{"product_id":"the-myth-of-print-culture-joseph-a-dane-9780802087751","title":"The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Print Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a critique of bibliographical and editorial method, focusing on the disparity between levels of material evidence (unique and singular) and levels of text (abstract and reproducible). It demonstrates how the particulars of evidence are manipulated in standard scholarly arguments by the higher levels of textuality they are intended to support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe individual studies in the book focus on a range of problems: basic definitions of what a book is; statistical assumptions; and editorial methods used to define and collate the presumably basic unit of 'variant.' This work differs from other recent studies in print culture in its emphasis on fifteenth-century books and its insistence that the problems encountered in that historical milieu (problems as basic as cataloguing errors) are the same as problems encountered in other areas of literary criticism. The difficulties in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial, and literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph A. Dane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802087752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802087751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.34w x 1.00d","brand":"Joseph A. Dane","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065134657791,"sku":"9780802087751","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e25b3d98-c04c-4aff-9988-02a54c556132.jpg?v=1768673222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-myth-of-print-culture-joseph-a-dane-9780802087751","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}