Book History, vol. 6
320 pages | 10 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 2003
ISBN 978-0-271-02330-4 | cloth: $56.00 sh
Paperback edition is not available
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.
Ezra Greenspan is Kahn Distinguished Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Among his other publications is George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (Penn State Press, 2000).
Jonathan Rose is Professor of History at Drew University. His other books include The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001) and The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001).
Contents
Eighteenth-Century
British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History, Edward
Jacobs
An
Uncertain "Coming of the Book": Early Print Cultures in Colonial
India, Anindita Ghosh
Reading
with a Tender Rapture: Reveries of a Bachelor and the Rhetoric
of Detached Intimacy, Lisa Spiro
"Jack's
as Good as His Master": Scots and Print Culture in New Zealand,
1860—1900, David Finkelstein
Japan
and the Internationalization of the Serial Fiction Market, Graham
Law and Norimasa Morita
Robbery
Under Arms: The Colonial Market, Imperial Publishers, and the Demise
of the Three-Decker Novel, Paul Eggert
Early
Talking Books: Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies, 1880—1920,
Jason Camlot
A Publisher's
Reader on the Verge of Modernity: The Case of Frank Swinnerton,
Andrew Nash
Who
Owns the Means of Cultural Production? The Soviet Yiddish Publishing
Industry of the 1920s, David Schneer
Selling
the Great Tradition: Resistance and Conformity in the Publishing
Practices of F. R. Leavis, Ross Alloway
The
Neo-Classics: (Re)Publishing the "Great Books" in the United States
in the 1990s, Rebecca Rego
The
State of the Discipline: The Politics of Print: The Historiography
of the Book in Early Spanish America, Hortensia Calvo