Leipziger Jahrbuch Zur Buchgeschichte. Eine Veroffentlichung Der Deutschen Bibliothek, Deutsche Bucherei Leipzig. in Zusammenarbeit Mit Dem Leipziger Arbeitskreis Zur Geschichte Des Buchwesens
Leipziger Jahrbuch Zur Buchgeschichte. Eine Veroffentlichung Der Deutschen Bibliothek, Deutsche Bucherei Leipzig. in Zusammenarbeit Mit Dem Leipziger Arbeitskreis Zur Geschichte Des Buchwesens

Author: Christine Haug

Publisher: Harrassowitz

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9783447061308

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Das Jahrbuch des Leipziger Arbeitskreises zur Geschichte des Buchwesens veroffentlicht seit 1990 wissenschaftliche Originalbeitrage, Quellen und Dokumente sowie Forschungs- und Archivberichte zu allen Teilbereichen der deutschen und internationalen Buchgeschichte, darunter zur Papier-, Einband-, Druck-, Buchhandels-, Bibliotheks- und Lesergeschichte.Das Jahrbuch wird gemeinsam mit Der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek herausgegeben. Es setzt eine lange Tradition Leipziger Buchwissenschaft fort und basiert auf einer engen Verbindung der Mitglieder des Arbeitskreises mit der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek und deren Abteilung Deutsches Buch- undSchriftmuseum.Aus dem Inhalt (insg. 15 Beitrage): Holger Nickel, Inkunabeln als Quellen der Leipziger UniversitatsgeschichteRiccarda Henkel, Die Res Publica Litteraria des fruhen 18. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der Leipziger Zeitschrift "Historie Der Gelehrsamkeit Unserer Zeiten"Jeffrey Freedman, Publishing Wars and the End of the French Enlightenment: "Les oeuvres posthumes de Frederic II"Claudia-Alexandra Schwaighofer, Die Zeichnung in ihrer Reproduktion. Die druckgraphischen Mappenwerke des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum fruhen 19. JahrhundertHiltrud Hantzschel, Die Bucherverbrennung und die Publizistin Alice Ruhle-GerstelMurray G. Hall, Die Bucherverbrennung und der Literaturbetrieb in OsterreichVolker Bendig/Jurgen Kuhnert, Die Munchner Bucherverbrennung vom 10. Mai 1933 und der NS-Studentenfuhrer Karl Gengenbach

Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries

Author: Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1994-12-31

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9780792332497

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This twenty-third volume of ABBB (Annual bibliography of the history of the printed book and libraries) contains 3956 records, selected from some 1600 periodicals, the list of which follows this introduction. They have been compiled by the National Committees of the following countries: Arab Countries Italy Australia Latin America Austria Latvia Belgium Luxembourg Byelorussia The Netherlands Canada Poland Croatia Portugal Denmark Rumania Estonia Russia Finland South Africa Spain France Germany Sweden Great Britain Switzerland Hungary Ukrain Ireland (Republic of) USA Benevolent readers are requested to signal the names of bibliographers and historians from countries not mentioned above, who would be willing to co-operate to this scheme of international bibliographic collaboration. The editor will greatly appreciate any communication on this matter. Subject As has been said in the introduction to the previous volumes, this bibliography aims at recording all books and articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic, social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation, and description. Of course, the ideal of a complete coverage is nearly impossible to attain.

From Lived Experience to the Written Word
From Lived Experience to the Written Word

Author: Pamela H. Smith

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-09-23

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0226818241

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"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--

Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography
Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography

Author: Bernadette Cunningham

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1443884294

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This volume brings together papers presented at the Fifth International Conference of the European Historical Bibliographies Project, held in Prague on November 7 - 8, 2013, under the auspices of the Department of Historical Bibliography of the Institute of History of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. The conference attracted bibliographers, historians and librarians from Denmark, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland and from a number of Czech institutions and libraries, who gathered to discuss a wide range of topics. The main theme of the conference was the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Given the diversity of professional focus among the conference participants, this topic was approached and examined from a variety of viewpoints. The most important outcomes of these meetings were, firstly, explaining the way individual participating organisations dealt with historical bibliography, and, secondly, providing a comparison of different methodological and technological approaches for processing specialized bibliographies in various European countries. This book introduces the wider public to the current shape and prospects of historical bibliography projects across a range of European countries. Obviously, such projects must reflect the needs of their users, which mainly comprise historians and librarians. The ongoing development of historical bibliography does not only involve a technical challenge, but also a methodological one, as well as a societal one when interpreted in a broader context. Mutual communication helps form the future direction of historical bibliography, which will undoubtedly face many new tasks and challenges.

Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England
Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England

Author: Valerie Wayne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1350110027

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This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them. Their writing and reading had an impact on their contemporaries and the developing literary canon. A focus on women's work enables these essays to recognize the various forms of labour -- textual and social as well as material and commercial -- that women of different social classes engaged in. Those considered include the very poor, the middling sort who were active in the book trade, and the elite women authors and readers who participated in literary communities. Taken together, these essays convey the impressive work that women accomplished and their frequent collaborations with others in the making, marking, and marketing of early modern English books.

Print Markets and Political Dissent
Print Markets and Political Dissent

Author: James M. Brophy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 0192584502

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Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly interests. Their outsize personalities, their entrepreneurial zeal, and their publishing achievements portray how print markets shaped the political world. The narrow perimeters of political communication in the late-absolutist states of Prussia and Austria curtailed the open market of ideas. The publishing industry contested this information order, working both within and outside legal parameters to create a modern public sphere. Their expansion of print markets, their cat-and-mouse game with censors, and their ingenuity in packaging political commentary sheds light on the production and reception of dissent. Against the backdrop of censorship and police surveillance, the successes and failures of these citizens of print tell us much about nineteenth-century civil society and Central Europe's tortuous pathway to political modernization. Cutting across a range of disciplines, this study will engage social and political historians as well as scholars of publishing, literary criticism, cultural studies, translation, and the public sphere. The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.

Characters Before Copyright
Characters Before Copyright

Author: Matthew H. Birkhold

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-04-25

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0192567926

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How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author's character? Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in eighteenth-century Germany has long been considered unregulated. This book tells a different story. Characters before Copyright documents the surprisingly widespread eighteenth-century practice of writing fan fictionliterary works written by readers who appropriate preexisting characters invented by other authorsand reconstructs the contemporaneous debate about the literary phenomenon. Like fan fiction today, these texts took the form of sequels, prequels, and spinoffs. Analyzing the evolving reading, writing, and consumer habits of late-eighteenth-century Germany, Characters before Copyright identifies the social, economic, and aesthetic changes that fostered the rapid rise of fan fiction after 1750. Based on archival work and an ethnographic approach borrowed from legal anthropology, this book then uncovers the unwritten customary norms that governed the production of these works. Characters before Copyright thus reinterprets the eighteenth-century literary commons, arguing that what may appear to have been the free circulation of characters was actually circumscribed by an exacting set of rules and conditions. These norms translated into a unique type of literature that gave rise to remarkable forms of collaborative authorship and originality. Characters before Copyright provides a new perspective on the eighteenth-century book trade and the rise of intellectual property, reevaluating the concept of literary property, the history of moral rights, and the tradition of free culture.

Everyday Life in the German Book Trade
Everyday Life in the German Book Trade

Author: Pamela E. Selwyn

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0271043873

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In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the importance attributed to Nicolai’s role in the intellectual life of his age by his own contemporaries. While long neglected by students of the period, who tended to accept the caricature of him as a philistine who failed to recognize Goethe’s genius, Nicolai has experienced a resurgence of interest among scholars reexploring the German Enlightenment and the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century. This book, drawing upon Nicolai’s large unpublished correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and publisher and as an Aufkärer in the book trade.

A History of British Publishing
A History of British Publishing

Author: John Feather

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-11-14

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1134415419

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Thoroughly revised, restructured and updated, A History of British Publishing covers six centuries of publishing in Britain from before the invention of the printing press, to the electronic era of today. John Feather places Britain and her industries in an international marketplace and examines just how ‘British’, British publishing really is. Considering not only the publishing industry itself, but also the areas affecting, and affected by it, Feather traces the history of publishing books in Britain and examines: education politics technology law religion custom class finance, production and distribution the onslaught of global corporations. Specifically designed for publishing and book history courses, this is the only book to give an overall history of British publishing, and will be an invaluable resource for all students of this fascinating subject.

Wilhelm Herzberg’s Jewish Family Papers (1868)
Wilhelm Herzberg’s Jewish Family Papers (1868)

Author: Manja Herrmann

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-01-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 311029771X

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Wilhelm Herzberg’s novel Jewish Family Papers, which was first published under a pseudonym in 1868, was one of the bestselling German-Jewish books of the nineteenth century. Its numerous editions, reviews, and translations – into Dutch, English, and Hebrew – are ample proof of its impact. Herzberg’s Jewish Family Papers picks up on some of the most central contemporary philosophical, religious, and social debates and discusses aspects such as emancipation, antisemitism, Jewishness and Judaism, nationalism, and the Christian religion and culture, as well as gender roles. So far, however, the novel has not received the scholarly attention it so assuredly deserves. This bilingual volume is the first attempt to acknowledge how this outstanding source can contribute to our understanding of German-Jewish literature and culture in the nineteenth century and beyond. Through interdisciplinary readings, it will discuss this forgotten bestseller, embedding it within various contemporary discourses: religion, literature, emancipation, nationalism, culture, transnationalism, gender, theology, and philosophy.