BROLLIOLOGY: A HISTORY OF THE UMBRELLA IN LIFE AND LITERATURE
Book ID/图书代码： 08885017C00003
English Summary/英文概要： A fun, illustrated history of the umbrella’s surprising place in life and literature
Humans have been making, using, perfecting, and decorating umbrellas for millennia--holding them over the heads of rulers, signalling class distinctions, and exploring their full imaginative potential in folk tales and novels.
In the spirit of the best literary gift books, Brolliology is a beautifully designed and illustrated tour through literature and history. It surprises us with the crucial role that the oft-overlooked umbrella has played over centuries--and not just in keeping us dry. Marion Rankine elevates umbrellas to their rightful place as an object worthy of philosophical inquiry.
As Rankine points out, many others have tried. Derrida sought to find the meaning (or lack thereof) behind an umbrella mentioned in Nietzsche’s notes, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote essays on the handy object, and Dickens used umbrellas as a narrative device for just about everything. She tackles the gender, class, and social connotations of carrying an umbrella and helps us realize our deep connection to this most forgettable everyday object--which we only think of when we don’t have one.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个有趣的，有插图的关于雨伞在生活和文学中令人惊讶的地方的历史。
几千年来，人类一直在制造、使用、完善和装饰雨伞——例如把它们放在统治者的头上，标志着阶级的区别，并在民间故事和小说中探索它们的全部想象潜力。
在最好的文学礼品书籍的精神中，布罗利学是一个经过文学和历史的精心设计和插图的旅行。这让我们感到惊讶，因为这个经常被忽视的雨伞在几个世纪以来一直扮演着重要的角色——而不仅仅是让我们保持干燥。马里恩•兰金把雨伞提升到应有的地位，作为一个值得进行哲学探索的对象。
正如兰金指出的那样，许多人都尝试过。德里达试图找到在尼采笔记中提到的雨伞背后的意义（或缺乏），罗伯特•路易斯•史蒂文森写了一篇关于便利对象的文章，而狄更斯则把雨伞作为一种叙事工具。她处理了带伞的性别、阶级和社会内涵，帮助我们认识到我们与这个最容易被遗忘的日常物品的深层联系——我们只是在我们没带伞的时候想到它。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：“愉快的……这本书中也充满了插图和许多引人入胜的事实。”——页面
“马里恩•兰金的雨伞文化之旅表明，这个看似简单的配饰受到了尊敬、迷信和迷恋的影响。她是一位深思熟虑的花卉学家，她收集了各种各样的文学作品。”——《卫报》(英国)
“这本书是一个令人愉快的提醒，提醒我们，一把雨伞从来都不是一个缈小的物件。”——悉尼先驱晨报
“如果你在文化史上看不到雨伞的意义，那么朋友，你的想法就不够宏大了。”——布罗利学拥有这样的魅力 !”——VOX杂志
"Delightful...The book is also filled with illustrations and plenty of fascinating facts." --BOOK PAGE
"Marion Rankine’s tour through umbrella culture suggests how widely this apparently simple accessory has been regarded with reverence, superstition and fascination... she is a thoughtful anthologist of the diverse literary examples she collects." --THE GUARDIAN (UK)
"This book is an enjoyable reminder that a brolly is never just a brolly." --SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"If you don’t see the point in a cultural history of umbrellas, then friend, you are not thinking big enough. Brolliology has it all!" -VOX
About the Author/作者介绍： 马里恩•兰金是一位驻伦敦的作家和书商。她的作品曾出现在泰晤士报文学增刊、卫报、越野，以及其他书籍中。
Marion Rankine is a London-based writer and bookseller. Her work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, Overland, and For Books’ Sake, among others.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：SOLD
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：We’ve had Spanish and Turkish interest in the title as well, though nothing is finalized.
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