Space

Smith, Steven C.

doi:10.1353/eam.2018.0047

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The Spaces of Bookselling

Highland

2023

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The spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. More than static backgrounds for bookselling, these dynamic spaces both shape individual and collective behaviors and perceptions and are shaped by the values and practices of booksellers and book buyers. This Element focuses primarily on bookselling in the United States from the 19th through the 21st centuries and examines three key bookselling spaces-the store, the street, and the catalogue. Following an introduction, the second section considers how the material space of bookstores shapes social engagement in and cultural values associated with the bookstore. The third section turns to itinerant and sidewalk booksellers and the ways in which they use the physical, social, and legal space of the street to craft geographies of belonging. And the final section pages through bookseller catalogues, examining them as a significant genre that works to spatialize the bookstore.

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The Spaces of Bookselling

Highland

2023

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Afterword: Translation and the Histories and Geographies of the Book

Littáu¹

2019

Comparative Critical Studies

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To write an Afterword is to write a text that is both within the bound pages of the volume in which it appears, and outside its principal content. Paratextual and liminal, 2 therefore, an Afterword serves as a framing device that comes afterwards and is accordingly placed at the volume's end. As such, it is spatially and temporally distinct from what precedes it. It is back matter and therefore an optional extra -an afterthought -to the work already accomplished by the editors of and the contributors to this collection. My Afterword is by no means the last or final word in the sense that it would 'finish off, close or conclude' 3 a conversation on the intersections of translation and book history that promises many more after-words, among which these are merely preliminary. I want to use this space, granted to me so generously by the editors, to reflect more generally on the pathways these essays have collectively opened up.

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