SHARP

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

Book History

General 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:

Online access to the full text of the journal is available to subscribers to Project Muse and to all members of SHARP (create your login here).

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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 "@").

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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.

Here's how to join SHARP.

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.

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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?Mirror

Emma 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

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Table of Contents - Volume 8 (2005)

Kay Amert Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne

Paul 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

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Table of Contents - Volume 7 (2004)

John A. Buchtel, Book Dedications and the Death of a Patron: The Memorial Engraving in Chapman’s Homer

Shlomo 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

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Table of Contents - Volume Six (2003)

Edward Jacobs, Eighteenth-Century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History

Anindita 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

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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

  1. "Book Production in British India, 1850-1900" Robert Darnton
  2. "Quantitative Method, Literary History" Priya Joshi
  3. "Number Magic in Nigeria" Wendy Griswold
  4. "Very Necessary but not Quite Sufficient: A Personal View of Quantitative Analysis in Book History" Simon Eliot

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Table of Contents - Volume 4 (2001)

London Publishing 1640-1660: Crisis, Continuity, and Innovation
John Barnard

Reading in Questions and Answers: The Catechism as an Educational Genre
in Early Independent Spanish America
Eugenia Roldan Vera

The Failings of Popular News Censorship in Nineteenth-Century France
Thomas J. Cragin

Caxtons of the North: Mid-Nineteenth Century Arctic Shipboard Printing
Elaine Hoag

Ringing the Bell: Editor-Reader Dialogue in Alexander Herzen's *Kolokol*
Helen Williams

Literary Surveillance in the British Raj: The Contradictions of Liberal
Imperialism
Robert Darnton

Before Nature Writing: Hougton, Mifflin and Company and the Invention of
the Outdoor Book, 1880-1900
Eric Lupfer

Booksellers and Bestsellers: British Book Sales as Documented by *The
Bookman*, 1891-1906
Troy Bassett and Christina M. Walter

The Paratext of Everything: Constructing and Marketing H. G. Wells's *The
Outline of History*
Matthew Skelton

How Well Read Was My Valley? Reading, Popular Fiction, and the Miners of
South Wales, 1875-1939
Chris Baggs

Canon without Consensus: Rabindranath Tagore and "The Oxford Book of
Bengali Verse"
Rimi B. Chatterjee

THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE
Sacred Texts in the United States
Paul Gutjahr
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Table of Contents - Volume 3 (2000)


Gerald de Malynes and Edward Misselden: The Learned Library of the
Seventeenth-Century Merchant
Andrea Finkelstein

Procuring Books and Consuming Texts: The Reading Experience of a Sheffield
Apprentice, 1798
Stephen Colclough

Reassessing the Reputation of Thomas Tegg, London Publisher, 1776-1846
James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes

"Hotten: Rotten: Forgotten"?: An Apologia for a General Publisher
Simon Eliot

Serialized Artists' Biographies: A Culture Industry in Late Victorian
Britain
Julie F. Codell

Psychological Crystal Palace?: Late Victorian Confession Albums
Samantha Matthews

Beyond the Death of the Author: Matthew Arnold's Two Audiences 1888-1930
Bill Bell

Nelson's Victory: A Scottish Invasion of French Publishing 1910-1914
Peter France and Sian Reynolds

How the Other Half Read: Advertising, Working-Class Readers, and Pulp
Magazines
Erin A. Smith

Book Propaganda: Edward L. Bernays's 1930 Campaign Against Dollar Books
Ann Haugland

What We Talk About When We Talk About *The New Yorker*
Trysh Travis

The Best Seller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction
Laura J. Miller

THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE:
Terra Incognita: Towards a Historiography of Book Fastenings and Book
Furniture
Eike Barbara Durrfeld

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 Canada

T. 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

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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.

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Advisory Editors for Book History

Carol Armbruster
Library of Congress

Bill Bell
University of Edinburgh

Roger Chartier
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Marianna Tax Choldin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

Robert Darnton
Princeton University

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
University of Michigan (emerita)

Donna M. Farina
Drew University

David Finkelstein
Napier University

Patricia Fleming
University of Toronto

Peter R. Frank
Stanford University Libraries (emeritus)

Juliet Gardiner
Middlesex University

Philip Gura
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Wallace Kirsop
Monash University

Beth LueyArizona State University

Joel Myerson
University of South Carolina

Gordon B. Neavill
Wayne State University

Madison U. SowellBrigham Young University

Larry Sullivan
College John Jay of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

G. Thomas Tanselle
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala
University of California at Los Angeles

James L. W. West III
The Pennsylvania State University

Ian Willison
University of London Centre for English Studies

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