Revisiting the Romantic period as one of revolution, abolitionism, and mass print, Emily Wing Rohrbach explores the bound book's political force across literary genres. Innovative readings illuminate interplays of meaning between poetics and material format, showing how Romantics thought carefully, and sometimes anxiously, about the material forms in which their words would circulate. They understood the book's capacity to expose the cultural status quo as a product of choice and chance.
Rohrbach puts conventionally 'Romantic' authors, such as Keats and Landon, in conversation with early Black Atlantic authors from the perspective of book history for the first time. She thus reveals an association between a politics of social equality and the book as a reading technology that is visible, however unevenly, across these authors' works. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available open access.
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| ISBN: | 9781009789523 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2026 |
| Author: | Emily Rohrbach |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 250 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Classic fiction: general and literary Book design and Bookbinding Classic and pre-20th century poetry |
Revisiting the Romantic period as one of revolution, abolitionism, and mass print, Emily Wing Rohrbach explores the bound book's political force across literary genres. Innovative readings illuminate interplays of meaning between poetics and material format, showing how Romantics thought carefully, and sometimes anxiously, about the material forms in which their words would circulate.
Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Classic fiction: general and literary, Book design and Bookbinding, Classic and pre-20th century poetry
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Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading was written by Emily Rohrbach and published by Cambridge University Press
Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading has 250 pages
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