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OverviewBook 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ezra Greenspan , Jonathan RosePublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.594kg ISBN: 9780271034188ISBN 10: 0271034181 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 07 October 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsContents 1. The Secrets of Success: Microinventions and Bookselling in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands Laura Cruz 2. Thomas Lechford’s Plain Dealing: Censorship and Cosmopolitan Print Culture in the English Atlantic Jeffrey Glover 3. Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment Richard Yeo 4. Contesting the Page: The Author and the Illustrator in France, 1830–1848 Keri A. Berg 5. Composing the First Leaves of Grass: How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks Matt Miller 6. “Sir, It Is an Outrage”: George Bentley, Robert Black, and the Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain Solveig C. Robinson 7. Geneva v. Saint Petersburg: Two Concepts of Literary Property and the Material Lives of Books in Under Western Eyes Shafquat Towheed 8. “What Would Jesus Do?”: The Social Gospel and the Literary Marketplace Erin A. Smith 9. Books Are Weapons: Wartime Responses to the Nazi Bookfires of 1933 Matthew C. Fishburn 10. Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I Cynthia Brokaw 11. Modern Chinese Print and Publishing Culture: The State of the Discipline II Christopher A. Reed ContributorsReviewsAuthor InformationEzra Greenspan is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Among his other publications is George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (Penn State, 2000). Jonathan Rose is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Program in Book History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. He is the editor of The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001) and the author of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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