Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period

ISBN-13: 9781138723290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Malcolm Gee; Tim Kirk

Opis

This title was first published in 2002: This collection of essays looks at how the urban environment was fundamental to the development of printing, and how in turn, towns and cities used print culture to spread urban ideas and values to society at large. It sets out to demonstrate the centrality of printing and publishing to the understanding of urban culture, and in so doing engages with a number of recurrent historical issues, such as the role of printing in urban economies, the construction of metropolitan identities and the testing of moral boundaries.

Recenzje

'Ashgate is rapidly becoming a major publisher in the field of book history... This collection of essays is as enjoyable as it is wide-ranging. The editors have done a good job in assembling this unique book... Printed matters deserves to be read - and enjoyed - widely, not least because it reminds us through some delightful case-studies, of the power of print as, primarily, a medium of urban culture.' Journal of the Printing Historical Society

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Malcolm Gee and Tim Kirk; Rouen and its printers from the 15th to the 19th century, Jean-Dominique Mellot; Lyons’ printers and booksellers from the 15th to the 19th century, Dominique Varry; Gavarni’s Parisian population reproduced, David W.S. Gray; The literary dangers of the city: policing 'immoral books' in Berlin, 1850-1880, Sarah L. Leonard; Readers, browsers, strangers, spectators: narrative forms and metropolitan encounters in 20th-century Berlin, Peter Fritzsche; Commercial spies and cultural invaders: the French press, Pénétration Pacifique and xenophobic nationalism in the shadow of war, Fae Brauer; Neutrality under threat: freedom, use and ’abuse’ of the press in Switzerland, 1914-19, Debbie Lewer; The ’cultured’ city: the art press in Berlin and Paris in the early 20th century, Malcolm Gee; Text and image in the construction of an urban readership: allied propaganda in France during the Second World War, Valerie Holman; Structures of the typescript, Catherine Viollet; Index.

O autorze

Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk