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An introduction: thinking about the history of the book
- Abstract:
- This chapter considers the different ways in which bibliographers and book historians have in the past responded to one astonishingly popular book, Eikon Basilike: The Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, in order to survey the kinds of stories scholars have in the past told about the production, circulation, and consumption of books. The chapter reflects critically on these stories, and considers other possible ways of thinking about books. The chapter concludes by considerirng the ‘politics of citation’, and the way bibliography and book history have in the past rehearsed an unhelpfully narrow and excluding narrative of its origins and development.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198846239.013.1
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+ Smyth, A
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- English
- Oxford college:
- Balliol College
- Role:
- Editor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-9327-0514
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Pages:
- 3-19
- Chapter number:
- 1
- Series:
- Oxford Handbooks
- Place of publication:
- Oxford / New York
- Publication date:
- 2023-09-18
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9780191881336
- ISBN:
- 9780198846239
- Language:
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English
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1787475
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- Deposit date:
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- Copyright holder:
- Adam Smyth
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © the several contributors 2023.
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