20th century
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Andy Martrich. Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books.
This history of the small Jargon Society press combines bibliography, literary history, and literary criticism to demonstrate that absence deserves study as a poetic form.
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Nicola Wilson et al., eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020.
The companion disrupts traditional histories by attending not only to women’s work in publishing but also to the networks and collaborations that sustained so many women’s careers in the publishing…
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Deborah Parker. Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters.
Belle da Costa Greene, famous for her work as the first librarian of the Morgan Library, is brought to life through her letters to art critic and historian Bernard Berenson…
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Daniel Matore. The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry.
The first systematic study of typographical experimentation in twentieth-century poetry, this book highlights the often overlooked role of typography in shaping poetic meaning and form.
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Laura E. Helton. Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.
With clear and engaging prose, Helton animates the inventiveness of Black librarians, scrapbookers, collectors, curators, and archivists who salvaged and preserved records of Black life by and for Black communities…
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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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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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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…