Thinking Outside the Book
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alternative book studies
alternative literary canons
alternative typology design
archival literary politics
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authorship without gatekeepers
book history terminology
book studies methodology
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class-based literary access
cross-media literary theory
cultural artifact interpretation
democratized literary exposure
digital humanities convergence
disruptive authorship models
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evolving publication ethics
feminist publishing scholarship
historical reading publics
historical remediation analysis
independent reader networks
literacy technology history
literary artifact theory
literary mediation frameworks
literary public sphere shifts
marginalized writer recovery
material text culture
media archaeology approaches
media ecology perspectives
mediated storytelling practices
memory-centered authorship
narrative circulation patterns
narrative evidence theory
new media comparisons
nineteenth century women authors
nineteenth-century print boom
participatory reading culture
print culture evolution
print market expansion
print-digital hybridity
proto-digital publishing parallels
publishing technology impact
racialized authorship history
racialized publishing barriers
regional literary formations
subaltern literary agency
testimony as narrative form
textual loss studies
textual materiality debates
textual recovery projects
transmedia historical insight
Web 2.0 literacy
women's authorship challenges
women's print interventions
Product details
- ISBN 9781625341266
- Weight: 299g
- Dimensions: 146 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2014
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely cohort of nineteenth-century women writers—Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnut—to consider the publishing culture of their period from the perspective of our current digital age, bringing together scholarly concepts from both print culture and new media studies.
In nineteenth-century America, women from a variety of racial and class affiliations were bombarding the print market with their literary productions, taking advantage of burgeoning rates of literacy and advances in publishing technology. Their work challenged prevailing modes of authorship and continues to do so today. Each chapter of Thinking Outside the Book positions a focal figure as both paradigmatic and problematic within the context of key terms that define the study of the book. In lieu of terms such as literacy, authorship, publication, edition, and editor, Rohrbach develops an alternate typology that includes mediation, memory, history, testimony, and loss. Recognizing that the field spans radio, cinema, television, and the Internet, she draws comparisons to the present day, when Web 2.0 allows writers from varying backgrounds and positions to seek out readers without “gatekeepers” limiting their exposure.
More than a literary history, this book takes up theories of recovery, literacy, authorship, narrative, the book, and new media in connection with race, gender, class, and region.
In nineteenth-century America, women from a variety of racial and class affiliations were bombarding the print market with their literary productions, taking advantage of burgeoning rates of literacy and advances in publishing technology. Their work challenged prevailing modes of authorship and continues to do so today. Each chapter of Thinking Outside the Book positions a focal figure as both paradigmatic and problematic within the context of key terms that define the study of the book. In lieu of terms such as literacy, authorship, publication, edition, and editor, Rohrbach develops an alternate typology that includes mediation, memory, history, testimony, and loss. Recognizing that the field spans radio, cinema, television, and the Internet, she draws comparisons to the present day, when Web 2.0 allows writers from varying backgrounds and positions to seek out readers without “gatekeepers” limiting their exposure.
More than a literary history, this book takes up theories of recovery, literacy, authorship, narrative, the book, and new media in connection with race, gender, class, and region.
Augusta Rohrbach is associate professor of English at Washington State University. She is the editor of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and author of Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace.
