Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: ‘Search All About It!’
Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: ‘Search All About It!’
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数字时代的历史报纸：“搜索一切！”
作者：
A. Ackerley
在18世纪的头几十年之后，印刷的连载从文本中消失，并且对围绕1800年之前的信件集的出版活动的兴趣逐渐减弱。与书信体小说不同的是，这两种手稿和印刷品的互动都进入了一个扩张时期，这可能提供了一个机会，至少可以让我们在世纪初继续使用桥接机制。在文本中，这里和那里有一些印刷史上的小失误。书中偶尔会出现一个比喻，意在与理论上的桥接概念形成对比，提请人们注意伦敦桥是印刷品/书籍贸易的中心。尽管这可能是恰当的，尽管在整个世纪，桥上的出版商发行了大量的圣经和年鉴，但这个位置总是在印刷业的主要业务领域之外。在文本中有一些这类的错误判断，但它们并没有中断论证的流动。这本书有真实的兴趣，我能够以各种方式重新校准我认为我知道的互动联系之间的手稿和印刷在这一时期。这两种形式之间持续共生的论点当然是需要提出的。这是一个承认的流动性的概念，使本书的结构，金教授认为有必要提供一个单独的“书目散文”，以更密切地确定她的工作的位置，与其他研究触及她的主要论点。这是一个复杂的领域，虽然我觉得她已经在某种程度上澄清了问题，但也有一些悬而未决的因素。她的书名《写给世界》本身就很神秘。在整个文本中，她引用了社区对这个术语的使用，这些社区自我引用他们的信件作为“世界”。这似乎是一个松散的结尾，一个混淆而不是澄清的文学概念。这是一项雄心勃勃的工作，也是对正在进行的辩论的贡献。它显然值得在一系列学科中进行研究，其主题应成为进一步分析的重点。这本书本身是非常好的制作和提供在一个相对温和的价格在什么可能被松散地描述为世界的学术出版。
printed serials disappear from the text after the first decades of the eighteenth century and there is a fading interest in the publishing activity around collections of letters before 1800. Both these lines of interactive manuscript and print were, unlike the epistolary novels, entering a period of expansion and this could have provided an opportunity for at least an aside on the continued use of the bridging mechanism into the early nineteenth century. Here and there in the text there are a few minor lapses in print history. A trope appearing occasionally across the book, intended as a counter-point to the theoretical bridging concept, draws attention to London Bridge as a centre of the trade in print/books. Apposite as this might have been and although there was a huge distribution of chapbooks and almanacs by publishers on the bridge through the seventeenth century, the location was always peripheral to the main business areas of print. There are a few misjudgements of this kind in the text but they do not interrupt the flow of the argument. This book has real interest and I was able in a variety of ways to recalibrate what I thought I knew about the interactive links betweenmanuscript and print in this period. The argument for a continuing symbiosis between the two forms is one that certainly needs to be made. It is an acknowledgement of the fluidity of the concepts that make up the structure of this book that Professor King has felt it necessary to provide a separate ‘Bibliographical Essay’ to define more closely the position of her work in relation to other studies touching on her main argument. It is a complex area andwhile I feel that she has gone someway to clarifying the issues there are also some unresolved elements. Her title ‘Writing to the World’ is itself enigmatic. Across the text she cites the use of this terminology by communities who self-referenced their correspondence as addressed to ‘the world’. It seems a loose end, a literary concept that confuses rather than clarifies. This is an ambitious work and is also a contribution to an ongoing debate. It clearly deserves to be studied across a range of disciplines and its themes should become a focus for further analysis. The book itself is very well produced and offered at a relatively moderate price in what might be loosely described as the world of academic publishing.