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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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
My research project investigates the Traditional Market Agreement (TMA), a British publishing monopoly that divided the world into British and American markets in the 20th century. The SHARP Award enabled…
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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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Seth Kimmel. The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain.
Seth Kimmel’s book traces the exchange and uses of information collection and organization practices across Iberia and the Mediterranean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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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…
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Frances E. Dolan. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth Century Agriculture.
The goal of Digging the Past is stated early with the question, “Is it possible to approach the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource…
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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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Lesser, Zachary. Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
The central methodological claim of Lesser’s case study is that an attention to the long and disparate lives of each individual copy helps us to better understand the making of…