Bookishness

Jessica Pressman

Published by Columbia University Press 2020

Bookishness

Loving Books in a Digital Age

Jessica Pressman

In the series Literature Now

https://doi.org/10.7312/pres19512

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About this book

Jessica Pressman explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture.

Author information

Jessica Pressman is associate professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, where she cofounded the Digital Humanities Initiative. She is the author of Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media (2014); coauthor of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (2015); and coeditor of Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (2013) and Book Presence in a Digital Age (2018).

Reviews

Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland:
Jessica Pressman’s great strength lies in her wonderful touch for the material. Her expansive command of exemplars runs the gamut from the high literary to cultural kitsch. Bookishness offers that rare and enviable combination of fascinating source material and an easily transportable take-away—the title term itself, which is sure to become widely adopted and relied upon.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Aknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 How and now Bookishness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 Shelter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 Thing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4 Fake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5 Weapon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6 Memorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: March 24, 2021
ISBN: 9780231551199