18th century
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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.
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
I recently defended my dissertation titled “Reading Between the Lines: Mapping El Orinoco Ilustrado” at the University of Arkansas. El Orinoco Ilustrado (1741), written by the Jesuit Joseph Gumilla, has…
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Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen, eds. Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.
This collection sheds new light on an understudied period of book history and interrogates commonly held assumptions about the Enlightenment’s impact on the European book trade.
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Jane McLeod. Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottière Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers.
A microhistory of 31 members of a French provincial printing/bookselling family, this book examines the Labottières’ rise to prominence, the works they printed and imported, their business and familial connections…
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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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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.…
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Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe, Eds. Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe’s edited collection, Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies, is a necessary reminder of the huge strides made by the field of…
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Pamela’s Letterbox
At first, the move from in-person instruction to an online Zoom classroom seemed like it would hit us particularly hard in Dr. Matt Kirschenbaum’s “BookLab: How to Do Things with…