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Australasian Rare Book School: The Origins of Rare Books
Australasian Rare Book School The Origins of Rare Books University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ 30 January–3 February 2017 This summer, thanks to SHARP’s excellent scholarship program, I was fortunate enough…
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Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, and Knut Oterholm, eds. Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory, Practice, Politics
Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, and Knut Oterholm, eds. Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory, Practice, Politics. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016. ix, 404p. ISBN…
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Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 222p., ill. ISBN 9780823272891. US$ 27.00 (paperback), US$ 95.00 (hardcover). I have written…
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Alexander Starre. Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization
Alexander Starre. Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. 310p., ill. ISBN 9781609383596. US$ 55.00. Metamedia is part of the…
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Graduate Essay Award 2017
This year’s Book History Graduate Essay Award goes to Kathryn A. Schwartz, for her essay titled “Did Ottoman Sultans Ban Print?” The entire field of the history of the book…
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David Peplow, Joan Swann, Paola Trimarco, and Sara Whiteley. The Discourse of Reading Groups: Integrating Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives
David Peplow, Joan Swann, Paola Trimarco, and Sara Whiteley. The Discourse of Reading Groups: Integrating Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. ix, 203p. ISBN 9780415729697. US$…
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Turning the Page: New Directions in South Asian Book History
Turning the Page: New Directions in South Asian Book History University of Chicago Center, New Delhi 9–10 March 2017 This two-day workshop was organized by the University of Chicago in…