The Book in History, the Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text : Essays in Honor of David...
- ISBN-10
- 0300223161
- ISBN-13
- 9780300223163
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 417
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- Heidi Brayman Hackel, Jesse M. Lander, Heidi Brayman
Description
The essays in this collection reach beyond book history to address fundamental questions about historicism with a broad range of issues such as gender and sexuality, religion, political theory, economic history, adaptation and appropriation, and quantitative analysis and digital humanities.
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