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David Faflik. The Literary Gift in Early America.
Faflik’s book examines the gift book as a carrier of exchange—between giver and receiver, publisher and author, and author and reader—in the form of five reception histories.
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Andrew Campana. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media.
In “Expanding Verse,” Andrew Campana takes us on a tour through modern Japanese poetry operating at the extreme margins of media.
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Karen Wade. Mudie’s Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth-Century Novel.
This small but perfectly formed paperback delves into the nineteenth-century role of Mudie’s Select Library in shaping British Victorian literary culture.
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Evanghelia Stead. Goethe’s Faust I Outlined: Moritz Retzsch’s Prints in Circulation.
Stead’s book stands as the definitive treatment of its topic and blazes new methodological and interpretive paths in interdisciplinary publishing history, iconography, and reception studies.
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Vanessa Warne. By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture.
This volume explores blindness and culture in the nineteenth century predominantly in English-speaking contexts through the reading and writing habits of blind authors and literary characters.
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Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage, eds. Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions.
A substantial and carefully assembled volume that brings together a wide range of current research, whose generous illustrations and clear technical descriptions make it a useful reference work as well…
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Aakriti Mandhwani. Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India.
In this engaging and well-researched book, Aakriti Mandhwani uses the commercial publishing sphere to understand and reimagine the middle classes of 1950s and 1960s India.
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Meredith Martin. Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody.
Martin’s book illuminates the often invisible digital infrastructures that influence our understanding of poetry and its data.
