Download or read book Bookish Histories written by I. Ferris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.