterranean. Cristelle L. Baskins is Associate Professor Emeritus, Tufts University, USA.


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The description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion
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ISBN: 9783031156069 9783031156052 9783031156076 9783031156083 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the Description that followed Edward Said's Orientalism, as a summation of an orientalist colonial project. It re-centres the Description in the much more complex and dynamic political and intellectual world of France of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and its colonial aspirations. It follows closely the notes, texts, and illustrations of the contributors to the work, the majority of whom were graduates of the first years of the Polytechnic school in Paris, and the well-documented editing process that continued for almost thirty years, in which France moved from Revolution to Empire and Restoration. It shows the ways in which scholarly traditions and newly acquired skills interplay with Enlightenment texts, contemporary politics, and received ideas about antiquity, and how these were reinterpreted and modified - in texts and illustrations - through the encounter with the physical and social worlds of Ottoman Egypt. Using the rich repository of the Description of Egypt the book demonstrates the contribution of antiquarian methods of research to the emerging disciplines of the social sciences. Tamar Sarfatti is an independent scholar, based in the UK and Israel.


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The Cultural Sociology of Reading : The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World
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ISBN: 9783031132278 9783031132261 9783031132285 9783031132292 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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“Reading is the interplay between embodied texts and human beings. It takes place in landscapes of politics, economics, emotions, memories, and hierarchies of both social power and cultural prestige. The essays in The Cultural Sociology of Reading untangle this rather mysterious practice. More, they exemplify what the best sociology can do: They situate readers within specific local and global contexts, among unevenly distributed material and intellectual affordances, and then explore and illuminate what happens.” —Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology and Bergen Evans Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University, USA “The book edited by María Angélica Thumala Olave is a major contribution to the study of the book and its multiple appropriations, a particularly dynamic and fertile sector of cultural sociology. Thanks to the quality of the chapters, it succeeds in the tour de force of making us understand, in relation to varied national contexts, periods and types of texts, the meaning and functions, from the most political to the most intimate, of an object as central in the history of humanity as the book.” —Bernard Lahire, Professor of Sociology, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France This book showcases recent work about reading, in sociology and the humanities across the globe. From different standpoints within the cultural sociology of reading, the eighteen chapters examine a range of reading practices, genres, texts and reading spaces. They contribute to current debates about the valuation of literature and the role of cultural intermediaries; the iconic properties of textual objects and of the practice of reading itself; how reading supports personal, social and political reflection; bookstores as spaces for sociability and the interplay of high and commercial cultures; the political uses of reading for nation-building and propaganda, and the dangers and gratifications of reading under repression. In line with the cultural sociology of reading’s focus on meaning, materiality and emotion, this book explores the existential, ethical and political consequences of reading in specific locations and historical moments. María Angélica Thumala Olave is Lecturer in Global Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. .


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J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" : Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion
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ISBN: 9783031112669 9783031112652 9783031112676 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien’s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre, The Hobbit is ultimately a historical novel. It does not refer directly to any “real” historical events, but it both enacts and conceptualizes history in a way that makes it real. Drawing on Marxist literary criticism and narrative theory, this book examines the form and content of Tolkien’s work, demonstrating how the heroic romance is simultaneously employed and subverted by Tolkien in his tale of an unlikely hero, “quite a little fellow in a wide world,” who nonetheless makes history. First-time readers of Tolkien, as well as established scholars and fans, will enjoy this engaging and accessible study of The Hobbit. Robert T. Tally Jr. is a Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. His books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (2022), Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), and Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014).


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Panoramas and compilations in nineteenth-century Britain : seeing the big picture
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ISBN: 9783031156847 9783031156830 9783031156854 9783031156861 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual models of overview: the panorama and the compilation. Both models claimed to offer a holistic picture of the present moment, but took very different approaches. This book shows that panoramas (360° views previously associated with the Romantic period) and compilations (big data projects previously associated with the Victorian fin de siècle) are intertwined, relevant across the entire century, and often remediated, making them crucial lenses through which to view a broad range of genre and forms. It brings together interdisciplinary research materials belonging to different period silos to create new understandings of how nineteenth-century audiences dealt with information overload. It argues for a new politics of distance: one that recognizes the value of immersing oneself in a situation, event or phenomenon, but which also does not chastise us for trying to see the big picture. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature, history, visual culture and information studies. Helen Kingstone is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her first book, Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. She co-chaired a Wellcome Trust-funded Humanities and Social Sciences network on ‘Generations’ from 2019 to 2021, and has been a co-director of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Generations at the University of Surrey.


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Frances Burney’s “Evelina”
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ISBN: 9783031177972 9783031177965 9783031177989 9783031177996 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, written by a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.


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Book history
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ISSN: 10987371 15291499 Year: 1998 Publisher: University Park, Pa Pennsylvania State University Press

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Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print. It publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of author-ship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response. Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The official publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP).


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ISBN: 9789089673275 908967327X Year: 2020 Publisher: Amersfoort Hoogland & van Klaveren

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Joke Luyten, 02 november 2020Charlotte Dematons heeft al een palmares om u tegen te zeggen. Met dit boek leverde ze opnieuw een meesterwerk af. 26 kunstwerken, één voor elke letter van het alfabet. Op elk blad staan enkel woorden die met die letter beginnen. Zo zie je Sinterklaas in zijn stoomboot met schapen in een schommelstoel. Of een Indiaan op een ijsschots bij een iglo. Elke bladzijde is rijk gevuld (zelfs die van de q!) en blijft nieuwe ontdekkingen opleveren. Als je zou twijfelen over bepaalde woorden, dan kan de bijhorende app helpen. Daarmee worden alle woorden zichtbaar.Op elk blad zie je ook een dief die telkens één voorwerp steelt. Op het einde heeft hij zo van alle letters van het alfabet een voorwerp en die hangt hij samen aan een waslijn.Hoewel er geen woorden staan in dit boek, staan woorden centraal. Evidente woorden zoals appel, aap of aardbei komen aan bod maar ook veel minder evidente zoals artisjok, aardvarken of atalanta. We zien ook Asterix en ? met hulp van de app ? leer ik de bloemen Akkerwinde en Anemoon kennen. Zelden merken we taalverschillen op tussen Nederlands en Vlaams die voor verwarring zorgen (vb een ambulance waar we in Vlaanderen een ziekenwagen zouden zeggen).Uw razend enthousiaste recensent roept het uit: reuzegoed, rustig je tijd voor nemen!02 november 2020© Pluizer60http://www.pluizer.beNa drie jaar bijna obsessief werken heeft de Nederlandse Charlotte Dematons haar nieuwe solowerk af. Zo doorsnee als de titel ?Alfabet? klinkt, zo uitzonderlijk is dit fenomenale prentenboek. Elke prent verbeeldt talloze woorden die met een bepaalde letter van het alfabet beginnen. Het is moeilijk in te beelden hoe verregaand Dematons het concept heeft uitgewerkt tot je het ziet. Nooit eerder bulkte een ?woordeloos? prentenboek van zoveel ongebreideld taalplezier. In Dematons favoriete prent zit bijvoorbeeld een nijl­paard in een nest met een nachtpon aan haar nagels Napels-geel te lakken. Zo schuilen er niet minder dan 3000 woorden in de gedetailleerde prenten. Onze taal dwingt sommige illustraties tot eindeloze details, andere letters laten dan weer heel wat ruimte. Elke keer opnieuw heeft Dematons andere manieren gezocht om de woorden in de beelden met elkaar te verbinden, soms verrassend, soms schijnbaar evident. De letterdief op de cover heet ?Alfabet? en weeft de bladzijden aan elkaar.Dematons zou Dematons niet zijn als ze niet talloze culturele verwijzingen, details en grapjes in haar prenten zou integreren. Hoe meer je het boek ter hand neemt, hoe indrukwekkender het wordt. Je blijft zoeken, ontdekken en glimlachen bij de vondsten. De uitgever ontwikkelde een website met de woordenlijsten en een app waarmee je de prenten kan scannen. Ze vullen het boek mooi aan en bevestigen de eindeloze mogelijkheden, maar gun ?Alfabet? de eerste keer jouw onbevangen blik. Enkel zo kom je dicht bij de rechtlijnige en fantasierijke kijk van Dematons en die van kinderen, voor wie ze het boek uiteindelijk gemaakt heeft. Als geschenk kan het dolboek erbij een mooie aanvulling zijn.Bron: https://alleswatikmooikanvinden.org/geschenkideeen-2023/

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