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Abstract
Despite increased recognition of the importance of the material nature of the book to our understanding of the creation of meanings, there has been relatively little focus on the travel literature of the eighteenth century. The market was enormous and a significant part of it comprised reissued and reprinted works. This article looks at the way books that returned to the market were given new contexts and created new meanings without changing the language of the main body of the text. By careful consideration of paratextual features such as title-pages, dedicatory epistles, marginalia and running titles and by considering such issues as the gathering of texts into collections, this article demonstrates the financial, political and ideological motives behind the reissue and reprinting of books. It shows how, through them, texts were 'reformed' in many different ways and suggests that reissues and reprints created, in effect, new books.
Résumé
Malgré une reconnaissance croissante du rôle de la matérialité du livre dans notre compréhension de ses divers sens et significations, la littérature de voyage du xviiie siècle reste assez peu étudiée sous cet angle. Le marché était alors pourtant énorme et constitué en grande partie d’oeuvres rééditées et réimprimées. Cet article se penche sur la manière dont les livres remis en circulation dans de nouveaux contextes revêtaient de nouveaux sens sans toutefois qu’en change le corps du texte. S’intéressant aux caractéristiques paratextuelles, pages-titres, épîtres liminaires, notes marginales et titres courants, et tenant compte de questions telles que l’élaboration de collections, cet article met en évidence les motivations financières, politiques et idéologiques derrière ces rééditions et réimpressions. Il montre comment les textes ont ainsi été « réformés » de diverses manières, au point de donner, en fait, de nouveaux livres.
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