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Victorian Literature and Culture Ser.: Author and Printer in Victorian England by Allan C. Dooley (1992, Hardcover)
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Author: Dooley, Allan C. (Author). Publisher: University of Virginia Press. Number of Pages: 208. Weight: 1.05 lbs. Publication Date: 1992-10-27. ISBN13: 9780813914015.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN-100813914019
ISBN-139780813914015
eBay Product ID (ePID)810088
Product Key Features
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAuthor and Printer in Victorian England
SubjectPublishing, Graphic Arts / Typography, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1992
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Design, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorAllan C. Dooley
SeriesVictorian Literature and Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN92-010420
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal820.9008
SynopsisIn a unique fusion of literary history and printing history, Allan C. Dooley explores the interactions between individual authors and their publishers and printers. He takes the reader through each stage of a work's development, illustrating how authors attempted to perfect and protect their writings from compositional manuscript through stereotyped reprints., Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the text would read-author, compositor, printer's reader, or publisher? In a unique fusion of literary history and printing history, Allan C. Dooley explores the interactions between individual authors and their publishers and printers. He takes the reader through each stage of a work's development, illustrating how authors attempted to perfect and protect their writings from compositional manuscript through stereotyped reprints. His analysis includes details of a wide range of technical innovations and changes in practices in the printing of books between the development of printing machines in the 1830s and 1840s and the introduction of the Linotype in the 1890s. Drawing on the experiences of leading Victorian authors, he shows how nineteenth-century printing practices both enhanced and diminished writers' abilities to control texts. He reveals that much more was under their control than has commonly been believed and that many authors took advantage of printing technologies in order to gain and maintain control over the texts of their works. But new kinds of errors and new sources of inaccuracy were introduced by the technology as well.
LC Classification NumberPR468.T48D66 1992
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