The ephemeral eighteenth century : print, sociability and the cultures of collecting / Gillian Russ...
The ephemeral eighteenth century : print, sociability and the cultures of collecting / Gillian Russ...
The ephemeral eighteenth century : print, sociability and the cultures of collecting / Gillian Russell.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2021/3399
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English
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xii, 303 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: 'All the ephemera of our lives' -- Accidental readings and diurnal historiographies: the invention of ephemera -- Making collections: enlightenment ephemerology -- The natural history of sociability: Sarah Sophia Banks and her ephemera collections -- Sarah Sophia Banks's 'magic encyclo...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustrated with examples from across the period, Gillian Russell examines the emergence of the cultural category of printed ephemera, its relationship w...
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The ephemeral eighteenth century : print, sociability and the cultures of collecting / Gillian Russell.
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2021/3399
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74VKarrze4Zl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarrze4Zl
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9781108487580
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002.09
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991024443729002626
