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Books Without Borders, Volume 1 Also by Robert Fraser BOOK HISTORY THROUGH POSTCOLONIAL EYES: Re-writing the Script PROUST AND THE VICTORIANS: The Lamp of Memory THE MAKING OF THE GOLDEN BOUGH: The Origins and Growth of an Argument LIFTING THE SENTENCE: A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction VICTORIAN QUEST ROMANCE: Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle WEST AFRICAN POETRY: A Critical History Also by Mary Hammond READING, PUBLISHING AND THE FORMATION OF LITERARY TASTE IN ENGLAND, 1880–1914 PUBLISHING IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Essays in Book History (co-editor with Shafquat Towheed) Books Without Borders, Volume 1 The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture Edited by Robert Fraser Open University, UK and Mary Hammond University of Southampton, UK Introduction,selection and editorial matter © Robert Fraser and Mary Hammond 2008 All chapters © Individual contributors 2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-0-230-21029-5 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-30288-8 ISBN 978-0-230-28911-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230289116 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Books without borders / edited by Robert Fraser and Mary Hammond. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13:978-1-349-30288-8 (v.1 :alk.paper) [etc.] 1. Books—History. 2. Book industries and trade—History. 3. Books and reading—History. 4. Literature and globalization. 5. Globalization. 6. Civilization,Modern. I. Fraser,Robert,1947– II. Hammond,Mary, 1960– Z4.B648 2008 002.09—dc22 2008016739 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 For Mike and Catherine This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 Robert Fraser and Mary Hammond 1 Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History 13 Sydney J. Shep 2 Publishing under the Yoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavorov 38 Matthew Gibson 3 “After the Old; yet as agreeable … to the Newest”: British and American Almanacs in the Era of American Independence 55 Lily Santoro 4 From Germany to Brazil: The History of the Fashion Magazine A Estação,an International Enterprise 67 Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva 5 School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste 89 Robert Fraser 6 Origin and Growth of the White Fathers’ Press at Bukalasa, Uganda 107 Ivan Page 7 A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century 130 Patricia May B. Jurilla vii viii Contents 8 Greene, Waugh, and the Lure of Travel 147 Lynda Prescott 9 Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series – A Publisher’s Memoir 159 James Currey 10 Outside the Nation(al): ‘South African’ Print and Book Cultures, and Global ‘text-scapes’ 173 Andrew van der Vlies 11 Shakespeare’s Postcolonial Journey 186 Roshni Mooneeram Select Bibliography 199 Index 205 Figures Figure 4.1 Die Modenwelt, 1 October 1870, Berlin. Courtesy of Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz and Lipperheidische Kostümbibliothek, Berlin, 2007. Photo by Dietmar Katz. 69 Figure 5.1 John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral, from Nelsons West Indian Readers, Book V 90 Figure 5.2 ‘An Ocean Liner’ from Nelsons West Indian Readers, Book II 94 Figure 5.3 J. C. Dollman, Crusoe, from Nelsons West Indian Readers, Book II 95 Figure 5.4 ‘Kaieteur Fall’, from Nelsons West Indian Readers (Jamaica Edition), Book V 97 Figure 6.1 ‘Catechism for Beginners’, 1911, printed at Bukalasa 113 Figure 6.2 The composing room at Bukalasa, with Brother Adéodat supervising the work 115 Figure 6.3 The press room at Bukalasa, again showing Brother Adéodat and some of the staff 115 Figure 6.4 Workers in the bindery at Bukalasa 116 Figure 7.1 Front cover of Búhay na pinagdaanan ni Emilio na anác ni Artemio at ni Ángela sa cahariang Europa(The Life of Emilio, son of Artemio and Angela, in the kingdom of Europe), second printing, 1914 135 Figure 7.2 Front cover of Calugod-lugod na búhay na pinagdaanan nang mag-asaua ni Adan at ni Eva(The Delightful Life of the Couple Adam and Eve), second printing, 1924 136 ix
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