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Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees of the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Book Culture from Below, that took place in Helsinki in 2010. This book provides, for the first time in English, an overview of an important epoch in Finnish book and reading history. Besides depicting book culture at the periphery of Europe, it contributes to our understanding of the power of the urbanized European literary world of the 1700s. The new reading cultur...
Breitinger and their followers, Gottsched's reputation partially eroded. Only since the middle of this century has there been renewed recognition of Gottsched's contributions and his highly significant position in the history of German literature. Here is the first monograph to appear on Gottsched in almost a hundred years.