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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…
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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…
