Reviews
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Freya Johnston. Jane Austen, Early and Late.
Freya Johnston’s Jane Austen, Early and Late reframes Austen’s work by reading the author’s juvenilia, short texts, and other so-called minor writing in conversation with her six major novels. Instead…
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Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition.
Four years after releasing their novella, The Frankfurt Kabuff, an erotic thriller set at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires (alias Blaire Squiscoll) have published this unique…
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Matthew Rubery. Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences.
As seen in the recent Disability and Accessibility in Book Studies Bibliography published by SHARP News, there is not currently a lot of work published at the intersection of disability…
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Adam Gordon. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic.
Each chapter of Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites centers on a particular nineteenth-century American critic: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rufus Griswold, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, and Frederick Douglass. The book’s introduction…
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Jeff Jarvis. The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet.
In 2011, journalist and digital media expert Jeff Jarvis published Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (New York: Simon & Schuster),…
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Mark Alan Mattes, ed. Handwriting in Early America: A Media History.
In 2010, changes to American education standards eliminated the mandate to teach handwriting in public schools. As a result many states dropped the practice in classrooms. Yet in recent years…
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Reid Byers. The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom. Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway (editors). Country House Collections: Their Lives and Afterlives.
In 1883, Jules Richard wrote that once a bibliophile has a collection of more than a thousand volumes, the room where they are kept quickly becomes a shrine – ‘devient…
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Ileana Baird, ed. Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture.
Over ten finely documented and illustrated chapters, Ileana Baird and her twelve contributing writers offer scholars of the long eighteenth century (1660-c1800) a timely high-tech methodology: graphical conveyance of information.…