{"product_id":"the-book-unbound","title":"The Book Unbound","description":"\u003ctable cellspacing=\"1\" id=\"jacket_table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd id=\"catalog\" rowspan=\"2}\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow does our understanding of Romantic literature change when we shift the focus from bound books to unbound forms? Assumptions about the book as a bound object have isolated literature from overlapping material cultures of book making, reading, viewing, and collecting. The Book Unbound reconstructs a Romantic textual condition of unbound forms in which the book acted as a repository for open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts, and serial publications, ca. 1750–1850. Three case studies trace changing material practices of book making before and after publisher's bindings marked a turning point from a culture of unbound books. Through the restricted coterie gathered around Horace Walpole's private press at Strawberry Hill, William Blake's printmaker-poet's book making, and Charles Dickens's serialized part publications, this monograph changes understandings of the book as a medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56728073535874,"sku":"9781009599986","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0475\/2031\/7597\/files\/9781009599986i.jpg?v=1782205131","url":"https:\/\/www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-book-unbound","provider":"Cambridge University Press Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}