The unfinished book

Assessing a wide variety of particular books, book-like objects, and book collections, and working with millennia of variable and conflicting definitions of the book and its purposes, The Unfinished Book surveys the many things that books have been, and uncovers why the book's grip on the cultu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gillespie, Alexandra (Editor), Lynch, Deidre (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2020, 2020
Series:Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature / Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature
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Collection: Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Assessing a wide variety of particular books, book-like objects, and book collections, and working with millennia of variable and conflicting definitions of the book and its purposes, The Unfinished Book surveys the many things that books have been, and uncovers why the book's grip on the cultural imagination remains so tenacious
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2020
Physical Description:1 online resource (528 pages)
ISBN:9780191904172