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DESCRIPTION:Evelina: a life-story of a book\, told by its paratext\n\nEveli
 na\, the first novel by Frances Burney\, is enjoying a lasting popularity 
 among reading public. Since its appearance in the late 18th century\, it h
 as been republished in close to 170 physical editions and reprints in seve
 ral European languages and has recently made its transition into the realm
  of e-books.\n\nRepublication of Evelina often involved a complete redesig
 n of the form of the book and remodeling of its entire paratextual apparat
 us. During two and a half centuries of its existence\, and without any sig
 nificant alterations to its text\, Evelina\, a popular novel of manners\, 
 metamorphosed into a Regency-time “rambling” text\, a sentimental novel fo
 r lecteurs délicats\, a novel for circulating libraries\, a safe classic\,
  fit to be a Christmas gift book\, a yellow-back\, a book with a certain a
 esthetic cachet\, a ‘historical handbook\,’ to become an integral part of 
 an established literary canon. The particularities of publication history 
 of Evelina allow to regard these metamorphoses as resulting from conscious
  choices made by its publishers\, while excluding the influence of both th
 e book’s text and the book’s author on the development of its paratextual 
 representation. Evelina’s transformations have not been limited to books a
 s physical objects but continue in modern times in an uncertain and boundl
 ess domain of digital-born\, print-on-demand\, and Kindle editions.\n\nThi
 s talk will explore the many paratextual faces of Evelina and investigate 
 how the form of the book as an object was evolving in response to reading 
 environments\, with its paratext recombined\, changed\, or altered altoget
 her by the publishers\, to guide the book’s perception by the public and u
 ltimately\, to influence the response to (and\, consequently\, the sales o
 f) its new editions. Also\, it will demonstrate possibilities for the use 
 of digital humanities methods and tools in book history\, such as data vis
 ualisation and network analysis tools that could be used to explore co-occ
 urrences of paratextual characteristics\, or timeline tools that could hel
 p to demonstrate and detect correlations and trends in the evolution of bo
 oks’ paratextual apparatus in historical context.\n
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LOCATION:Peel 3661\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1X1\, 3661 rue Peel
SUMMARY:SIS Seminar Series - Svetlana Kochkina
URL:/sis/channels/event/sis-seminar-series-svetlana-ko
 chkina-304044
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