Dreaming in books : the making of the bibliographic imagination in the Romantic age /

Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most pressing modern c...

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Main Author: Piper, Andrew, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2009], ©2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Bibliographic Subjects
  • 1. Networking
  • Fortresses of the Spirit
  • Rethinking the Book of Everything
  • Novel as Network: J. W. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Travels
  • Problem of the Where
  • Ladies' Pocket-Book and the Excerpt
  • Ausgabe letzter Hand and a Poetics of the Version
  • Cartography and the Novel
  • Anatomy of the Book: The Work of Art as Technological Praparat
  • Coda: Faust and the Future
  • 2. Copying
  • Making Classics
  • Combinatory Spirit and the Collected Edition
  • Producing Corporeal Integrity (Wieland, Byron, Rousseau)
  • Reprinting, Reproducibility, and the Novella Collection
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Setapion Brothers and the Crisis of Originality
  • "The Uncanny Guest" and the Poetics of the Same
  • Plot of the Returning Husband
  • Magnetic Doppelganger
  • Whisper, Noise, and the Acoustics of Relocatability
  • Collectivity of the Copy
  • Again
  • 3. Processing
  • Printing the Past (Intermediality and the Book I)
  • Editor's Rise and Fall
  • Immaculate Reception: From Erneuung to Critical Edition (Tieck, Hagen, Lachmann)
  • Walter Scott, the Ballad, and the Book
  • Borders of Books: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
  • Narrating Editing: The Historical Novel and the Tales of My Landlord
  • "By Heart" v. "From the Heart" in The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Producing Singularity
  • 4. Sharing
  • Assorted Books:The Romantic Miscellany (Almanacs, Taschenbucher, Gift-Books)
  • Common Right v. Copyright
  • Book-Keeping and the Inscription (Intermediality and the Book II)
  • Hollow Texts, Textual Hollows
  • Problem of the "Of": Washington Irving's "An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron"
  • Sharing Sharing: Poe, Hawthorne, and Mrs. Chamberlain's "Jottings from an Old Journal"
  • 5. Overhearing
  • Problem of Open Source
  • "Le commerce intellectuel"
  • Women, Translation, Transnation
  • Overheard in Translation: Sophie Mereau, La Princesse de Cleves and the Loose Confession
  • Maria de Zayas's Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and the Betrayal of Writing
  • Boccaccio, Privacy,and Partiality; Fiammetta and Decameron 10.3
  • 6. Adapting
  • Romantic Lines
  • Afterimages: Goethe and the Lily
  • Stems, Spirals, and the New Scientific Graphics
  • Overwriting: Balzac between Script and Scribble
  • Parallels, or Stendhal and the Line of the Self
  • Coda: Sebald's Bibliographic Vanishing Points
  • In Place of an Afterword: Next to the Book
  • Lection/Selection
  • "Book was there, it was there."
  • Besides:Toward a Translational Humanism
  • Beckett's "Eff"
  • Introduction Bibliographic Subjects 1
  • "Hypothesis: All is Leaf" 1
  • Books: Past, Present, and Future 4
  • Is Literary History Book History? 8
  • Bibliographic Romanticism 12
  • Romanticizing Books 13
  • 1 Networking 19
  • Fortresses of the Spirit 19
  • Rethinking the Book of Everything 21
  • The Novel as Network: J. W. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Travels 22
  • The Problem of the Where 26
  • The Ladies' Pocket-Book and the Excerpt 27
  • The Ausgabe letzter Hand and a Poetics of the Version 31
  • Cartography and the Novel 36
  • The Anatomy of the Book: The Work of Art as Technological Praparat 45
  • Coda: Faust and the Future 51
  • 2 Copying 53
  • Making Classics 53
  • The Combinatory Spirit and the Collected Edition 55
  • Producing Corporeal Integrity (Wieland, Byron, Rousseau) 58
  • Reprinting, Reproducibility, and the Novella Collection 64
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Serapion Brothers and the Crisis of Originality 67
  • "The Uncanny Guest" and the Poetics of the Same 70
  • The Plot of the Returning Husband 72
  • The Magnetic Doppelganger 74
  • The Whisper, Noise, and the Acoustics of Relocatability 76
  • The Collectivity of the Copy 79
  • Again 81
  • 3 Processing 85
  • Printing the Past (Intermediality and the Book I) 85
  • The Editor's Rise and Fall 87
  • Immaculate Reception: From Erneuung to Critical Edition (Tieck, Hagen, Lachmann) 89
  • Walter Scott, the Ballad, and the Book 97
  • The Borders of Books: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 101
  • Narrating Editing: The Historical Novel and the Tales of My Landlord 109
  • "By Heart" v. "From the Heart" in The Heart of Mid-Lothian 113
  • Producing Singularity 119
  • 4 Sharing 121
  • Assorted Books: The Romantic Miscellany (Almanacs, Taschenbucher, Gift-Books) 121
  • Common Right v. Copyright 125
  • Book-Keeping and the Inscription (Intermediality and the Book II) 128
  • Hollow Texts, Textual Hollows 138
  • The Problem of the "Of": Washington Irving's "An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron" 143
  • Sharing Sharing: Poe, Hawthorne, and Mrs. Chamberlain's "Jottings from an Old Journal" 148
  • 5 Overhearing 153
  • The Problem of Open Source 153
  • "Le commerce intellectuel" 160
  • Women, Translation, Transnation 163
  • Overheard in Translation: Sophie Mereau, La Princesse de Cleves and the Loose Confession 168
  • Maria de Zayas's Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and the Betrayal of Writing 173
  • Boccaccio, Privacy, and Partiality: Fiammetta and Decameron 10.3 177
  • 6 Adapting 183
  • Romantic Lines 183
  • Afterimages: Goethe and the Lily 189
  • Stems, Spirals, and the New Scientific Graphics 202
  • Overwriting: Balzac between Script and Scribble 210
  • Parallels, or Stendhal and the Line of the Self 222
  • Coda: Sebald's Bibliographic Vanishing Points 230