Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) - Hardcover

Michele Moylan (editor)|Lane Stiles (editor)|Michael Winship (Foreword By)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558490620 ISBN 13: 9781558490628

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Synopsis

These essays examine the ways in which the material qualities of books profoundly affect how they have been read and understood. Included are chapters on the reception of Dante's works in America, the binding styles of Ticknor and Fields and the packaging of literature for American high schools.

About this title

About the Author

Michele Moylan is an independent scholar.

Lane Stiles is senior editor at Mid-List Press in Minneapolis and teaches in the composition program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558490620
• ISBN 13: 9781558490628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304