Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.
About the Author
MARY HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 and articles on writing, reading and publishing in the Victorian Edwardian periods. She is also co-editor of Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History.
ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature, Open University, UK. He is the author of books on Marcel Proust, Sir James Frazer, Victorian quest romance, print culture and various postcolonial literatures. A serial biographer, he is also a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Asiatic Society.
ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature, Open University, UK. He is the author of books on Marcel Proust, Sir James Frazer, Victorian quest romance, print culture and various postcolonial literatures. A serial biographer, he is also a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Asiatic Society.