The accidental growth of book history : a literature review of print culture and book history studies in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorLe Roux, Elizabeth Henriette
dc.contributor.emailbeth.leroux@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-15T14:14:44Z
dc.date.available2014-01-31T00:20:04Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe study of book history is in its infancy in South Africa, with a small group of scholars working in the area and little sense of a shared body of literature, which could be used as foundational texts for those wishing to conduct research in this fi eld. This article describes an attempt to map the terrain of book and print culture studies in South Africa to date. Although it is only in recent years that writings have come to be grouped under a broader heading of book history (whether at conferences or in special issues of journals), work has been done in this fi eld since the early twentieth century. This is similar to the situation in other countries, where the ‘accidental’ growth of book history has meant that a great deal of work has been done on a wide variety of relevant topics. The article describes key strands in the literature, including print history, publishing history, the overlap with literary history, and studies of readership and reception.en_US
dc.description.librarianam2013en_US
dc.identifier.citationLe Roux, E 2013, 'The accidental growth of book history : a literature review of print culture and book history studies in South Africa', Mousaion, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 39-64.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0027-2639
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/21068
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUnisa Pressen_US
dc.rights© Unisa Pressen_US
dc.subjectBook historyen_US
dc.subjectLiterary historyen_US
dc.subjectLiterature reviewen_US
dc.subjectPrint cultureen_US
dc.subjectPrint historyen_US
dc.subjectPublishing historyen_US
dc.subjectReadership studiesen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subject.lcshHistory publishing
dc.titleThe accidental growth of book history : a literature review of print culture and book history studies in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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