Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series)
by:
McKenzie, D. F.
McDonald, Peter D. (Editor)
Suarez, Michael F., S.J. (Editor)
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press
Published:June 1, 2002
ISBN:1558493360
Format:Paperback
Pages:360
Description:
Michael Winship, University of Texas, Austin
...an important collection, one that should have broad appeal.
Product Description:
"The greatest bibliographer of our time," was how historian Robert Darnton described D. F. McKenzie. Yet until
now many of McKenzie's major essays, scattered in specialist journals and inaccessible publications, have circulated mainly in tattered photocopies. This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's former students, brings together for the first time a wide range
of his writings on bibliography, the book trade, and the "sociology of texts." Selected by the author himself before his sudden death in 1999, the essays range from the material transmission of Shakespeare's plays in the seventeenth century to the
connections among oral, manuscript, and print cultures. "Making Meaning" reflects McKenzie's virtuosity as a traditional bibliographer and reveals how his thought-provoking scholarship made him a driving force in the genesis and development of the new
interdisciplinary field of book history. His refusal to recognize the traditional boundary between bibliography and literary history re-energized the study of the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of book production and reception. The
editors' introduction and head-notes situate McKenzie's innovative and controversial thinking in the debates of his time.
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