| ISBN |
0975150014 (pbk.) |
| Title |
Books & empire : textual production, distribution and consumption in colonial and postcolonial countries / edited by Paul Eggert & Elizabeth Webby |
| Publisher |
Wagga Wagga, NSW : Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2005 |
| Physical desc. |
199 p. ; ill. (b&w), port. ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
Papers of a conference held by the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, in conjunction with the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, at the University of Sydney, 30 Jan.-1 Feb. 2003. |
| Special issue of the BSANZ bulletin (Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand), v. 28, nos. 1-2 (2004). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Orger and Meryon: booksellers to the Colony / Keith Adkins -- Gordon and Gotch from the 1940s to the present: regional distribution and integration in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea / Denis Cryle -- Books in the bush: the library of the Langtons of Upper Canada, Canada West / Mary Jane Edwards -- The roots of popular participation in literature in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman -- Nineteenth-century libraries in the hill stations of British North India / Nirmolini V. Flora -- "Under a deceptious mask:" H.D. Symonds and the publication of Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales / Nathan Garvey -- Deneys Reitz and imperial co-option / John Gouws -- Colonizing through French-language textbooks in Indochina / Marie-Paule Ha -- The nineteenth-century Australian inland exploration journal and pleasurable instruction / Kerry Heckenberg -- Unfortunate omission: editing women out of the Anzac legend / Caroline Viera Jones -- Reading and writing colonial women: publication and representation in French colonial North Africa / Leonard R. Koos -- Marketing Japan's literature in its 1930s colonies / Edward Mack -- Books and the nation: aspects of publishing and national identity / James McCall -- Tobacco, matches and writing paper: colonial survival strategies in rural New Zealand, 1880-1925 / Sydney J. Shep -- Immeasurable abysses and living books: oral literature and Victorian poetics in Alfred Domett's Ranolf and Amohia / Jane Stafford -- Just a weekly compendium?: the independence of The queenslander -- Reading on the farm: a study of the Brancepeth farm library / Lydia Wevers. |
| Subject |
Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Congresses |
| Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- Colonies -- Congresses |
| Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Congresses |
| Publishers and publishing -- France -- Colonies -- Congresses |
| Books and reading -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Congresses |
| Books and reading -- France -- Colonies -- Congresses |
| Women -- Books and reading -- Africa, North |
| Added name(s) |
Eggert, Paul 1951- |
| Webby, Elizabeth |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand |
