Bookish Histories

BARBARA M. BENEDICT, Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, USASIMON DURING, Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, USATHOMAS KEYMER, Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, CanadaDEIDRE LYNCH, Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, CanadaJON KLANCHER, Associate Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USAMICHAEL MACOVSKI, Associate Professor at Georgetown University, USAWILLIAM R. MCKELVY, Associate Professor of English at Washington University in Saint Louis, USAANDREW PIPER, Assistant Professor of German Studies at McGill University, CanadaLEAH PRICE, Professor of English at Harvard University, USABETTY A. SCHELLENBERG, Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Towards a Bookish Literary History; I.Ferris  & P.Keen PART ONE: RECONFIGURING LITERARY HISTORY Wild Bibliography: The Rise and Fall Book History in Nineteenth-Century Britain; J.Klancher 'Uncommon Animals': Making Virtue of Necessity in the Age of Authors; P.Keen Making Literary History in the Age of Steam; W.McKelvy PART TWO: BOOKS IN THE EVERYDAY Canons' Clockwork: Novels for Everyday Use; D.Lynch Book-Love and the Remaking of Literary Culture in the Romantic Periodical; I.Ferris The Art of Sharing: Reading in the Romantic Miscellany; A.Piper Getting the Reading Out of London Labor; L.Price PART THREE: REMAPPING THE LITERARY FIELD Reading Collections: The Literary Discourse of Eighteenth-Century Libraries; B.M.Benedict Imagining Hegel: Bookish Form and the Romantic Synopticon; M.Macovski 'The Society of Agreeable and Worthy Companions': Bookishness and Manuscript Culture after 1750; B.A.Schellenberg The Practice and Poetics of Curlism: Print, Obscenity, and the Merryland Pamphlets in the Career of Edmund Curll; T.Keymer Charlatanism and Resentment in London's Mid-Eighteenth Century Literary Marketplace; S.During Index