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Book HistoryGeneral Description BOOK HISTORY is a scholarly journal devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the creation, dissemination, reception, and use of script, print, and mediacy. The journal will publish research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, publishing, media, the book arts, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response. The journal is open to all disciplines and methodologies, and it will consider articles dealing with any literary culture and any historical period. In December 1999, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals selected Book History as "Best New Journal" of the year, with the CELJ awards committee praising its "impressive range" and "sustained engagement with the subject," and predicting "real staying power on the academic landscape." In the years since, the journal has fulfilled this early promise and become a well-established and influential leader in its field. Book History is coedited by Ezra Greenspan (Southern Methodist University) and Jonathan Rose (Drew University). It is sponsored by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) and published by Penn State University Press as a hardcover annual. Tables of contents can be browsed here:
. Guidelines for Submission Contributions will be accepted on a year-round basis, with a submission deadline of August 31 for inclusion in the following year's volume. Authors should send to the appropriate editor one copy of their work -- either in hard copy or in electronic form as a Microsoft Word file, or both -- which should be typed double spaced (including notes and citations) and documented in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style. The manuscript may be submitted as an email attachment, after advance notice to the editor. The title page should include the author's name, telephone number, postal address, and E-mail address. Contributors are welcome to submit illustrations and graphs with their texts. Due to the journal's book-length format, essays of unusual length are welcome. Submissions acceptable to the editors will be double reviewed by outside experts in the field. The editors of BOOK HISTORY award an annual prize for the outstanding graduate student essay submitted to our journal. The competition is open to anyone pursuing a course of graduate studies at the time of submission. The deadline for submission for each editorial year is 31 August. The author of the winning essay will receive a prize of $400, and the essay will be published in the journal. Articles dealing with any part of the American hemisphere, Judaica, or the Middle East should be submitted to Professor Ezra Greenspan, Department of English, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0435, USA, egreensp AT smu.edu . All other articles should be submitted to Professor Jonathan Rose, Department of History, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940, USA, jerose AT drew.edu (replace "AT" with "@"). . Subscriptions Membership in SHARP includes a subscription to Book History and all other SHARP publications. Annual SHARP membership costs $55 in North America, $60 elsewhere.Institutions may order subscriptions to Book History through Johns Hopkins University Press. Contact jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu or phone 1-800-548-1784, or 410-516-6987. . Table of Contents - Volume 10 (2007)Laura Cruz, The Secrets of Success: Microinventions and Bookselling in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands Jeffrey Glover, Thomas Lechford’s Plain Dealing: Censorship and Cosmopolitan Print Culture in the English Atlantic Richard Yeo, Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment Keri A. Berg, Contesting the Page: The Author and the Illustrator in France, 1830-1848 Matt Miller Composing the First Leaves of Grass: How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks Solveig C. Robinson, “Sir, It is an Outrage”: George Bentley, Robert Black, and the Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain Shafquat Towheed, Geneva v. St. Petersburg: Two Concepts of Literary Property and the Material Lives of Books in Under Western Eyes Erin A. Smith, “‘What Would Jesus Do?”: The Social Gospel and the Literary Marketplace Matthew C. Fishburn, Books are Weapons: Wartime Responses to the Nazi Bookfires of 1933 Cynthia Brokaw, Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I Christopher A. Reed Modern Chinese Print and Publishing Culture: The State of the Discipline II
Table of Contents - Volume 9 (2006)Sarah Covington, Paratextual Strategies in Thieleman van Braght’s Martyrs?MirrorEmma Jay, Queen Caroline’s Library and its European Contexts Jeff Loveland, Unifying Knowledge and Dividing Disciplines: The Development of Treatises in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Melissa Free, Un-Erasing Crusoe: Farther Adventures in the Nineteenth Century Andie Tucher , Reporting for Duty: The Bohemian Brigade, the Civil War, and the Social Construction of the Reporter Ellen Gruber Garvey, Anonymity, Authorship, and Recirculation: A Civil War Episode Bernadette A. Lear, Book History in Scarlet Letters: The Beginning and Growth of a College Yearbook during the Gilded Age Emily Oswald, Imagining Race: Illustrating the Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Ronald Jenn, From American Frontier to European Borders: Publishing French Translations of Mark Twain’s Novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1884-1963) Michelle Denise Smith, Soup Cans and Love Slaves: National Politics and Cultural Authority in the Editing and Authorship of Canadian Pulp Magazines David S. Miall, Empirical Approaches to Studying Literary Readers: The State of the Discipline Table of Contents - Volume 8 (2005)Kay Amert Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert EstiennePaul Patterson Reforming Chaucer: Margins and Religion in an Apocryphal Canterbury Tale Roger Chartier, translated by Maurice Elton Crossing Borders in Early Modern Europe: Sociology of Texts and Literature Richard Gassan The First American Tourist Guidebooks: Authorship and the Print Culture of the 1820s Jonathan R. Topham John Limbird, Thomas Byerley, and the Production of Cheap Periodicals in the 1820s Joanne E. Passet Freethought, Children’s Literature and the Construction of Religious Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America Patricia May B. Jurilla Florante at Laura and the History of the Filipino Book Valerie Holman Carefully Concealed Connections: The Ministry of Information and British Publishing, 1939-1946 Caroline Davis The Politics of Postcolonial Publishing: Oxford University Press's Three Crowns Series 1962-76 Joseph Ripp Middle America Meets Middle-Earth: American Discussion and Readership of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, 1965-1969 Christine Haynes Reassessing “Genius?in Studies of Authorship: The State of the Discipline Table of Contents - Volume 7 (2004)John A. Buchtel, Book Dedications and the Death of a Patron: The Memorial Engraving in Chapman’s HomerShlomo Berger, An Invitation to Buy and Read: Paratexts of Yiddish Books in Amsterdam 1650-1800 Neil Safier, "…To Collect and Abridge…Without Changing Anything Essential": Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi Thomas S. Kidd, Recovering The French Convert: Views of the French and the Uses of Anti-Catholicism in Early America Cree LeFavour, “Jane Eyre Fever? Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of Charlotte Bront?in Antebellum America Barbara Hochman, Uncle Tom in the National Era: An Essay in Generic Norms and the Contexts of Reading Iris Parush; translated by Saadya Sternberg , Another Look at “The Life of ‘Dead?Hebrew? Intentional Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society and Its Effects on Modern Hebrew Literature and Its Readership Lisa Lindell, Bringing Books to a “Book-Hungry Land? Print Culture on the Dakota Plains Willa Z. Silverman, “Books Worthy of Our Era??Octave Uzanne, Technology, and the Luxury Book in fin de siècle France Peter D. McDonald, The Writer, the Critic, and the Censor: J. M. Coetzee and the Question of Literature Leah Price, Reading: The State of the Discipline Contributors Table of Contents - Volume Six (2003)Edward Jacobs, Eighteenth-Century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book HistoryAnindita Ghosh, An Uncertain "Coming of the Book": Early Print Cultures in Colonial India Lisa Spiro, Reading with a Tender Rapture: Reveries of a Batchelor and the Rhetoric of Detached Intimacy David Finkelstein, "Jack's as Good as His Master": Scots and Print Culture in New Zealand, 1860-1900 Graham Law and Norimasa Morita, Japan and the Internationalization of the Serial Fiction Market Paul Eggert, Robbery Under Arms: The Colonial Market, Imperial Publishers, and the Demise of the Three-Decker Novel Jason Camlot, Early Talking Books: Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies, 1880-1920 Andrew Nash, A Publisher's Reader on the Verge of Modernity: The Case of Frank Swinnerton David Shneer, Who Owns the Means of Cultural Production?: The Soviet Yiddish Publishing Industry of the 1920s Ross Alloway, Selling the Great Tradition: Resistance and Conformity in the Publishing Practices of F. R. Leavis Rebecca Rego, The Neo-Classics: (Re)Publishing the "Great Books" in the United States in the 1990s THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE Hortensia Calvo,The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America Table of Contents - Volume 5 (2002)Matt Cohen, "Morton's Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England" M. O. Grenby, "Adults Only? Children and Children's Books in British Circulating Libraries 1748-1848" Jyrki Hakapää, "Internationalizing Book Distribution in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Origins of Finnish Bookselling" Marija Dalbello, "Franz Josef's Time Machine: Images of Modernity in the Era of Mechanical Photoreproduction" Ingrid Satelmajer, "Dickinson as Child's Fare: The Author Served up in St. Nicholas" Christine Pawley, "Seeking 'Significance': Actual Readers, Specific Reading Communities" Alistair McCleery, "The Return of the Publisher to Book History: The Case of Allen Lane" Sarah Brouillette, "Corporate Publishing and Canonization: Neuromancer and Science-Fiction Publishing in the 1970s and Early 1980s" Paul Gutjahr, "No Longer Left Behind: Amazon.com, Reader-Response, and the Changing Fortunes of the Christian Novel in America" The State of the Discipline: The Epistemology of Publishing Statistics
Table of Contents - Volume 4 (2001)London Publishing 1640-1660: Crisis, Continuity, and Innovation ¡¡ Table of Contents - Volume 3 (2000)
Table of Contents - Volume 2 (1999)Germaine Warkentin, In Search of "the Word of the Other": Aboriginal Sign Systems and the History of the Book in CanadaT. H. Howard-Hill, "Nor Stage, nor Stationers Stall Can Showe": The Circulation of Plays in Manuscript in the Early Seventeenth Century Eleanor F. Shevlin, "To Reconcile Book and Title, and Make 'em Kin to One Another": The Evolution of the Title's Contractual Fucntions K. A. Manley, Rural Reading in Northwest England: The Sedbergh Book Club 1728-1928 Melanie Archangeli, Subscribing to the Enlightenment: Charlotte von Hetzel Markets Das Wochenblatt fur's schone Geschlecht Nancy A. Mace, Litigating the Musical Magazine: The Definition of British Music Copyright in the 1780s Leon Jackson, The Reader Retailored: Thomas Carlyle, His American Audiences, and the Politics of Evidence Daniel Barrett, Play Publication, Readers, and the "Decline" of the Victorian Drama Alexis Weedon, From Three-Deckers to Film Rights: A Turn in British Publishing Strategies 1870-1930 Joan Shelley Rubin, The Boundaries of American Religious Publishing in the Early Twentieth Century Beth Luey, "Leading the Public Gently": Popular Science Books in the 1950s THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE: Edward Kasinec, with Robert H. Davis, Jr., The Rise and Decline of Book Studies in the Soviet Union Table of Contents - Volume 1 (1998)The Editors, An Introduction to Book History Ian Donaldson, The Destruction of the Book Fiona A. Black, Bertrum H. MacDonald, and J. Malcolm Black, Geographic Information Systems: A New Research Method for Book History Richard B. Sher, Corporatism and Consensus in the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: The Edinburgh Booksellers Society in Comparative Perspective. Sherry Lee Linkon, Reading Lind Mania: Print Culture and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Audiences Alice Fahs, The Market Value of Memory: Popular War Histories and the Northern Literary Marketplace, 1861-1868. Amy M. Thomas, There Is Nothing So Effective as a Personal Canvass: Revaluing Nineteenth-Century American Subscription Books. Michael Hancher, Gazing at The Imperial Dictionary. Shef Rogers, Crusoe among the Maori: Translation and Colonial Acculturation in Victorian New Zealand. Priya Joshi, Culture and Consumption: Fiction, the Reading Public, and the British Novel in Colonial India. Emily Jenkins, Trilby: Fads, Photographers, and Over-Perfect Feet. Arlen Viktorovich Blium, Forbidden Topics: Early Soviet Censorship Directives. The State of the Discipline: Wallace Kirsop, Booksellers and Their Customers: Some Reflections on Recent Research. Advisory Editors for Book History Carol Armbruster Bill Bell Roger Chartier Marianna Tax Choldin Robert Darnton Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Donna M. Farina David Finkelstein Patricia Fleming Peter R. Frank Juliet Gardiner Philip Gura Wallace Kirsop Beth LueyArizona State University Joel Myerson Gordon B. Neavill Madison U. SowellBrigham Young University Larry Sullivan G. Thomas Tanselle Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala James L. W. West III Ian Willison |
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