Lisa M. Maruca

The Work of Print

Authorship and the EnglishText Trades, 1660-1760

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on contemporary accounts of those involved in the trade - printers, booksellers, publishers, and distributors, this work describes the labours through which literature was produced: both the physical labour of making books and the underlying cultural work performed by a set of ideologies about who counted as a maker of texts.

Produktdetails

• The Work of Print
• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 235mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780295987446
• ISBN-10: 0295987448
• Artikelnr.: 22833651

Autorenporträt

Lisa Maruca is associate professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Printing Production Values
2. Printers' Manuals and the Bodies of Type
3. Citizen, Hero, or Midwife? Re-presenting the Bookseller
4. From Authorized Print to Authoritative Author: The Regulated Trade
5. The Printer as Author: Samuel Richardson, Intellectual Property, and the
Feminine Text
6. The Ghost in the Machine: Invisible Print in a Digital Age
Notes
Bibliography
Index