Reviews
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Adam Smyth, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England.
This volume analyzes the “nature and role of the book in early modern England” and offers new critical perspectives on the history of the book, with an emphasis on the…
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Alexis Easley, ed. British Writers, Popular Literature, and New Media Innovation, 1820-45.
The twelve essays in this volume explore early nineteenth-century Britain’s new media, modes of production, and types of authors, editors, illustrators, publishers, and readers, revealing that features of media culture…
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SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part IV
This is the fourth and last of a series of short reports on SHARP 2024: Global Book Cultures, provided by select SHARPists who were supported by SHARP travel awards. They are…
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Martin Paul Eve. Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History.
Eve unravels networks of conceptual, political, and technological premises embedded in the metaphors we use to label digital technologies of textual production.
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Laura E. Helton. Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.
With clear and engaging prose, Helton animates the inventiveness of Black librarians, scrapbookers, collectors, curators, and archivists who salvaged and preserved records of Black life by and for Black communities…
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John A. Dussinger. Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer: Recycling Texts for the Book Market.
Dussinger’s book carefully curates and edits selections of Samuel Richardson’s writing from two important early periodicals.
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Beth Driscoll. What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age.
This book offers a rich and concise overview of different facets of post-digital reading, skillfully unlocking the black box of ordinary and everyday practices.
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SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part III
This is the third of a series of short reports on SHARP 2024: Global Book Cultures, provided by select SHARPists who were supported by SHARP travel awards. They are presented below…