《书籍与文明》内容简介

　　一部英国“知识社会”进化小史

　　跨越百年重温维多利亚风尚

　　感知书籍与文明的互塑共生

　　《牛津英语词典》贡献最大者竟是一位精神病患者？

　　维多利亚“家庭天使”如何摆脱男权社会的身份桎梏？

　　英国三次议会改革与宪政史的学术出版有何历史关系？

　　以旅行著称的“维多利亚风尚”如何带动大众旅游出版？

　　独特视角看英国维多利亚时代的

　　大众如何选择读物带动出版发展

　　作家如何生产知识引导社会阅读

　　学者如何构建学科创立学派理论

　　商人如何出版书籍传播思想文明

　　自1837年始的维多利亚时代，是英国有史以来国家实力最为鼎盛、社会最为稳定的时代，历史学家将维多利亚时代称为英国历史上的“黄金时代”。《书籍与文明：英国维多利亚时代的知识生产与人文景观》是一部英国维多利亚时代“知识社会”进化小史，将带领读者跨越百年重温维多利亚风尚，感知书籍与文明的互塑共生。

　　本书回顾了维多利时代的“知识生产”光景：构建专业化的知识学科、为国民大众出版知识与探寻知识生产的价值隐喻，详细探讨的历史个案——威廉·斯塔布斯与《英国宪政史》、约翰·默里与大众旅游指南书、钱伯斯兄弟与《钱伯斯百科全书》、“疯子”迈纳医生与《牛津英语词典》、“家庭天使”与女性阅读，反映了该时代人文知识生产的不同侧影，其产生的巨大影响印证了英国中产阶级及其文化对“知识”的重新塑造，映照出19世纪英国这一“知识社会”的理念光谱，并表现出英国“知识制造工业”现代化流变的不同样态。全书围绕英国维多利亚时代的大众阅读、书籍出版、学科建立、学派发展等重要事件而展开，梳理了大众、作家、学者和出版商之间的互动共存关系，展现了当时英国崇尚科学与文明进步的社会氛围。

　　作者简介

　　刘松矗，男，四川成都人，四川大学历史学博士，现为成都理工大学外国语学院讲师，主要研究19世纪英美地区书籍史。2018—2019年赴英国剑桥大学历史系访问交流。曾参与国家社会科学基金重大项目“十九世纪美国工业化转型中的农村、农业和农民问题研究”、国家社会科学基金资助项目“美国工业化转型时期农民状况研究(1870—1900）”等课题，获四川大学优秀博士学位论文奖，参与并获社会科学基金项目结项优秀成果奖。

　　武玉红，女，山东临沂人，四川大学历史学博士，现为成都信息工程大学马克思主义学院讲师，主要研究西方史学史与妇女史。曾参与国家社会科学基金资助项目“美国工业化转型时期农民状况研究(1870—1900）”等课题，参与并获社会科学基金项目结项优秀成果奖。

　　袁曼书，女，四川乐山人，四川省社会科学院文学硕士，现为四川读者报社《育儿周刊》编辑，主要研究女性文学与当代文艺思潮。曾参与国家社会科学基金应急管理体系建设研究专项项目“围绕成功应对重大突发事件讲好中国故事研究”和2020年全国社会科学青年论坛并获奖。

　　

A brief introduction to Books and Civilization

A brief history of the evolution of the British "knowledge society"

Relive Victorian style across 100 years

Perceive the mutual symbiosis of books and civilization

The biggest contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary was a psychopath?

How did Victoria's "family Angel" get rid of the shackles of identity in the patriarchal society?

What is the historical relationship between the three parliamentary reforms in England and the academic publication of constitutional history?

How does the "Victorian Fashion" known for travel drive mass travel publishing?

A unique look at Victorian England

How does the public choose books to promote the development of publishing

How can writers produce knowledge to guide society to read

How do scholars construct the theory of discipline founding School

How do businessmen publish books and spread ideas

The Victorian era, which began in 1837, was the most prosperous and socially stable era in British history. Historians call the Victorian era the "Golden Age" in British history. Books and Civilization: Knowledge Production and the Human Landscape in Victorian England is a brief history of the evolution of the "knowledge society" in Victorian England, which will lead readers to review Victorian fashion and perceive the mutual symbiosis between books and civilization.

This book looks back on the "knowledge production" landscape of the Victorian era: Building specialized intellectual disciplines, publishing knowledge for the public and exploring the value metaphors of knowledge production, exploring historical cases in detail - William Stubbs and the British Constitutional History, John Murray and the Popular travel guidebook, the Chambers brothers and the Chambers Encyclopedia, "Mad" Dr. Minor and the Oxford English Dictionary, "The Angel of the Family" and Women's reading, It reflects the different profiles of humanistic knowledge production in this era, and its huge impact confirms the reconstruction of "knowledge" by the British middle class and its culture, reflects the concept spectrum of the "knowledge society" in Britain in the 19th century, and shows the modernization and evolution of the "knowledge manufacturing industry" in Britain. The book focuses on the important events of public reading, book publishing, discipline establishment and school development in Victorian England, and sorts out the interaction and coexistence between the public, writers, scholars and publishers, showing the social atmosphere of science and civilization progress in England at that time.

About the author

Liu Songchu, male, born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Ph. D. in history from Sichuan University, is now a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages of Chengdu University of Technology, focusing on the history of books in Britain and America in the 19th century. 2018-2019 Visit to the Department of History, University of Cambridge, UK. He participated in the major project of the National Social Science Foundation "Research on Rural areas, agriculture and Farmers during the Industrialization Transformation of the United States in the 19th Century" and the project funded by the National Social Science Foundation "Research on Farmers during the Industrialization Transformation of the United States (1870-1900)" and won the outstanding doctoral dissertation award of Sichuan University. Participated in and won the outstanding achievement award of the Social Science Fund project.

Wu Yuhong, female, born in Linyi, Shandong Province, Ph. D. in history from Sichuan University. Now she is a lecturer at the School of Marxism of Chengdu University of Information Technology. She mainly studies the history of Western history and women's history. He participated in the project funded by the National Social Science Foundation, "Research on the situation of Farmers in the Period of Industrialization Transformation in the United States (1870-1900)" and other topics, and participated in and won the outstanding achievement award of the Social Science Foundation project.

Yuan Manshu, female, born in Leshan, Sichuan Province, Master of Arts, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, is now the editor of Sichuan Readers' newspaper "Parenting Weekly", mainly studying female literature and contemporary literary trends. He participated in the National Social Science Fund Emergency management system construction research project "Research on Telling China's Story around Successful Response to Major Emergencies" and the 2020 National Social Science Youth Forum and won awards.