Gillian Russell

Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustrated with examples from across the period, Gillian Russell examines the emergence of the cultural category of printed ephemera, its relationship with forms of sociability, the history of the book, and ideas of what constituted the boundaries of literature and literary value. Russell explores the role of contemporary collectors such as Sarah Sophia Banks in preserving such material, arguing for 'ephemerology' as a distinctive strand of popular antiquarianism. Multi-disciplinary in scope, The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century reveals new perspectives on the history of theatre, the fiction of Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, and on the history of bibliography, as well as highlighting the continuing relevance of the concept of ephemerality to how we connect through social media today.

Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting

The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century

Clara Tuite

This 2002 volume explores the often overlooked social networks of Romantic figures.

Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840

Romantic Sociability

Neil Ramsey

This volume argues for the enduring significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. It is premised on the assumption that the study of war in this period cannot be contained by conventional disciplinary rubrics, parameters and periodizations. Offering, therefore, an interdisciplinary approach, it combines consideration of the many forms of war's textuality with an attention to its affects, materialities and socialities. The collection problematises assumptions about the ontology of war by focussing on its multiple, divergent and productive traces.

Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

"The Sydney playbill offers tantalising glimpses of the social and cultural life of the early colony. What was the significance of the plays performed? Who were the players and their audiences? What kind of theatre did they perform in? The Playbill and Its People answers these questions and examines the fascinating history of Georgian theatre and performance in Australia"--Back cover.

Australia's Earliest Printed Document

The Playbill and Its People

Delia Graff Fara

Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language.? The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, charting its key ideas and movements, and addressing?contemporary research and enduring questions in the philosophy of language. Unique to this Companion is clear coverage of research from the related disciplines of formal logic and linguistics, and discussion of the applications in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and philosophy of mind.? Organized thematically, the Companion is divided into seven sections: Core Topics; Foundations of Semantics; Parts of Speech; Methodology; Logic for Philosophers of Language; Philosophy of Language for the Rest of Philosophy; and Historical Perspectives. Comprised of 70 never-before-published essays from leading scholars--including Sally Haslanger, Jeffrey King, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Rae Langton, Kit Fine, John MacFarlane, Jeff Pelletier, Scott Soames, Jason Stanley, Stephen Stich and Zoltan Gendler Szabo--the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language promises to be the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for students and scholars alike.

Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language

This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces.

This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.

Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting

The Ephemeral Eighteenth-Century

A highly illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of sociability in the eighteenth century.

Gillian Russell

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