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  • Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722

    by Sandro Jung ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Unlike earlier accounts, it takes into account not only the copyright holder's editions but also studies Continental visualizations alongside a lower-end London abridgment ... Read more

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  • Eighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture

    Richardson, Thomson, Defoe

    by Sandro Jung ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    This Element studies eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century instances of transmediation, concentrating on how the same illustrations were adapted for new media and how they generated novel media constellations and meanings for these images. Focusing on the 'content' of the illustrations and its adaptation within the framework of a new medium, case studies examine the use across different media ... Read more

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  • Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters

    Perspectives on Exchange in the Sattelzeit

    Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
    Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development of British and German literary cultures. With increased numbers of people studying foreign languages, engaging in translation work, and traveling between Britain and Germany, the eighteenth and ... Read more

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  • James Thomson's The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730–1842

    by Sandro Jung ...
    Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
    Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the ... Read more

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  • Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

    Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
    Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous studies have also been restricted to notes by or for canonical figures; they have neglected ... Read more

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  • The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
    This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the ... Read more

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  • The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760–1825

    by Sandro Jung ...
    Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
    A ground-breaking contribution to the economic and cultural history of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century publishing of illustrated belles lettres in Scotland, the book offers detailed accounts of numerous agents of prints (booksellers, printers, designers, engravers) and their involvement in the making and marketing of illustrated editions. It examines the ways in which the makers of ... Read more

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  • The Genres of Thomson’s The Seasons

    Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
    Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson’s composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact that it started as a stand-alone poem, Winter (1726), but was subsequently expanded—as part of a ... Read more

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