Book History, vol. 10
328 pages | 14 illustrations/1 map | 6 x 9 | 2006
ISBN 978-0-271-02766-1 | cloth: $57.00 sh
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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).
The Secrets of Success: Microinventions and Bookselling in the
Seventeenth-Century Netherlands 1
Laura Cruz
Thomas Lechford's Plain Dealing: Censorship and Cosmopolitan
Print Culture in the English Atlantic 29
Jeffrey Glover
Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment 47
Richard Yeo
Contesting the Page: The Author and the Illustrator in France,
1830-1848 69
Keri A. Berg
Composing the First Leaves of Grass: How Whitman Used His Early
Notebooks 103
Matt Miller
"Sir, It Is an Outrage": George Bentley, Robert Black, and the
Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain 131
Solveig C. Robinson
Geneva v. Saint Petersburg: Two Concepts of Literary Property and
the Material Lives of Books in Under Western Eyes 169
Shafquat Towheed
"What Would Jesus Do?": The Social Gospel and the Literary
Marketplace 193
Erin A. Smith
Books Are Weapons: Wartime Responses to the Nazi Bookfires
of 1933 223
Matthew Fishburn
Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I 253
Cynthia Brokaw
Modern Chinese Print and Publishing Culture: The State of the
Discipline II 291
Christopher A. Reed
Contributors 317