Ian R. Willison

Andrew Nash

Simon Eliot

Professor of the History of the Book in the Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study Simon Eliot

Derived from papers presented at an international symposium held at the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies in the Institute of English Studies in the University of London and at the British Library, London in 2004.

Literary Cultures and the Material Book

Claire Squires

I. R. Willison

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range of perspectives in order to create a comprehensive guide, from growing professionalisation at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the impact of digital technologies at the end. Its multi-authored focus on the material book and its manufacture broadens to a study of the book's authorship and readership, and its production and dissemination via publishing and bookselling. It examines in detail key market sectors over the course of the period, and concludes with a series of essays concentrating on aspects of book history: the book in wartime; class, democracy and value; books and other media; intellectual property and copyright; and imperialism and post-imperialism.

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond

William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.

Gender, Genre and the Marketplace

William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel

This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history—one often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this current of thought from nineteenth-century disputes over Dutch liberal theology through Stellenbosch existentialism to the prison writings of Breyten Breytenbach, and examines related themes in the work of Olive Schreiner, M. K. Gandhi, and Richard Turner. At the core of this tradition is a defence of free speech in its classical sense, as a virtue necessary for a good society, rather than in its modern liberal sense as an individual right. Out of this defence of free speech, conducted in the face of charges of heresy, treason, and immorality, a range of philosophical conceptions developed—of the self constituted in dialogue with others, of freedom as transcendence of the given, and of a dialectical movement of consciousness as it is educated through debate and action. This study shows the Socratic commitment to "following the argument where it leads," sustained and developed in the storm and stress of a peculiar modernity.

The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa

Formerly Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism D F McKenzie

D. F. McKenzie

Richard Gameson

Michael F. Suarez

David McKitterick

Nigel J. Morgan

Joseph Burney Trapp

Maureen Bell

Michael L. Turner

John Barnard

Lotte Hellinga

Rodney M. Thomson

This volume contains thirty-eight chapters on print culture in a time of religious divisions and civil war.

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

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