Book History, vol. 12

Contents

1. With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists Invented the Archive

Elizabeth Yale

2. “Furnished” for Action: Renaissance Books as Furniture

Jeffrey Todd Knight

3. Imperial Reading? The East India Company’s Lending Libraries for Soldiers, c. 1819–1834

Sharon Murphy

4. Establishing Routes for Fiction in the United States: Walter Scott’s Novels and the Early Nineteenth-Century American Publishing Industry

Emily B. Todd

5. The Antislavery Almanac and the Discourse of Numeracy

Teresa A. Goddu

6. Nineteenth-Century Timetables and the History of Reading

Mike Esbester

7. Collected Editions and the Consolidation of Cultural Authority: The Case of Henry James

Michael Anesko

8. Stalwart Giants: Medical Cosmopolitanism, Canadian Authorship, and American Publishers

Jennifer J. Connor

9. Toward a History of Children as Readers, 1890–1930

Kathleen McDowell

10. Rewriting History: The Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America (1935)

Claire Parfait

11. Marketing Virginia Woolf: Women, War, and Public Relations in Three Guineas

Alice Staveley

12. Paperwork: The State of the Discipline

Ben Kafka

Contributors