Book History, vol. 7
336 pages | 24 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 2004
ISBN 978-0-271-02476-9 | cloth: $56.00 sh
Paperback edition is not available
Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the Historyof Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP).
Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of thebook, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination,and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes researchon 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 Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Among his many publications is George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (Penn State Press, 2000).
Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. His publications include The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation; The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes; and (with Simon Eliot) A Companion to the History of the Book.
Contents
Book Dedications and the Death of a Patron: The Memorial Engraving in Chapman’s
Homer
John A. Buchtel
An Invitation to Buy and Read: Paratexts of Yiddish Books in Amsterdam, 1650–1800
Shlomo Berger
“. . . To Collect and Abridge . . . Without Changing Anything Essential”:
Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi
Neil Safier
Recovering The French Convert: Views of the French and the Uses of Anti-Catholicism
in Early America
Thomas S. Kidd
“Jane Eyre Fever”: Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of
Charlotte Brontë in Antebellum America
Cree LeFavour
Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era: An Essay in Generic Norms
and the Contexts of Reading
Barbara Hochman
Another Look at “The Life of ‘Dead’ Hebrew”: Intentional
Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society
Iris Parush
Translated by Saadya Sternberg
Bringing Books to a “Book-Hungry Land”: Print Culture on the Dakota
Prairie
Lisa Lindell
“Books Worthy of Our Era?” Octave Uzanne, Technology, and the Luxury
Book in Fin-de-Siècle France
Willa Z. Silverman
The Writer, the Critic, and the Censor: J. M. Coetzee and the Question of Literature
Peter D. McDonald
Reading: The State of the Discipline
Leah Price
Contributors