The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and Its Creators. Peter Isaac , Barry McKay

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-581
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Human Face

scholarly journals The Jesuitesses in the Bookshop: Catholic Lay Sisters’ Participation in the Dutch Book Trade, 1650–1750

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Elise Watson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Dutch Book ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Institutional Critique ◽  
Public Criticism

The institutional Catholic Church in seventeenth-century Amsterdam relied on the work of inspired women who lived under an informal religious rule and called themselves ‘spiritual daughters’. Once the States of Holland banned all public exercise of Catholicism, spiritual daughters leveraged the ambiguity of their religious status to pursue unique roles in their communities as catechists, booksellers and enthusiastic consumers of print. However, their lack of a formal order caused consternation among their Catholic confessors. It also disturbed Reformed authorities in their communities, who branded them ‘Jesuitesses’. Whilst many scholars have documented this tension between inspired daughter and institutional critique, it has yet to be contextualized fully within the literary culture of the Dutch Republic. This article suggests that due to the de-institutionalized status of the spiritual daughters and the discursive print culture that surrounded them, public criticism replaced direct censure by Catholic and Reformed authorities as the primary impediment to their inspired work.

PRINT CULTURE AND ITS PUBLICS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BOOKSTORES IN TEHRAN, 1900–1950

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afshin Marashi
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article investigates the evolution of print culture and commerce in Tehran during the first half of the 20th century. The first section examines technological changes that facilitated the commercialization of texts and then details the history of early print entrepreneurs in the Tehran bazaar. The second section examines the expansion of the book trade between the 1920s and 1940s, tracing the emergence of modern bookstores in a rapidly changing Tehran. I argue that patterns of change in print commerce between 1900 and 1950 contributed to the emergence of mass culture by midcentury. This new mass culture involved the social and political empowerment of a diversity of new reading publics in the city, and enabled the emergence of new forms of popular politics.

“The Light of Printing“: William Tyndale, John Foxe, John Day, and Early Modern Print Culture*

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. King
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
John Foxe ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Publishing Career ◽  
John Day

John Foxe, the martyrologist, and John Day, the Elizabethan master printer, played central roles in the emergence of literate print culture following the death of William Tyndale, translator of the New Testament and parts of the Bible into English. In so doing, Foxe and his publisher contributed to the accepted modern belief that Protestantism and early printing reinforced each other. Foxe's revision of his biography of Tyndale in the second edition of Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days (1570) and his collaboration on Day's 1573 publication of Tyndale's collected non-translation prose place intense stress upon the trio's active involvement in the English book trade. The engagement of Foxe and Day with Tyndale's publishing career exemplifies ways in which these bookmen exploited the power of the printing press to effect religious and cultural

The Prospectus War of the 1790s

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-77
Author(s):  
David Duff
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Effect ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
London Corresponding Society ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

Prospectuses, a type of printed advertisement widely used in the eighteenth-century book trade, played a vital but previously unexamined role in the French Revolution controversy, attracting subscribers to political publications and encapsulating their message. Focusing on journal and newspaper prospectuses, which proliferated in the 1790s, this article analyzes examples from across the political spectrum, including the prospectus for the Argus by the radical journalist Sampson Perry, George Canning’s hugely influential prospectus to the Anti-Jacobin, and other examples by William Playfair, the London Corresponding Society, and other individuals and organizations. This article shows how prospectus writers exploited the distinctive resources of the genre, adapting its promissory rhetoric and hyperbolic language for political effect. It also investigates how prospectuses interacted with other forms of writing and publication, mirroring the techniques of pamphlets and contributing to the polemical intertextuality that was a feature of the Revolution debate. For all its ephemerality, the genre had a powerful impact, serving all sides of the dispute and marking a convergence of literature, politics, and advertising that typifies the innovative print culture of this period.

Beyond Tauchnitz: Brockhaus’s Foreign-Language Editions, Copyright Law and the Rise of Nationalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-53
Author(s):  
Alberto Gabriele
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Book Industry ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
European Continent ◽  
History Of

AbstractExpanding the existing framework of a Franco-German axis of dissemination of print culture, this essay discusses a pan-European geography of the book trade to account for the dissemination of foreign-language editions circulating from the nineteenth-century Leipzig book industry and connecting publishers all over the European continent. More specifically, it reconsiders the history of the Brockhaus firm by highlighting its transnational links and the shared practices of the European publishers prior to copyright legislation and the rise of nationalism.

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