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Book
History, Vol. 5
Edited by Ezra Greenspan & Jonathan Rose
September 2001 | 6 x 9 inches |
304 pages
Literature, History
Hardback: $56.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-02245-1
Winner of the 2000 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Book
History is the annual journal of the Society for the History
of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP).
Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history
of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination,
and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research
on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing,
printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals,
newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries,
literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education,
reading habits, and reader response.
Contents
Morton's
Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England,
Matt Cohen
Adults
Only? Children and Children's Books in British Circulating Libraries,
1748-1848,
M. O. Grenby
Internationalizing
Book Distribution in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Origins of
Finnish Bookselling, Jyrki Hakapää
Franz
Josef's Time Machine: Images of Modernity in the Era of Mechanical
Photoreproduction,
Marija Dalbello
Dickinson
as Child's Fare: The Author Served Up in St. Nicholas,
Ingrid Satelmajer
Seeking
"Significance": Actual Readers, Specific Reading Communities,
Christine Pawley
Corporate
Publishing and Canonization: Neuromancer and Science-Fiction Publishing
in the 1970s and Early 1980s,
Sarah Brouillette
No
Longer Left Behind: Amazon.com, Reader-Response, and the Changing
Fortunes of the Christian Novel in America,
Paul Gutjahr
The
State of the Discipline: The Epistemology of Publishing Statistics
Book
Production in British India, 1850-1900, Robert Darnton
Very
Necessary but Not Quite Sufficient: A Personal View of Quantitative
Analysis in Book History, Simon EliotEzra
Greenspan is Professor of English at the University of South
Carolina. Among his other publications is George Palmer Putnam:
Representative American Publisher (Penn State, 2000).
Jonathan
Rose is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate
Program in Book History at Drew University. He was the founding
president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading
and Publishing. He is the editor of The Holocaust and the
Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001) and the author
of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
(2001).
