宮永孝：《日本洋学史：葡．羅．蘭．英．独．仏．露語の受容》（東京：三修社，2004）。
Edward Jacobs, "Eighteenth-century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History," Book History, 1 -21.
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Tuesday 16 October 2007
Book history & Imperial historiography
Robert Darnton, "What is the History of Books?" The Book History Reader
Antoinette Burton, “Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘Imperial Culture’ in Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain,” Women’s History Review, vol. 3, no. 4 (1994), 483 – 501.
Antoinette Burton, “Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘Imperial Culture’ in Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain,” Women’s History Review, vol. 3, no. 4 (1994), 483 – 501.
Monday 15 October 2007
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899, 1902).
Conrad's most acclaimed and controversial works. Finished one-fourth. Boring...indeed.
Conrad's most acclaimed and controversial works. Finished one-fourth. Boring...indeed.
Sunday 14 October 2007
K & W part I
Kelly & Walsh's Hand-book to Hongkong (1893, 1908).
Why the original 1893 edition could not be checked out or photographed? BTW, the Xerox copy of the 1908 edition in the HKUL seems to be from the National Diet Library, Japan. From Faure? Lee?
Why the original 1893 edition could not be checked out or photographed? BTW, the Xerox copy of the 1908 edition in the HKUL seems to be from the National Diet Library, Japan. From Faure? Lee?
Saturday 13 October 2007
Imperial publishing
Today's reading:
Leslie Howsam, "Imperial Publishers And The Idea Of Colonial History, 1870-1916," History of Intellectual Culture, vol. 5, no. 1 (2005).
http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/website/2005/papers/lhowsam_frameset.html
Abstract
Drawing on correspondence in their archives, this article discusses British publishers' engagement with the problem of colonial history from the 1870s to 1916. This was the period when history was becoming professionalized but, apart from J.R. Seeley, few academic historians were writing marketable books on imperial subjects. The publishers turned instead to colonial administrators or journalists while failing to recognize the originality of texts by colonists themselves. The methodology is a juxtaposition of historiographical issues with those raised by scholarship in the history of the book and print culture. The publishing history of Seeley's Expansion of England (Macmillan, 1883) is followed by three case studies concerning imperial narratives in English publishing houses: Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and Macmillan & Co. The central argument is that the agency of publishers in the composition and conceptualization, as well as the marketing, of colonial histories has been neglected. The essay nuances the debates about early imperial historiography and enriches book-history scholarship by extending its methodologies to non-fictional sources.
Leslie Howsam, "Imperial Publishers And The Idea Of Colonial History, 1870-1916," History of Intellectual Culture, vol. 5, no. 1 (2005).
http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/website/2005/papers/lhowsam_frameset.html
Abstract
Drawing on correspondence in their archives, this article discusses British publishers' engagement with the problem of colonial history from the 1870s to 1916. This was the period when history was becoming professionalized but, apart from J.R. Seeley, few academic historians were writing marketable books on imperial subjects. The publishers turned instead to colonial administrators or journalists while failing to recognize the originality of texts by colonists themselves. The methodology is a juxtaposition of historiographical issues with those raised by scholarship in the history of the book and print culture. The publishing history of Seeley's Expansion of England (Macmillan, 1883) is followed by three case studies concerning imperial narratives in English publishing houses: Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and Macmillan & Co. The central argument is that the agency of publishers in the composition and conceptualization, as well as the marketing, of colonial histories has been neglected. The essay nuances the debates about early imperial historiography and enriches book-history scholarship by extending its methodologies to non-fictional sources.
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