At one major publishing house, there is a running joke that the second book published on the Gutenberg press was about the death of the publishing business. Whi
During the early part of the eighteenth century, the growth of the book trades depended upon a series of technological advances. With each innovation, new forms
The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye’s influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in o
Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of