Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900

ISBN-13: 9781108830201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 316 str.

Jon Mee (University of York);Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow)

Opis

This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700–1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves, institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: literature and institutions Jon Mee and Matthew Sangster; 1. Knowledge exchange in the seventeenth century: from the third university to the royal society Willy Maley; 2. Supporting mutual benevolence: libraries, civic benefaction and the spalding gentlemen's society, 1709–1755 Dustin Frazier Wood; 3. Institutions without addresses David A. Brewer; 4. Eighteenth-century Musenhof courts as bridges and brokers for cultural networks and social reform Nicole Pohl; 5. Becoming institutional: the case of the Anacreontic society Ian Newman; 6. Circulating libraries as institutional creators of genres Anne H. Stevens; 7. Lecturing networks and cultural institutions, 1740–1830 Jon Klancher; 8. Catalogues as instituting genres of the nineteenth-century museum: the two hunterians Dahlia Porter; 9. Charles lamb and the British museum as an institution of literature Gillian Russell; 10. A disruptive and dangerous education and the wealth of the nation: the early mechanics' institutes John Gardner; 11. The ladies contribution: women and the mechanics institute on the goldfields of Victoria Sarah Comyn; 12. Letters must increase: reading and writing the post office as a literary institution Karin Koehler; 13. Networks, nodes and beacons: cultural institutions in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia Porscha Fermanis; 14. The book as medium Sarah Crofton.