Description
About the Author
David Finkelstein was Head of the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee. A specialist print culture studies and media history, he is author of works such as The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (2002), An Introduction to Book History (2006), and Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930 (2006), the latter of which was awarded the Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its contribution to the study of periodical press history.
Reviews
David Finkelstein's study is a timely one - to use a printing term, a justified history. * Times Literary Supplement *
In three densely argued and fact-filled chapters, David Finkelstein provides an outstanding account of how locally shaped nineteenth-century compositors operated within global contexts... Movable Types is an impressive achievement that will hopefully stimulate extensive scholarly engagement. * Sandro Jung, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society *
Unlike most trade union journals which are dominated by detailed discussion of wages and conditions, those described here contain a great deal of literary material * Robert Laurie, Scottish Labour History *
this volume is intended for a wider readership than simply the printing historian. Movable Types is a reflection on the experience of nineteenth-century print workers within a dynamic and changing trade. Finkelstein argues that only by appreciating the infrastructure and mechanisms that underpinned the industry can we understand the formation and structure of local and transnational print economies. * Caroline Archer-Parre, Publishing History *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198826026
Author David Finkelstein
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 466g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 163mm * 19mm