Book History, vol. 7

Edited by Ezra Greenspan, and Edited by Jonathan Rose

Publish Date: 11/15/2004
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Page Count: 336 pages

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Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-02476-9

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

1. Book Dedications and the Death of a Patron: The Memorial Engraving in Chapman’s Homer

John A. Buchtel

2. An Invitation to Buy and Read: Paratexts of Yiddish Books in Amsterdam, 1650–1800

Shlomo Berger

3. “. . . To Collect and Abridge . . . Without Changing Anything Essential”: Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi

Neil Safier

4. Recovering The French Convert: Views of the French and the Uses of Anti-Catholicism in Early America

Thomas S. Kidd

5. "Jane Eyre Fever”: Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of Charlotte Brontë in Antebellum America

Cree LeFavour

6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era: An Essay in Generic Norms and the Contexts of Reading

Barbara Hochman

7. 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

8. Bringing Books to a “Book-Hungry Land”: Print Culture on the Dakota Prairie

Lisa Lindell

9. “Books Worthy of Our Era?” Octave Uzanne, Technology, and the Luxury Book in Fin-de-Siècle France

Willa Z. Silverman

10. The Writer, the Critic, and the Censor: J. M. Coetzee and the Question of Literature

Peter D. McDonald

11. Reading: The State of the Discipline

Leah Price

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