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Alastair Fowler - The Mind of the Book, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

The Mind of the Book

Pictorial Title-Pages

Av Alastair Fowler

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Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the firsttime. The first part of The Mind of the Book explores the forerunner of the frontispiece in late antiquity; the use of frames and borders in title-pages; portraits; printers' devices; emblematic title-pages of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially attending to explanatory verses and arcane features such as chronograms; title-pages as 'memory prompts'; and eighteenth and nineteenth-century title-pages, tracing 'the rejection of emblematic and symbolic features and the introduction of unadorned, unpictorial, title-pages'. The second part of the book presents illustrations of sixteen significant title-pages with commentaries, ranging from Chaucer's Works in 1532 through Bacon's Instauratio Magna in 1620, Dicken's The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1870, and arriving back at Chaucer with Edward Burnes-Jones's illustrated title-page for the Works of 1896.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-02-23
  • Mått: 172 x 240 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 490 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 234
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780198717669
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Alastair Fowler is Regius Professor Emeritus of Edinburgh University, and was previously Professor of English at the University of Virginia. For many years he divided his time between the United States and Britain, where he now lives. His publications include an annotated edition of Paradise Lost (1968); Kinds of Literature (1982); Renaissance Realism (2003); and Literary Names (2012).

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The text is concise and written with a clarity that shows Fowler unfailingly keeps his reader in mind. Sources do not clutter or obscure the body of the text, while plentiful footnotes reveal the depth of Fowler's research, offering many useful points of reference ... This area of book history deserves such careful appreciation, and Fowler does justice to his subject in this eloquent short book, which will no doubt encourage readers to attend more closely to the conventions, wider cultural significance, and intricate beauty to be found in so many title-pages.

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