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Federico Pianzola. Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the Twenty-First Century.
Pianzola’s book analyzes the myriad ways that readers interact with texts and with one another through digital reading platforms.
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Eike Grossmann, ed. Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures.
This collection offers an ambitious and necessary look into the study of manuscript traditions that addresses the long-overlooked contributions of women across diverse historical and cultural contexts.
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Renske A. Hoff. Involving Readers: Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546).
Drawing on dozens of annotated, amended surviving copies, Hoff offers a richly textured account of how early modern readers engaged with their Bibles on multiple levels.
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Derek W. Black. Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy.
In this book, Derek W. Black shows how legislatures, politicians, and apologists in the antebellum US South protected self-interest by denying enslaved and free Black people the ability to read…
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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, this book provides both a visual and critical engagement with Kennedy’s nearly forty-year-long career.
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Patrick Spedding and Paul Tankard, eds. Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins.
This collection shows how the material fact of pages having blank edges offers common ground for scholars with different expertise.
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Élika Ortega. Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas.
Ortega models new ways to talk about literary works that comprise print and digital components.
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Sarah Peters Kernan and Helga Müllneritsch, eds. Culinary Texts in Context, 1500-1800: Manuscript Recipe Books in Early Modern Europe.
A study of recipe collections transmitted in early modern manuscripts produced in western Europe.
