Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700–1900

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Towards a Bookish Literary History....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Wild Bibliography: The Rise and Fall of Book History in Nineteenth-Century Britain....Pages 19-40
‘Uncommon Animals’: Making Virtue of Necessity in the Age of Authors....Pages 41-60
‘This Enormous Contagion of Paper and Print’: Making Literary History in the Age of Steam....Pages 61-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Canons’ Clockwork: Novels for Everyday Use....Pages 87-110
Book-Love and the Remaking of Literary Culture in the Romantic Periodical....Pages 111-125
The Art of Sharing: Reading in the Romantic Miscellany....Pages 126-147
Getting the Reading Out of It: Paper Recycling in Mayhew’s London....Pages 148-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Reading Collections: The Literary Discourse of Eighteenth-Century Libraries....Pages 169-195
Imagining Hegel: Bookish Forms and the Romantic Synopticon....Pages 196-212
‘The Society of Agreeable and Worthy Companions’: Bookishness and Manuscript Culture after 1750....Pages 213-231
The Practice and Poetics of Curlism: Print, Obscenity, and the Merryland Pamphlets in the Career of Edmund Curll....Pages 232-252
Charlatanism and Resentment in London’s Eighteenth-Century Literary Marketplace....Pages 253-271
Back Matter....Pages 272-283