The brand of print : marketing paratexts in the early English book trade / by Andie Silva.

Silva, Andie,
The brand of print :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789004410244 (electronic book)
9789004410237 (print)
Yer Numarası
DK/6000
Yayın Bilgisi
Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
Library of the Written Word; volume76
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Includes bibliographical references and index.
İçindekiler Notu
Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Andie Silva -- Acknowledgements / Andie Silva -- List of Illustrations / Andie Silva -- Abbreviations / Andie Silva -- Transcription and Editorial Practice / Andie Silva -- Introduction / Andie Silva -- “In Sundry Hands”: Patronage, Human Capital, and Print Agents as Tastemakers / Andie Silva -- “Read, Reape, and Returne”: Emotional Branding and the Profit of Reading / Andie Silva -- “Before thou begynneth to read”: Visual Consumption as Brand / Andie Silva -- “An Instrument of Iron”: Commodifying Gender and Devotion with Emotional Capital in Queen Elizabeth’s A Godly Meditation of the Soul / Andie Silva -- “Printed in Utopia”: Marketing Genre across a Century / Andie Silva -- Immaterial Labour, Mass Intellectuality, and the New Digital Agents / Andie Silva -- Conclusion / Andie Silva -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Andie Silva -- Index / Andie Silva.
Özet, vb.
The Brand of Print offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways printers, publishers, stationers, and booksellers designed paratexts to market printed books as cultural commodities. This study traces envoys to the reader, visual design in title pages and tables of contents, and patron dedications, illustrating how the agents of print branded their markets by crafting relationships with readers and articulating the value of their labor in an increasingly competitive trade. Applying terms from contemporary marketing theory to the study of early modern paratexts, Andie Silva encourages a consideration of how print agents' labor and agency, made visible through paratextual design, continues to influence how we read, study, and digitize early modern texts.
Konu
Book industries and trade __ England __ History __ 16th century.
Book industries and trade __ England __ History __ 17th century.
Paratext __ England __ History.
Books __ England __ Marketing __ History.