Verfasst von:	Hayes, Kevin J. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The future of the book
Titelzusatz:	images of reading in the american utopian novel
Verf.angabe:	Kevin J Hayes
Ausgabe:	First edition
Verlagsort:	Oxford
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
Jahr:	2022
Umfang:	xi, 232 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis Seite [213] - 225
ISBN:	978-0-19-285688-3
Abstract:	"The Future of the Book: Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel looks at how turn-of-the-century utopian novelists imagined what the book would be like in the ideal future. This works examines many different aspects of book culture. One chapter looks at the utopian residential library, both its contents and its personal and social functions. In the ideal future, everyone has books in their home. Another chapter discusses the public library in utopia. Many of the innovations the utopian novelists imagined correct problems that real public libraries faced in late nineteenth-century America. In utopia, everyone knows how to use the public library. A third chapter shifts the discussion of books and reading from the place of consumption to the place of production, looking at the role of the author in utopia. This chapter also attempts to answer a vexing question: Can an ideal world produce great literature? The utopian novelists said yes, but the novels they imagined in the future make their conclusions more circumspect. A parallel chapter studies what the utopian newspaper would be like. Some utopian novelists projected alternative news media, foreseeing technology that anticipated television and the internet. The final chapter examines what printed books would look like in the ideal future, looking at graphic design, universal languages and methods to assure that the books would be printed without censorship or editorial intrusion"--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780192856883.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (s)Roman    / (s)Utopie    / (z)Geschichte 1890-1910
	(g)USA    / (s)Roman    / (s)Utopie    / (s)Buch <Motiv>    / (s)Lesen <Motiv>    / (z)Geschichte 1890-1910
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Hayes, Kevin J., 1959 - : The Future of the Book. - Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (247 Seiten)
K10plus-PPN:	1797670794