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Ancient Letters and Old Paper: How Matthew Parker (1504–1575) Understood Medieval Books Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Madeline McMahon
Abstract: This article examines the efforts of Matthew Parker and his scholarly circle to understand the medieval books that he collected as archbishop of Canterbury. It argues that Parker made sense of his books by connecting them to what amounted to an emerging history of the book. That is, Parker began to piece together the formal features of different medieval books into a rough but increasingly
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The Goddæuses' Dürer-Inspired Trademark: The Meanings, Origins, and Strategic Uses of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Printer's Device Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Michael Durrant
Abstract: This article offers a close reading of a seventeenth-century trademark deployed by the Rotterdam-based printers Henry (1633-1684) and Johanna Goddæus (fl. 1660-1690). As part of this analysis, I show that that the central motif in the Goddæuses' trademark, which depicts the Gospel event known as the noli me tangere, is in an intertextual relationship with an earlier devotional woodcut by
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John and James Rivington, Booksellers: The Retail Trade in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Leah Orr
Abstract: This article analyzes evidence from a manuscript ledger belonging to the London bookselling firm of John and James Rivington during the early 1750s. The ledger shows that the Rivingtons, at the center of the London book trade, frequently swapped or acquired books from other booksellers for retail sale in their shop. The price valuations in the ledger also reveal that the books traded between
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Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sarah Bull
Abstract: This article reconsiders the role of compiling in the modern history of authorship. Nineteenth-century readers viewed compiling as the purest form of "book-making," a mechanistic, market-oriented model of authorship that stood in opposition to authorial genius. The article examines these authorial models' intertwined origins in emergent industrial capitalism, and argues that book-making retained
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Unmaidenly Labor: Literary Labor in the Modernist Market, Helen Wright's Collection of Autographed Books, and Edith Wharton Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 A. Elisabeth Reichel
Abstract: The Helen Wright Collection of Autographed Books at Vassar College testifies to a modernist market that was sustained in its capitalization of individual author signatures by a system of secondary literary labors. Straddling differently gendered spheres of this market, Wright competed with established book collectors while retaining a sense of "sentimental ownership" (Lori Merish) that set
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The Little Golden Books in the Shadow of the CIA, or the Americanization of Children's Publishing in Cold War France Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Cécile Boulaire
Abstract: In 1949, a new French publishing house, named Cocorico, launched a brand new collection called "Un petit livre d'or". In fact, it was simply a translation of the American "Little Golden Books" series. These cheap, cheerful and colourful picturebooks for the children of postwar Europe enjoyed immediate success. But the importation into Europe of the concept of "little golden books" had roots
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Wattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sarah Brouillette
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Wattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work Sarah Brouillette (bio) Wattpad is a reading and writing platform that is mainly free to use, which allows users to easily upload and interact with text, and is developing techniques to chart reading behavior and to deploy this data to shape ongoing content production
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Duly Noted: Subversive Paratexts in Contemporary African American Poetry Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Laura Vrana
Abstract: This article examines an ever-proliferating, little-discussed phenomenon: notes in contemporary African American poetry. Attending to the form and content of these threshold spaces elucidates how Black poets operate within but refuse incorporation into historically white institutions. Reading three examples—Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith, To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young, and Dangerous
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"Singular Plurality": Settler Colonial Transcendence and Canada's 2021 Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the Frankfurt Book Fair Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Jody Mason, Sarah Pelletier
Abstract: Building on recent scholarship on the role of the Frankfurt Book Fair in contemporary book culture, this paper looks at FBM2021, Canada's guest-of-honour campaign for the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair. FBM2021's brand, "Singular Plurality," depended on Indigenous authors and their writing to signify the post-reconciliation eclecticism that is at the heart of Canadian Heritage's current cultural
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Contributors Book History Pub Date : 2023-11-02
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Cécile Boulaire is an Associate Professor in Children's Literature at the University of Tours, and in 2015 she obtained her professorial thesis [Habilitation à diriger des recherches]. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Strenæ, dedicated to children's literature and the material culture of childhood. Her research focuses
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Fashions of Old and New Songs: French Popular Printed Songbooks around 1535 Book History Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Cécile de Morrée
Abstract: This article examines if and how French popular printed songbooks from around 1535 that do not contain music notation are connected to music books that do contain notes. It takes as a case-study the Parisian songbook known as 1535 after its year of publication. Based on thorough bibliographical analysis, this article contends that the only preserved copy of this popular songbook is a sixth
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"And now ready to be delivered to the subscribers": Print-by-Subscription Networks and the Connecticut Gazette, 1755–1763 Book History Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Rachel M. Hendrick
Abstract: Print-by-subscription schemes proliferated in eighteenth-century British North America, but how exactly did they work? This article argues that authors and publishers relied upon networks of ministers, merchants, and printers and postmasters, as well as newspaper advertisements, to sell to readers in small-town New England during the Seven Years’ War. While print by subscription networks
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Reading Across Colonies: Fiction Holdings and Circulating Libraries in the British Southern Hemisphere, 1820–1870 Book History Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Karen Wade, Porscha Fermanis
Abstract: This study analyzes the fiction holdings of thirty library catalogues from twenty-three discrete circulating libraries in colonial Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore from 1820 to 1870. It examines first, the frequency of book title listings; second, gender patterns and trends; and third, the prevalence of local and/or regionally-specific publications in the colonial libraries
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"Changed to suit the English market": American Novelist E. D. E. N. Southworth in George Stiff's London Penny Weeklies Book History Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Melissa J. Homestead, Marie Léger-St-Jean
Abstract: This essay examines the circulation of the works of American novelist E. D. E. N. Southworth in London penny weeklies owned by George Stiff from the mid-1850s through the mid-1860s, including his best-known periodical, the London Journal. While Stiff’s earliest circulation of Southworth’s fiction was not authorized, they soon reached an understanding, and Southworth moved to England, living
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Crafting a "Species of Literature": John Murray's Multidisciplinary, Polyvocal Handbooks for Travellers Book History Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Sarah Schaefer Walton
Abstract: The commercial and cultural success of the nineteenth-century travel guidebooks Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers to the Continent is an invitation to trace the series’ origins and closely consider their composition. This article relies on the John Murray Archive to make the case that Murray’s Handbooks were polyvocal, multidisciplinary texts. The myth this article scrutinizes, in other words
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Origins of the US Genre-Fiction System, 1890–1956 Book History Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Andrew Goldstone
Abstract: Though genre fiction is now ubiquitous, and though both book history and literary studies have devoted considerable attention to individual genres like science fiction and romance novels, the history of the system of popular fiction categories has been little studied. This essay traces the origins of the genre-fiction system in United States magazine and book publishing, bringing sociological
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Hiding in Paine Sight: Jonathan Shipley's Forgotten Bestsellers and the Print Culture of the American Revolution Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Jordan E. Taylor
Abstract: Historians widely acknowledge the significance of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the most popular pamphlet in revolutionary America, in securing American independence. Yet they have almost entirely forgotten the importance of the second-most popular pamphleteer of the era, Anglican Bishop Jonathan Shipley. This essay recovers Shipley's significance while also suggesting that his works paved
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Negotiating Intimacy in British Romantic Friendship Albums Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Renee Bryzik
Abstract: This article explores the integral role that the practice of friendship album-keeping played in British intellectual networks at the turn of the nineteenth century. The friendship album's draw among contemporaries, and deterrent to researchers, is that the album's intimacy is achieved through the practice's refusal to consider its legibility beyond its immediate circle. Instead, each album's
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Reforming the "Art Preservative": Nineteenth-Century British Printing Manuals and the Discourse of Design Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Jamie Horrocks
Abstract: Discussions of nineteenth-century letterpress design typically follow a narrative of loss and restoration: the explosion of typographic materials and machines made possible by industrialization led to a decline in the visual quality of letterpress production, which was reversed only at the end of the century by William Morris and the advent of modern graphic design. Many specimens of Victorian
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Print-Grammars: Technologizing the Indian Vernacular Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Akrish Adhikari
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Print-Grammars:Technologizing the Indian Vernacular Akrish Adhikari (bio) In 1839, for the benefit of the English, the chaplain of the Madras army published a grammar of the Malayalam vernacular.1 He observes in the preface of this book: Considering the length of time that the country has been known to and visited by Europeans, […] to
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Offprinting Bibliotherapy: Sadie P. Delaney's Interventions in Media Infrastructures Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 David Tate
Abstract: "Offprinting Bibliotherapy: Sadie P. Delaney's Interventions in Media Infrastructures" investigates how librarian and bibliotherapist Sadie Peterson Delaney's circulation of offprinted journal articles enclosed in personal correspondence intervened in mid-twentieth-century infrastructures of knowledge. Halfway between the private letter and the published journal article, enclosed offprints
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Following Orders: A History of Amharic Typing Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Matthew S. Lindia
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Following Orders:A History of Amharic Typing Matthew S. Lindia (bio) Upon the coronation of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, the United States was to unofficially offer a radio, a refrigerator, five hundred rose bushes, three films, and a typewriter along with the official gift of an autographed picture of President Herbert Hoover
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The Business of Black and Interracial Children's Literature Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Korey Garibaldi
Abstract: This essay investigates how racial progressivism intersected with the production of children's literature in the U.S. over the first seven decades of the twentieth century, by using a variety of archival materials preserved in Muriel Fuller's manuscript collection at Hunter College. Fuller, the first literary agent of the African American popular novelist Frank Yerby, was a typical yet very
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New Leaves: Riffling the History of Digital Pagination Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Martin Paul Eve
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: New Leaves:Riffling the History of Digital Pagination Martin Paul Eve (bio) Introduction: Against the Page Page space isn't a given, an a priori static entity. Johanna Drucker1 NLS files were described as early as 1962 as 'scrolls.' Thierry Bardini2 Physical metaphor and analogy saturate contemporary computing.3 We have a virtual "space"
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Computing Book Parts with EEBO-TCP Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02 James Misson, Devani Singh
Abstract: This article begins by considering the difference between two kinds of bibliographical study: quantitative bibliography, which treats books as data, and 'anatomical' bibliography, which considers the paratextual and modular components of a book. Because of their methodological differences, it is difficult to reconcile the two approaches, so anatomical bibliography is rarely practiced on a
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Contributors Book History Pub Date : 2022-12-02
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Akrish Adhikari is a Ph.D. candidate in French and Italian at Princeton University. He specializes in media studies, postcolonial thought, critical theory, and digital humanities. His other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Configurations, Symposium, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, and The Comparatist. Renee
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Galen's De Indolentia and The Fire of 192 CE: Through the Eyes of Book History Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Germaine Warkentin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Galen’s De Indolentia and The Fire of 192 CE: Through the Eyes of Book History1 Germaine Warkentin (bio) The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster. —Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art.”* Sometime in the spring of the year 192 CE,2 a fire–all too frequent in the jerry-built
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Paratextuality Between Materiality, Interpretation and Translation: The Case of Psalm Incipits in Jewish Late Antiquity Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 A.J. Berkovitz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Paratextuality Between Materiality, Interpretation and Translation: The Case of Psalm Incipits in Jewish Late Antiquity A.J. Berkovitz (bio) The field of Book History binds together the destiny of books and their readers. As a principle, it posits that the material reality of a text will have an impact upon the way in which readers engage
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Unmasking Publius: Authorial Attribution and the Making of The Federalist Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Drew Starling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Unmasking Publius: Authorial Attribution and the Making of The Federalist Drew Starling (bio) On 5 February 1788, as the states were debating the ratification of the American Constitution, George Washington wrote to his friend and ally in the pro-Constitution fight, Henry Knox, demanding, “who is the author or authors of Publius?”1 From
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The Bentley Schema: Inside a Newly Industrialized Firm Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Sarah Lubelski
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Bentley Schema: Inside a Newly Industrialized Firm Sarah Lubelski (bio) The history of the firm of Richard Bentley and Son appears be marked by cultural tradition and patriarchal continuity. After dissolving a short-lived partnership with Henry Colburn in 1832, Richard Bentley Sr. became the sole owner of the firm, renaming Colburn
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Literary Translation and the Expansion of the Ottoman Armenian Reading Public, 1853–1884 Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Jennifer Manoukian
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Literary Translation and the Expansion of the Ottoman Armenian Reading Public, 1853–1884 Jennifer Manoukian (bio) Introduction In 1902, an Ottoman Armenian writer stood before a reception in Paris organized in honor of the centennial of Victor Hugo’s birth. This young man, Arshag Chobanian, had come as part of a delegation to pay tribute
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Reorienting "Lost" Time: Reading Godey's Lady's Book in the American Civil War Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Charlotte Hand
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reorienting “Lost” Time: Reading Godey’s Lady’s Book in the American Civil War Charlotte Hand (bio) Since Frank Luther Mott disparaged Godey’s Lady’s Book, the most influential women’s magazine of the American antebellum period, for being “absolutely untouched by the great conflict” that was the American Civil War, scholars have often
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Henry Mayhew and the Participatory Reading Culture of Victorian Investigative Journalism Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Jenna M. Herdman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Henry Mayhew and the Participatory Reading Culture of Victorian Investigative Journalism Jenna M. Herdman (bio) In the winter of 1849–50, the Metropolitan Correspondent for the Morning Chronicle visited the Asylum for the Houseless Poor at Playhouse-Yard, London. One of the hundreds of destitute people finding refuge at the Asylum was
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Virginia Woolf, Penguin Paperbacks, and Mass Publishing in Mid-Century Britain Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Vike Martina Plock
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Virginia Woolf, Penguin Paperbacks, and Mass Publishing in Mid-Century Britain Vike Martina Plock (bio) “I am anxious to obtain the author’s signature to enclose with my copies of ORLANDO and A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. Could you possibly help me in my quest?”1 In July 1946, Allen Lane, director of Penguin Books, approached Leonard Woolf with
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The Consequences of Competition: Book Awards and Twenty-first Century Black Poetry Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Howard Rambsy II
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Consequences of Competition: Book Awards and Twenty-first Century Black Poetry Howard Rambsy II (bio) Just in case potential readers needed confirmation that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014) was an exceptional award-winning book, her publisher, Graywolf Press adorned printings of the publication with a list of its accolades. The back
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Contributors Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors A.J. Berkovitz is a scholar of Jewish Antiquity. His research explores Jewish texts, traditions and history from the formation of the Hebrew Bible until the rise of Islam. He received his Ph.D. in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity from Princeton University and a BA/MA in Jewish Studies/Bible from Yeshiva University. His
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Contributors Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors A.J. Berkovitz is a scholar of Jewish Antiquity. His research explores Jewish texts, traditions and history from the formation of the Hebrew Bible until the rise of Islam. He received his Ph.D. in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity from Princeton University and a BA/MA in Jewish Studies/Bible from Yeshiva University. His
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Virginia Woolf, Penguin Paperbacks, and Mass Publishing in Mid-Century Britain Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Vike Martina Plock
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Virginia Woolf, Penguin Paperbacks, and Mass Publishing in Mid-Century Britain Vike Martina Plock (bio) “I am anxious to obtain the author’s signature to enclose with my copies of ORLANDO and A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. Could you possibly help me in my quest?”1 In July 1946, Allen Lane, director of Penguin Books, approached Leonard Woolf with
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Paratextuality Between Materiality, Interpretation and Translation: The Case of Psalm Incipits in Jewish Late Antiquity Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 A.J. Berkovitz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Paratextuality Between Materiality, Interpretation and Translation: The Case of Psalm Incipits in Jewish Late Antiquity A.J. Berkovitz (bio) The field of Book History binds together the destiny of books and their readers. As a principle, it posits that the material reality of a text will have an impact upon the way in which readers engage
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Galen's De Indolentia and The Fire of 192 CE: Through the Eyes of Book History Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Germaine Warkentin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Galen’s De Indolentia and The Fire of 192 CE: Through the Eyes of Book History1 Germaine Warkentin (bio) The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster. —Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art.”* Sometime in the spring of the year 192 CE,2 a fire–all too frequent in the jerry-built
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Henry Mayhew and the Participatory Reading Culture of Victorian Investigative Journalism Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Jenna M. Herdman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Henry Mayhew and the Participatory Reading Culture of Victorian Investigative Journalism Jenna M. Herdman (bio) In the winter of 1849–50, the Metropolitan Correspondent for the Morning Chronicle visited the Asylum for the Houseless Poor at Playhouse-Yard, London. One of the hundreds of destitute people finding refuge at the Asylum was
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The Bentley Schema: Inside a Newly Industrialized Firm Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Sarah Lubelski
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Bentley Schema: Inside a Newly Industrialized Firm Sarah Lubelski (bio) The history of the firm of Richard Bentley and Son appears be marked by cultural tradition and patriarchal continuity. After dissolving a short-lived partnership with Henry Colburn in 1832, Richard Bentley Sr. became the sole owner of the firm, renaming Colburn
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Reorienting "Lost" Time: Reading Godey's Lady's Book in the American Civil War Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Charlotte Hand
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reorienting “Lost” Time: Reading Godey’s Lady’s Book in the American Civil War Charlotte Hand (bio) Since Frank Luther Mott disparaged Godey’s Lady’s Book, the most influential women’s magazine of the American antebellum period, for being “absolutely untouched by the great conflict” that was the American Civil War, scholars have often
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Unmasking Publius: Authorial Attribution and the Making of The Federalist Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Drew Starling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Unmasking Publius: Authorial Attribution and the Making of The Federalist Drew Starling (bio) On 5 February 1788, as the states were debating the ratification of the American Constitution, George Washington wrote to his friend and ally in the pro-Constitution fight, Henry Knox, demanding, “who is the author or authors of Publius?”1 From
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The Consequences of Competition: Book Awards and Twenty-first Century Black Poetry Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Howard Rambsy II
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Consequences of Competition: Book Awards and Twenty-first Century Black Poetry Howard Rambsy II (bio) Just in case potential readers needed confirmation that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014) was an exceptional award-winning book, her publisher, Graywolf Press adorned printings of the publication with a list of its accolades. The back
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Literary Translation and the Expansion of the Ottoman Armenian Reading Public, 1853–1884 Book History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Jennifer Manoukian
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Literary Translation and the Expansion of the Ottoman Armenian Reading Public, 1853–1884 Jennifer Manoukian (bio) Introduction In 1902, an Ottoman Armenian writer stood before a reception in Paris organized in honor of the centennial of Victor Hugo’s birth. This young man, Arshag Chobanian, had come as part of a delegation to pay tribute
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Books in Books: The Idea of the Book in the Fifteenth-Century English Visual Imagination Book History Pub Date : 2021-11-23 J. R Mattison
Abstract: This article examines images of books in English manuscripts, c. 1360–1500. Through an analysis of one hundred manuscripts with such images, I demonstrate that medieval artists developed a shared idea of the book through the depiction of specific codicological features: wordless or illegible pages in board bindings with clasps. The coherent representation of these aspects of manuscripts emphasizes
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Ballard, Lully, and the Books that Helped Change How We Think about Music Book History Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Ronald Broude
Abstract: In 1678, Parisian music printer Christophe Ballard departed from traditional practice by publishing Jean-Baptiste Lully’s tragédies en musique in full score. Score presents all vocal and/or instrumental parts in a single visual space, enabling users to form mental images of works, something impossible with the layout previously favored for ensemble music, part books, which distributed parts
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Embedded Authorship: Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nineteenth-Century "Transatlantic Bibliopoly" Book History Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Tim Sommer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Embedded Authorship: Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nineteenth-Century “Transatlantic Bibliopoly” Tim Sommer (bio) I. Transatlantic Circulation between the “Two Englands” In 1870, Thomas Carlyle donated a large part of his private library to Harvard University in an effort to demonstrate his “gratitude to New England” for its
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"Injured Mutilated or Defaced": How to Read a Bible in a Nineteenth-Century English Prison Book History Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Lucy Sixsmith
Abstract: This article explores the ways bibles are used, marked, annotated, and damaged, and what the evidence of marked bibles might contribute to book history in the nineteenth century. It offers a case study from nineteenth-century English prisons, comparing Elizabeth Fry’s annotated bible with a bible probably used by prisoners in Newgate, and with a bible transformed into playing cards in a Norfolk
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"Out of the business once established could grow various enterprises": W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ed. L. Simon & Co. Printers Book History Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Elizabeth McHenry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Out of the business once established could grow various enterprises”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ed. L. Simon & Co. Printers Elizabeth McHenry (bio) Sometime in the summer or early fall of 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois quietly purchased a printing business at 163 Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.1 He did not live or work in Memphis, nor did
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Reading in the Flesh: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy and the Haptic Response Book History Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Gillian Silverman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reading in the Flesh: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy and the Haptic Response Gillian Silverman (bio) How do books impact our bodies and how do our bodies respond to books? Three decades after purchasing The Norton Anthology of English Literature, I still cannot look at that volume without the memory of physical pain: the eye strain necessitated
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Cut, Copyright, Paste: Proliferating Print Networks in Susan Howe's "Melville's Marginalia" Book History Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Anna Muenchrath
Abstract: Susan Howe’s poetry sequence Melville’s Marginalia materializes the print cultural networks of authors Herman Melville and James Clarence Mangan by unveiling the passage and material trace of their works through the hands of editors, publishers, libraries, and readers. The form of these networks is duplicated in the method of Howe’s poetic practice, which is often Bartleby-esque, interchanging
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"All the World Writes Short Hand": The Phenomenon of Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England Book History Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Kelly Minot McCay
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "All the World Writes Short Hand":The Phenomenon of Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England Kelly Minot McCay (bio) Introduction Overwise [M]y Ancestor was the first Inventor of Short Hand, and you see of what use it is to the world; but at first it was extremely laugh'd at, as no doubt my Project will be.… Well in short, as all the World
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Reading Themselves Sick: Consumption and Women's Reading in the Early Republic, 1780–1860 Book History Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Carrie N. Knight
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reading Themselves Sick:Consumption and Women's Reading in the Early Republic, 1780–1860 Carrie N. Knight (bio) Sickness is the mildew of life. It mars the fairest hours of enjoyment. In the morning the spirits are refreshed—the heart is rife with ambition. Herculean obstacles cower beneath your touch. But a little exertion & fatigue spirits
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Printing as Poison, Printing as Cure: Work and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Printing Office and Asylum Book History Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Mila Daskalova
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Printing as Poison, Printing as Cure:Work and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Printing Office and Asylum Mila Daskalova (bio) In the nineteenth century, printing transformed from a handicraft into what Patrick Duffy describes as "a capital-intensive industry catering for the needs of the developing industrialized society."1 This shift
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Subscribing to Empire: The Global Expansion of American Subscription Publishing Book History Pub Date : 2021-04-21 John J. Garcia
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Subscribing to Empire:The Global Expansion of American Subscription Publishing John J. Garcia (bio) In 1884, a New Jersey man named Henry Dwight Stiles (1823–89) published a comparison between bees and people that drew upon his travels in Southeast Asia: Last January I saw in Singapore, upon a tree in the hotel yard, a large colony of
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Railway Bookselling and the Politics of Print in India: The Case of A.H. Wheeler Book History Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Ritika Prasad
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Railway Bookselling and the Politics of Print in India:The Case of A.H. Wheeler Ritika Prasad (bio) It was 2004. The railway minister of a newly elected government was presenting the railway budget in parliament. Outlining his agenda for enhancing "transparency," and "competitiveness," Lalu Prasad Yadav took umbrage at the ubiquitous presence
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"You Shall Look at This or at Nothing": Gaylord Schanilec and the Value of the Fine Press Book Book History Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Alexa Hazel
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "You Shall Look at This or at Nothing":Gaylord Schanilec and the Value of the Fine Press Book Alexa Hazel (bio) American writer, engraver, and printer Gaylord Schanilec's (1955–) Lac des pleurs1 arrives at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room in a nondescript box. The box is placed on a spacious map table in a wood-paneled and carpeted
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MercadoLibre and the Democratization of Books: A Critical Reading of New Material Affordances and Digital Book History Book History Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Nora C. Benedict
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: MercadoLibre and the Democratization of Books:A Critical Reading of New Material Affordances and Digital Book History Nora C. Benedict (bio) At the heart of most research related to book history is the archive, or the physical places that store historical and cultural records—whether manuscripts, books, photographs, or other forms of material