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Book Review" Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age by Andrew Piper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010
Ist Teil von
Goethe Yearbook, 2011, Vol.18, p.325
Ort / Verlag
Rochester: Boydell & Brewer
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION eBooks)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]Piper adds another, perhaps more surprising guiding thesis: at what seems to many observers - though not to Piper, to be sure - the twilight of the book era, many of the concepts used to describe what is supposedly new about communication in the internet age map quite snugly onto the forms of communication that were established by, and in turn helped establish, the dominance of the book in the late eighteenth century. [...]Piper tells the story of the book "not as a narrative of rise and fall, but ... as a series of social, historical, and technological negotiations" (236). Piper starts out from the simple suggestion that, given the incredibly convoluted genesis of the book we purchase under that title today, it might make more sense to speak of a "network" of interrelated and interacting texts rather than relying on a ideological model by which the earlier texts are simply fragments striving for the final fulfillment of their destiny between the covers of a physical book. In picking up on these discussions, Piper once again grounds the phenomenon in the material world of physical books, drawing our attention to "the commercialism of women's writing."