A new perspective on the disjunction between book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century that shaped the contours of the modern literary sphere.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Bookish Outliers
PART I: URBAN ASSOCIATIONS

1. Unmooring the Literary Word
2. Typographical Consciousness and the Dissolution of Authorship
3. Printing Clubs and the Question of the Archive
   PART II: BEYOND THE METROPOLIS
4. On the Borders of the Reading Public
5. A Provincial Itinerary: Reading the Journals of John Marsh
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index