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The Ephemeral Eighteenth-Century: Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
326
Category
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✦ Synopsis

This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘All the Ephemera of Our Lives’
‘This Is Ephemera’: The 1960s and After
‘Non-book’ History
Ephemera and Its Relationship to the Print ‘Job’
Chapter Overview
Chapter 1 Accidental Readings and Diurnal Historiographies: The Invention of Ephemera
Band-Boxes and the Paper Scrap
Ephemerae and ‘Durable Volumes’
The Ephemeral 1790s
Chapter 2 Making Collections: Enlightenment Ephemerology
‘The Method Is . . . Tyme’
‘This I found’: Anthony Wood as Ephemera Collector
Plot Catalogues and Frost Fairs
Ephemeral Remains
Chapter 3 The Natural History of Sociability: Sarah Sophia Banks and Her Ephemera Collections
‘Id genus omne’: SSB as Collector
The ‘Social Life’ of the Ticket
Fashionable Sociability and the ‘Ticket System’
Sarah Sophia Banks’s ‘Sociablarium’
Chapter 4 Sarah Sophia Banks’s ‘Magic Encyclopedia’
Ballooning as Media History
Chapter 5 ‘Announcing Each Day the Performances’: Playbills as Theatre/Media History
Holding the Playbill to the Light
Dead Walls
Garnering the Playbill
‘THEATRE, SYDNEY’
Chapter 6 Transacting Hospitality: The Novel Networks of the Visiting Card
The Paper Economy of the Visiting Card
Card Dramas
Archiving a ‘Whole Life’
‘Withinside’: Binding Ephemera with the Novel
Chapter 7 England in 1814: Frost Fairs, Peace, and Persuasion
Frost Fair 1814
Ephemeral War and Peace
Papering Peace
Taking Apart the Royal Booth
Jane Austen’s Newsmen
Conclusion
Bibliography
Manuscripts and Archives
Prints and Drawings
Coins and Medals
Newspapers and Journals
Catalogues in Order by Date, Earliest to Latest
Other Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index

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