scholarly journals Reading the Late-Romantic Lending Library: Authorship and the Anxiety of Anonymity in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Late Work

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Spoerhase
Keyword(s):  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Late Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lending Library ◽  
Materiality Of The Text

Combining findings from the sociology of literature, the history of the book and reading, and studies on the materiality of the text, this paper reassesses a late-Romantic ‘scene of reading’ in E. T. A. Hoffmann’sMy Cousin’s Corner Window(1822). This ‘scene of reading’ presents the lending library as one of the central institutions of Romanticism and depicts anonymity as a crucial mode of Romantic authorship. Furthermore, Hoffmann’s ‘scene of reading’ focuses on the significant and problematic fact that literary communication is ‘anonymized’ by the uniform materiality of the bookbindings used in late-Romantic lending libraries and associated reading practices.

Introduction to AJS Review Symposium: The Jewish Book: Views and Questions

AJS Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-357
Author(s):  
Adam Shear
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Book History ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
History Of ◽  
Written Word ◽  
The Impact

In the last several decades, the study of reading, writing, and publishing has emerged as a lively field of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Historians and literary scholars have engaged with a number of questions about the impact of changes in technology on reading practices and particularly on the relationship between new technologies of reading and writing and social, religious, and political change. The new field of the “history of the book,” merging aspects of social and intellectual history with the tools of analytical and descriptive bibliography, came to the fore in the second half of the twentieth century at the same time that the emergence of new forms of electronic media raised many questions for social scientists about the ways that technological change have affected aspects of human communication in our time. Meanwhile, while the field of book history emerged initially among early modernists interested in the impact of printing technology, the issues raised regarding authorship, publication, relations between orality and the written word, dissemination, and reception have enriched the study of earlier periods.

scholarly journals “I want to find real readers, discover their responses to books and their reading practices”. The story of printed production by Martyn Lyons

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
Nathanael Araújo ◽  
Ana Paula da Costa
Keyword(s):  
History Of The Book ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
French History ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The University

Martyn Lyons is an Emeritus Professor of European History and Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Specialist in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his main research interests are the history of the book, reading and writing, French history and Australian history. He published around sixteen books with the results of his work and gave us this interview at the Third Argentine Colloquium on Book and Edition Studies (CAELE), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 7 to 9, 2018. As a guest of honor, he presented the opening speech of the event entitled "The century of the typewriter. How the typewriter influenced writing practices" and generously, he agreed to give this interview to two young researchers in the field of publishing, book and reading in Brazil.

Uncovering the Arundel Library at the Royal Society: changing meanings of science and the fate of the Norfolk donation

1998 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. V. Peck
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
British Library ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe

Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, was the most important collector in early 17th Century Britain. Much attention has been paid to his collections of painting and sculpture, his patronage of painters such as Rubens and Van Dyck and architects such as Inigo Jones, and his search through Greece and Turkey for antiquities. Little, however, has been written on the Arundel Library, which was equally famous. The cause is not hard to find: the library has been dispersed whereas the marbles and antiquities have found a home at Oxford, the manuscripts at the British Library and the College of Arms, and the paintings and sculpture remain identifiable whether at Arundel Castle or in British, continental or American museums. Yet the Arundel Library is of great significance: to the history of book–collecting by the great bibliophiles Willibald Pirckheimer and Arundel himself; to the study of the reading practices and libraries of members of the Howard family, possibly including Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and, certainly, his son, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; and, more generally, to the history of the book in the Renaissance and early modern Europe and the concomitant study of communities of readers.

scholarly journals Non-compliant Reading and Annotating in the Ruthenian Reformation: Cyril of Jerusalem’s Mystagogical Catechisms from Szymon Budny’s Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-121
Author(s):  
Maria Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Church Father ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

While the works of the Antitrinitarian thinker and religious leader Szymon Budny (ca. 1530-93) have been the subject of extensive scholarly research, his library, marginalia, and reading practices have been significantly less examined. Following the discovery of a copy of Cyril of Jerusalem’s Mystagogical Catechisms (Vienna, 1560) belonging to Budny, I analyze Budny’s notes and comments regarding the Latin translation of Cyril’s text as a case study of Budny’s attempt to recover the Church Father from the Catholic post-Tridentine agenda and his own subsequent re-appropriation of Cyril for his radical non-adorantist program. By exploring Budny’s subversive reading and annotating strategies, I demonstrate Budny’s original contributions to the development of Antitrinitarian thought in Europe. I also illustrate how marginalia and paratexts reflect not only the history of the book in which they are found, but also how they throw light on religious and intellectual history.

scholarly journals O lugar do livro e da leitura no Maranhão Oitocentista: o Gabinete Português de Leitura

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
César Augusto Castro ◽  
Samuel Luis Velázquez Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Book History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Library Catalog ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Library Catalogs

Os catálogos de biblioteca têm se constituído como importante recurso para o resgate da história do livro e dos processos de produção, circulação e das práticas leitoras em diferentes lugares e por públicos distintos. Apresenta-se o catálogo da biblioteca do Gabinete Português de Leitura do Maranhão, destacando a trajetória do livro no Maranhão no período oitocentista, como forma de compreender o processo de circulação e finalidades desse bem cultural; a história do Gabinete Português de Leitura, pontuando suas normas, finalidades e critérios normativos para os associados; e a análise do catálogo da Biblioteca desse instituto, destacando a classificação e ordenação dos livros, bem como as principais classes consultadas. Constata-se que este catálogo foi elaborado como forma de desenvolver estratégias de controle e consulta ao acervo, além de verificar a natureza das obras e indicar as leituras permissivas na biblioteca.AbstractThe library catalogs have been established as an important resource for the rescue of book history and the processes of production, circulation and reading practices in different places and for different audiences. We present a catalog of the library of Portuguese Reading Cabinet in Maranhão, highlighting the history of the book in Maranhão in nineteenth-century period, as a way to understand the process and purpose of this cultural movement as well; the history of Portuguese Reading Cabinet, punctuating his standards, objectives and regulatory criteria for members; and the analysis of the catalog of the library of this institute, highlighting the classification and ordering of books, and the main classes consulted. It appears that this catalog has been prepared in order to develop strategies to control and consult the collection and to verify the nature of the works and indicate the permissive readings in the library.KeywordsPortuguese Reading Cabinet. Library. Catalog.

O GABINETE PORTUGUáŠS DE LEITURA: o lugar do livro e da leitura no Maranhão oitocentista

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
CÉSAR AUGUSTO CASTRO ◽  
SAMUEL LUIS VELáZQUEZ CASTELLANOS
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Book History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Library Catalog ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Cultural Movement

Os catálogos de biblioteca têm se constituá­do como importante recurso para o resgate da história do livro e dos processos de produção, circulação e das práticas leitoras em diferentes lugares e por públicos distintos. Apresenta-se o catálogo da biblioteca do Gabinete Português de Leitura do Maranhão, destacando a trajetória do livro no Maranhão no perá­odo oitocentista, como forma de compreender o processo de circulação e finalidades desse bem cultural; a história do Gabinete Português de Leitura, pontuando suas normas, finalidades e critérios normativos para os associados; e a análise do catálogo da Biblioteca desse instituto, destacando a classificação e ordenação dos livros, bem como as principais classes consultadas. Constata-se que este catálogo foi elaborado como forma de desenvolver estratégias de controle e consulta ao acervo, além de verificar a natureza das obras e indicar as leituras permissivas na biblioteca. Palavras-chave: Gabinete Português de Leitura. Biblioteca. Catálogo.  THE PORTUGUESE OFFICE OF READING: the place for book and reading in 19th century MaranhãoAbstract: The library catalogs have been established as an important resource for the rescue of book history and the processes of production, circulation and reading practices in different places and for different audiences. We present the catalog of the library of Portuguese Reading Cabinet in Maranhão, highlighting the history of the book in Maranhão in 19th century as a way to understand the process and purpose of this cultural movement as well; the history of Portuguese Reading Cabinet highlighting his standards, objectives and regulatory criteria for members; and the analysis of the Institute”™s library catalog, highlighting the classification and ordering of books and the main classes consulted. It appears that this catalog was prepared in order to develop strategies to control and consult the collection and to verify the nature of the works and indicate the permissive readings in the library. Keywords: Portuguese Reading Cabinet. Library. Catalog.   EL GABINETE PORTUGUÉS DE LECTURA: el lugar del libro y de la lectura en el Maranhão del siglo XIXResumen: Los catálogos de biblioteca se constituyen como importante recurso para el rescate de la historia del libro y de los procesos de producción, circulación y de las prácticas lectoras en diferentes espacios y por el publico diferenciado. Se presenta el catálogo de la biblioteca del Gabinete Portugués de Lectura de Maranhão, destacando la trayectoria del libro en Maranhão, durante el siglo XIX, como un modo de comprender el proceso de circulación y finalidades del bien cultural; la historia del Gabinete Portugués de Lectura, señalando sus normas, finalidades y criterios normativos para los asociados; y el análisis del catalogo de Biblioteca de ese instituto, destacando la clasificación y ordenación de los libros, asá­ como las principales clases consultadas. Se constata que este catálogo fue elaborado como forma de desarrollar estrategias de control y consulta al acervo , además de verificar la naturaleza de las obras e indicar las lecturas permisivas en la biblioteca. Palabras clave: Gabinete Portugues de Lectura. Biblioteca. Catálogo.

Religion, Politics, and the Parish in Tudor England and Wales: A View from the Marches of Wales, 1534–1553

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine K. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mary Tudor ◽  
Shed Light

Historians of early modern England benefit from a rich and varied array of contemporary accounts by individuals that shed light on the local, regional, and wider impact of religious and other policies of successive monarchs. These include the narrative of Robert Parkyn, a Yorkshire priest, of the years 1532–54, Rose Hickman's recollections of Protestant life during the reign of Mary Tudor, to the chronicle of Henry Machyn in 1550–1563, to name but a few. More broadly, too, the history of the book and its import in illuminating various aspects of medieval and early modern popular culture, devotion, piety, reading practices and other related topics has been widely recognised. They have been successfully mined in recent years by various scholars of medieval and early modern England, Ireland, and beyond, from Eamon Duffy to Salvador Ryan and Raymond Gillespie.

Publishing, Book Culture, and Reading Practices in Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Kathlene Baldanza
Keyword(s):  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Culture

The Nôm Preservation Foundation recently made the libraries of two Buddhist temples near Hà Nội available in digitized form. The resulting composite temple collection allows us to pose questions about the history of the book in Vietnam. The history of the book in Vietnam must be understood from an interregional perspective. The availability of relatively inexpensive Chinese books influenced what was worthwhile to print locally. At the same time, even books with the same title are remarkably diverse in terms of content, medium, and annotation. A close look at individual books can show us what and how people read.

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