Reviews
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Andrew Pettegree. The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.
Andrew Pettegree’s new study investigates the multifaceted ways that books shape and are shaped by conflicts, as well as how wars have influenced writing, publishing, reading and collecting practices.
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Ada Maria Kuskowski. Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France.
Ada Maria Kuskowski’s Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France is an innovative study of the earliest customary lawbooks (coutumiers) written in northern France that…
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Lauren Alex O’Hagan. The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions: Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach.
O’Hagan’s monograph unpacks the materiality, social and cultural meanings, and practices of book inscription during the Edwardian period in the UK. It will not only be essential for bibliographers interested…
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Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen. Ed. Jane Potter.
Jane Potter’s new edition of Wilfred Owen’s letters restores previously redacted text and allows us to appreciate the poet in the context of his time.
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SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part II
This is the second 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…
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SHARP 2024: Conversations with the Keynote Speakers
This chat celebrates and reflects on the work presented at SHARP 2024 by keynotes Asha Rogers and Swara Shukla. If you missed the in-person conference, you can watch recordings of Asha’s…
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SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part I
This is the first 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…
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Stevie Marsden. Prizing Scottish Literature: A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards.
Stevie Marsden’s Prizing Scottish Literature pieces together the history of one of Scotland’s oldest literary awards, which is granted by the Saltire Society. Despite the book’s emphasis on this little-known…