SENTIMENT AND MATERIALITY IN LATE VICTORIAN BOOK COLLECTING
| Autor: | David C. Hanson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Victorian Literature and Culture. 43:785-820 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1553 1060-1503 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1060150315000261 |
| Popis: | In the first half of the twentieth century, analytic bibliographers in Britain turned their attention to the systematic study of the nineteenth-century book. Developing their subject, they felt compelled to distance themselves from the Victorian book collector, who touched off a “suspicion . . . deeply ingrained in the mind of scholars and librarians” (Sadleir, “Development” 147). A new generation of bibliographers – Michael Sadleir, John Carter, and Graham Pollard – acknowledged that Victorian collecting had laid the foundations for the bibliographic study of books by “modern” (i.e., nineteenth-century) writers, as opposed to incunabula, the traditional focus of British book collecting. The contribution was regarded as fundamentally flawed, however, owing to a “sentimental element” in Victorian collecting (Carter and Pollard 101). |
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