Reviews
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Andy Martrich. Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books.
This history of the small Jargon Society press combines bibliography, literary history, and literary criticism to demonstrate that absence deserves study as a poetic form.
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David Pearson, Speaking Volumes & Nicholas Perkins (ed.), Gifts and Books
Taken together, these two books provide insightful and illustrative examples of the centrality of books in social history.
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
I recently defended my dissertation titled “Reading Between the Lines: Mapping El Orinoco Ilustrado” at the University of Arkansas. El Orinoco Ilustrado (1741), written by the Jesuit Joseph Gumilla, has…
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
The SHARP 25th-Anniversary Fellowship supported the research of a case study in my doctoral thesis at The University of Queensland, which is examining minority-language publishing in Australia. The case study was…
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
My research project investigates the Traditional Market Agreement (TMA), a British publishing monopoly that divided the world into British and American markets in the 20th century. The SHARP Award enabled…
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
The project “Filling the Silence Before Rescue: Editorial Trajectories of Afrodescendant Writers in 20th-Century Colombia” examines the cultural infrastructure within which Afro-Colombian authors Arnoldo Palacios Mosquera, Rogelio Velásquez Murillo, Carlos…
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Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen, eds. Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.
This collection sheds new light on an understudied period of book history and interrogates commonly held assumptions about the Enlightenment’s impact on the European book trade.
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Tyler W. Williams. If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi.
This book investigates how examining Hindi manuscripts as material texts rewrites the literary historiography of late medieval and early modern north India.