{"product_id":"thinking-outside-the-book-augusta-rohrbach-9781625341266","title":"Thinking Outside the Book","description":"In\u003ci\u003e Thinking Outside the Book, \u003c\/i\u003e Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely cohort of nineteenth-century women writers--Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnut--to consider the publishing culture of their period from the perspective of our current digital age, bringing together scholarly concepts from both print culture and new media studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn nineteenth-century America, women from a variety of racial and class affiliations were bombarding the print market with their literary productions, taking advantage of burgeoning rates of literacy and advances in publishing technology. Their work challenged prevailing modes of authorship and continues to do so today. Each chapter of \u003ci\u003eThinking Outside the Book\u003c\/i\u003e positions a focal figure as both paradigmatic and problematic within the context of key terms that define the study of the book. In lieu of terms such as\u003ci\u003e literacy, authorship, publication, edition\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eeditor\u003c\/i\u003e, Rohrbach develops an alternate typology that includes \u003ci\u003emediation, memory, history, testimony\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eloss\u003c\/i\u003e. Recognizing that the field spans radio, cinema, television, and the Internet, she draws comparisons to the present day, when Web 2.0 allows writers from varying backgrounds and positions to seek out readers without \"gatekeepers\" limiting their exposure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than a literary history, this book takes up theories of recovery, literacy, authorship, narrative, the book, and new media in connection with race, gender, class, and region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Augusta Rohrbach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625341261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625341266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 5.76w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 1315","brand":"Augusta Rohrbach","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46420311474431,"sku":"9781625341266","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7024f5ff-4991-4750-8c83-53cc375cae90.jpg?v=1734634257","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-outside-the-book-augusta-rohrbach-9781625341266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}