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Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137367600

ISBN: 978-1-349-55460-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 1, 2015

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Introduction: Bookish Outliers

Ferris, Ina

Pages: 1 –13

[In the late 1980s the printing historian G. Thomas Tanselle put together a collection of essays by the recently deceased literary scholar and book collector Gordon N. Ray. In his introduction he paid tribute to him as ‘always at heart a bookman’, taking his cue from Ray himself who (in a talk to...
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Unmooring the Literary Word

Ferris, Ina

Pages: 17 –44

[Romantic bibliomaniacs have lately become a lot more interesting: ‘pests’ disturbing literary relations, ‘garish’ twins of sober bibliographers, and avatars of ‘all types of wild, inordinate, improper and forbidden reading practices’ (including the practice of non-reading).1 No longer negligible...
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Typographical Consciousness and the Diffraction of Authorship

Ferris, Ina

Pages: 45 –70

[Robert Darnton’s identification of a ‘typographical consciousness’ in his landmark essay comes out of the observation that eighteenth-century book advertisements and prospectuses tended to include remarkably detailed information about typeface, paper, and other material features of the books...
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Printing Clubs and the Question of the Archive

Ferris, Ina

Pages: 71 –97

[In the early 1820s the rare-book club fostered by the bibliomania spun off a new bookish association—the printing club—whose primary focus was the publication of historical rather than literary antiquities. Although early nineteenth-century printing clubs published a wide range of materials,...
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On the Borders of the Reading Public

Ferris, Ina

Pages: 101 –133

[The book clubs discussed in Part I represent a generative thread within Romantic book culture whose ramification into the wider cultural arena answered to the period’s intensified print consciousness. In so doing, as we have seen, they rubbed up against the literary sphere’s model of literature...
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A Provincial Itinerary: Reading the Journals of John Marsh

Ferris, Ina

Pages: 134 –154

[In May 1796 John Marsh—landed gentleman and passionate ‘musical amateur’ who had settled in the cathedral town of Chichester—began writing what he called a ‘History of My Private Life’. Born in 1752, Marsh began keeping a diary in 1765, when he was thirteen years old, and he continued to do so...

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