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plenary presentation, 'What do Scholars literary anthologies are now supplemented Want?,' were concerned with how to confront with comprehensive online facsimiles that a technological shift that has left the academy challenge pre-conceived notions of strict in its wake. McGann argued that the 'ivory canonicity attributed to these common stu Technology, Textuality, and tower' status of academia has excluded schol dent texts. Jim Mussell similarly disturbed Transmission ars from conversations about the changing conceptions of digital genres by arguing that University of Edinburgh technological shape of the universal library. a hybrid digital project combining strict edito 16-18 JulY 2010 As a result, few solutions have been developed rial standards with practices of commercial for supporting digital scholarship at the insti archives (including large-scale digitization, The 2010 Material Cultures Conference, tutionallevel. McGann's own Ros.rettiArchi7)e is OCR, and data-mining) can aid in represent hosted by the Centre for the History of the faced with the possibility of a state of 'deep ing the diverse qualities of serial publications Book at the University of Edinburgh, exam preservation' because there are no financial online. In the panel, 'Going Digital,' Eleanor ined the troubled intersections between book means to sustain the operability of completed Shevlin demonstrated ways of researching history and the digital humanities. This topic projects. McGann pointed to the commercial book history that are unique to an online was carried through eight panels, a roundtable sector's development of technological inno environment, and David Buchanan intro discussion, aptly named, 'Gutenberg Again?' vation to explain the lack of support for the duced StreetPrint, an open-source software with participants Jerome McGann, Kathryn long-term sustainability of digital materials. tool for easily creating online collections, Sutherland, and Alan Galey, and plenary Although McGann proposed few solutions to which raises pressing questions about the talks by Roger Chartier, Peter Stallybrass, the problems facing academia and libraries in accessibility and usability of traditional web and Jerome McGann. Taken together, these the twenty-first century, perhaps his strongest archiving practices. discussions may well represent the most sus call was to bring the digital humanities into the Because digital archives are representa tained effort to examine the conjunctions of undergraduate classroom so that its import tions of material books, it seems indisputable these two fields. Recurring conference themes translates beyond scholarly circles. Similarly, that book history is involved in the develop included the sustainability of digital texts and Sutherland described the current moment as ment of the digital humanities as a discipline. archives, the need for new research methods the incunable age of digital media. She argued However, the Material Cultures Conference in book history to interpret such texts, and the that the humanities have waited too long, seri demonstrated the myriad ways that scholars inherent omissions within digital representa ously compromising their ability to intervene of the book are latecomers to these conver tions of print culture. in a conversation that is already underway. sations and also made a cogent case for the The most resounding note, however, was Many of the panels, including 'E-Text,' necessity of their future involvement. Peter Stallybrass's reintroduction of techno 'Electronic Text,' 'E-Books and Their Dis logical determinism as a subject for debate contents,' 'The Book Reloaded,' and 'Digital Jessica DeSpain in his plenary talk, 'Printing and the Inven Elisions,' pointed out this scholarly lag and J ollthern TlIinois UnilJersity Edlvardsr'ille tion of Manuscript.' Stallybrass argued that proposed methods, both on the part of dig printed forms, such as immigration forms, ital humanities and book history, for moving tax forms, and even personal checks are ways forward. Both Anne Steiner and John Sav in which print (and printing, a process which age addressed the dearth of tools available is itself a form) has shaped and limited pos for the book historian when attempting to sible human interactions within the nation interpret the electronic text or digital archive. MATERIAL CULTURES 2010 1 state. Underlying Stallybrass's claims was the Other panelists examined omissions in the SHARP 2.0 2 belief that technological change can take on material representations performed by these SHARP HELSINKI 2010 3 a perpetual and independent motion that archives. Whitney Trettien, for instance, used SHARP PRIZES 5 surpasses human intervention. The lagging the Houghton Bible's fore-edge paintings, SHARP 2011 6 human element, which as the conference missing in electronic versions of the text, to BOOK REVIEWS 7 unfolded became largely representative of the discuss how online archives can distort mate E-REsOURCES REVIEW 10 humanities scholar, underpinned many of the rial meaning. EXHIBITION REVIEWS 11 conference's discussions about technology's There were also several panels that cel CONFERENCE REVIEWS 14 long-term effects on human experience, re ebrated the possibilities of the digital medium ANNOUNCEMENTS 14 search, and the universal library. for book historians. In the 'Digital Editions' BIBLIOGRAPHY 15 Both the roundtable and Jerome McGann's panel, Stacy Erickson addressed how recent
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tuned in but we believe that, for each plenary, at least fifty people viewed at least part of the broadcast. Unfortunately, we were unable to record these broadcasts for posterity but hope EDITOR to do so at future SHARP events. Sydn€y S hep, Tl7ai-te-ata Press SHARP was conceived in the same month About a dozen delegates at Helsinki Victoria University of Wellington - August 1991 - that the World Wide Web were 'tweeting' - that is, commenting on the PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand project at CERN was made publicly available. plenary sessions, the paper sessions, or the [email protected] It was one of the earliest scholarly societies conference more generally - with many more to set up a website; SHARP-L was one of the EDITORIAL ASSISTANT - 19.4 following, and commenting on, tl10se post first listservs in the humanities. I'm happy to Angelique Tran Van ings. These tweets (all tagged with '#sharp10' report that SHARP is still keeping up with the Publication Assistant, Wai-te-ata Press or '#sharp2010') have been archived in pace of new technology: a new website, the chronological order at the following ad REvIEw EDITORS webcasting of conference events, and even dresses:
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apparent in the presentations of Barbara rience is to feel grateful to have learned so Sicherman, Kinohi Nishikawa, and Janice much, from so many, in so few days, while Radway. Sicherman discussed black journal at the same time regretting that I missed so ist and activist Ida B. Wells's acquisition and much that happened in the concurrent ses Room for Thoughts of deployment of "full expressive literacy... for sions, at the other banquet tables, on the far self-defined goals" while Nishikawa drew side of the reception halls. Like Finland itself, One's Own connections between the 'black pulp fiction' SHARP 2010 offered room for thoughts of pimp-turned-author Iceberg Slim and - from below, above, and alongside; in When I pulled the Visit Finland booklet out "the cultural practices of street-corner men." webcasts; on Twitter; and in each of us who of my SHARP 2010 tote bag, it opened to a Radway demolished the notion of girl zines as participated in our own way. page with the title 'Room for Thoughts.' "If simply an outsider art, arguing among other vou can't find inspiration in Finland," it read, things that zines offer a complex dissonance Cheryl Knott Malone ;'you probably can't find it anywhere." And in in their positioning of the author/creator as U nilJersity if Arizona fact I did find room for thoughts and inspi someone beyond the individual 'actual self.' ration at my own personal eleventh SHARP The sessions ended with a general discussion =====£0 conference. For many others, it was their first of 'Conceptual Re-Evaluations From Be Since I am a new SHARP-ist and a Ph.D. SHARP conference, and they chose a good low,' with a distinguished group of panelists student, this review is an account 'from one. Some of the best sessions I attended holding up categories and theories for our below' of the 2010 SHARP conference in involved long-time SHARP conference pre reconsideration. After a bountiful welcoming Helsinki. The conference started on Tuesday senters with new attendees - who were not reception hosted by the City of Helsinki, I 17 August with the 'Reading from Below' necessarily also new scholars. could have gone home happy, full of stimulat tour: a half-day trip to explore various sites At the official opening of the conference, ing thoughts to ponder in a quiet room - but north of Helsinki - including the memorial Martyn Lyons delivered 'A New History from two more days of equally engaging papers and cottage of Aleksis Kivi, a famous Finnish Below? The Writing Culture of European conversations awaited. writer. Esko M. Laine from the University Peasants, c. 1850 to c. 1920.' Lyons discussed On Thursday, I enjoyed the session on of Helsinki was the perfect guide. He ex the tension between individual case studies modern libraries in Sweden, England, and plained that peasants in seventeenth-century and more general accounts of writing and Latvia. Later, Johanna Archbold and Carl Finland had to show their reading aptitudes writers. Considering the letters home writ Keyes gave substantive presentations on the in order to be allowed to marry. The clergy ten by immigrants and World War I soldiers, early development of periodicals in Dublin was in charge of administrating the test, and Lyons said that members of the lowest classes and Philadelphia and on the growth of adver priests did not hesitate to punish those who "wrote even when they were barely literate." tising in literary magazines. I was sad to have were unable to read. Some of the peasants The compulsion to write came from a need missed the session on multidisciplinarity but had many children before obtaining the "to hold families together and to manage their happy to find myself at that night's banquet precious certificate, and many preferred to affairs" from afar, according to Lyons. seated next to one of its presenters, anthro flee their village rather than failing the test. On Wednesday morning, the first time pologist Adam Reed, who briefly recounted The last step of our trip took us to Tuusula slot was crammed with intriguing sessions, his work, and the next day made a very help church, where we were welcomed by Dr. at least three of which promised to be espe ful suggestion after hearing my paper at the Laine dressed as a seventeenth-century priest cially relevant to my own research interests. Friday morning panel on 'Reading Environ and his wife also in period costume. Laine I chose one, and it was stellar. 'Cross-Genre ments.' Thursday afternoon's keynote address asked volunteers to stand up at the altar and Perspectives on Reading and Using Books' was interesting, as was the reaction to it. A read a short extract in Finnish, German or featured Barbara Hochman's work on Afri colleague at the talk afterward Skyped with English. Ratl1er than take the dreaded reading can Americans' reading of Uncle Tom} Cabin; a colleague back home who had listened to test, I imitated Finnish illiterate peasants and Joan Shelley Rubin's exploration of composer the webcast so they could discuss Professor escaped. We came back to Senate Square just Howard Hanson's use of Walt Whitman's po Bottigheimer's speech in much the same way before 2pm, in time for the first talk. After etry to create the ideologically fraught "Song they might have after strolling out of the audi welcome speeches, Martyn Lyons from the of Democracy"; and Barbara Ryan's slides torium together, had they both been physically University of New South Wales presented and text depicting and interrogating William there. On Friday morning, I felt lucky that an ambitious talk on the 'old' and 'new' his McGregor Paxton's paintings of women serv my paper was assigned to a session featuring tories from below. His case studies focused ants reading. The next panel focused on book the work of Simon Frost, who regaled us on European peasants from 1850 to 1920, trade personnel, with three wonderful papers with tales of the prolific and seldom-studied with a special focus on the World War I. The by Fiona Black, David Finkelstein, and Sydney self-published novelist Archibald Clavering transnational perspective as well as the focus Shep. They were especially adept at weaving Gunter who entertained many an immigrant on the individual peasants rather than 'the their slides tl1rough their presentations to il in steerage, and Johan Jarlbrink, who took the peasantry' offered interesting insights into lustrate points and provide evidence. unusual and productive approach of com the way the war was perceived by those who Wednesday afternoon, when a combina paring the reading practices of wealthy cafe had little or no formal education. tion of jet lag and lunch should have sent society in Stockl10lm to those of the peasantry Wednesday was a busy day, with panels me napping, I was kept fully awake by the in Sweden's rural south. scheduled from 9am to 5.15pm and a re blending of theoretical and empirical work My customary SHARP conference expe- ception in the evening. The general panel ... / 4
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... /3 discussion on 'Conceptual Re-evaluations discussing the coat of arms displayed on the conclude with some thoughts that I would from Below' featured four speakers, includ wall, a paradoxical environment for a 'from have expressed if time had not run out at ingJonathan Rose from Drew University and below' conference. I had a very good evening, the end of the concluding session of the Johan Svedjedal from Uppsala University. although it would have been better to be able conference. Rose asked the audience to think of an im to choose one's own seat. First, the conference theme, Book Culture portant aspect of book history that might still On Friday, fewer talks were scheduled. I from Below, was threaded through many of be unexplored. I looked at the program of the attended the panel on periodicals and print the sessions and particularly the plenaries conference and realized that there was not a in the morning. Laurel Brake from Birkbeck, held at the end of each day. This interest single talk on would-be writers - all those who University of London, convincingly argued reflects the ongoing research of our hosts, failed to get into print for lack of connections that although the nineteenth-century press, several of whom are part of a multidisci and (sometimes) talent. Responding to a periodicals and books belonged to the same plinary project funded by the Academy of question on the press and other media 'from continuum of print culture, scholars tend to Finland, titled 'The Common People: Writ below,' Rose stated that book historians have create conceptual boundaries between them. ing, and the Process of Literary Attainment to privilege books rather than 'texts' in more In the afternoon, I made my way to the in Nineteenth-Century Finland.' The two ephemeral forms. Svedjedal then offered panel on the 'Materiality of Books.' Christina conference committee chairs, Jyrki Hakapaa comments on the metaphor 'from below,' Ionescu, from Mount Allison University, gave and Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, are engaged in pointing out that this category is relative and a presentation on Rockwell Kent's Candide this endeavor. One of the goals of the project can change over time. After the talk, we all - a topic close to my own research on Ran is to view Finland from an international per enjoyed the hospitality of the City of Helsinki dom House. Kristina Lundblad, from Lund spective. What more economical or effective in the magnificent City Hall. University, also offered interesting insights way is there of bringing the international On Thursday morning, only four panels into title-specific bookbinding. The last talk perspective to one's doorstep than by organ were proposed for each time slot, and each of the day was a general panel discussion on izing a conference such as this one? was held in a different historic venue of a how the aspect 'from below' changes book As Martyn Lyons indicated in his opening sponsoring group, whether the home of history. I had to leave early to catch my flight, remarks on history from below, each scholarly the Finnish Literature Society, the National so I missed the end of the discussion. The generation has been able to look more deeply Library of Finland, the Finnish Academy for long wait at the airport gave me time to reflect into reading and writing practices. Perhaps the Swedish Literature, or the History of Science on what Ann Steiner, from Lund University, pace of transformation, of bringing cultural Museum. These panels were narrow in focus, had said about book historians' neglect of areas that were once considered below the ra befitting their locations, and the microhistori contemporary subjects such as digitization. dar into the scholarly spotlight, is more rapid cal nature of their subjects. Talks of interest To conclude, this SHARP conference thanks to the work of book history and the included Stephen Colclough's presentation was an exceptional opportunity to meet new archives that are being formed to support of the provision of Oxford University Press people from different countries and differ its work. (A shout-out here to Jen Smith and books for mechanics' institutes and other ent disciplines, who all have an interest in the Klaus Nielsen, whose session I chaired, for working class institutions in the 1880s, as materiality of books. Some little things could their provocative papers on unconventional well as Marie-Cecile Bouju's presentation of have been better. Several panels featured three contemporary figures - an artist/ author and clandestine publications in occupied France speakers from the same university, which is a poet/performer - and their reception.) during World War II. In the afternoon and not, I believe, the ideal way to present one's It's always exciting when attending a con back at the main University of Helsinki venue, research; at times there was some variability ference reveals unexpected connections and a choice of eight parallel panels was proposed in the quality of the presentations. On the inspiration to one's own work. The session with a much broader range of subjects. Since practical side, a printer in the computer room headlined by Ruth Bottigheimer who spoke I was taking part on the panel on World War I, would have been useful. But on the whole, the of the origins of fairy tales (Fairy Tales:A Nelv I had to miss other interesting panels such as organizers did a very good job. I felt that the History, SUNY Press, 2009) could not have the one on 'Periodicals and Print.' The session atmosphere was welcoming and supportive been more timely. Her account of the pub on 'Book Culture and Conflict' started with - even for scholars 'from below' such as lished sources - and their readers - through Shafquat Towheed's presentation of Edith graduate students - and I will definitely try to which these tales became part of the culture Wharton's readings during the war. Loretta attend the SHARP conference in Washington was both appropriate to the conference theme de Franceschi from the University of Urbino next year. and resonated for me as the editor of a project then offered an Italian perspective on the Lise Jaillant that will result in the publication of a large books soldiers read in the trenches. Finally, my U nilJerStty if British Columbia, Canada collection of broadside ballads collected by own talk focused on 'Sapper,' who has been the founder of the American Antiquarian largely forgotten as a war writer, although his =====£0 Society in the second year of its existence. He Bulldog Drummond thrillers are still in print. described these as 'songs in vogue with the SHARP 2010 in Helsinki was invigorating I was surprised and pleased at the number of vulgar in 1814.' But is that all? Bottigheimer's - with the company of like-minded colleagues questions that I and other panelists got. In the detective work suggests that uncovering the evening, I joined the banquet at the House of - and easily navigated, thanks to the generous origins of these texts is worthwhile. What Nobility. Seats were assigned and I ended up hospitality and attentiveness of the organizers does this deceptively simple description by with a group of cheerful graduate students and hosts. I'll reflect on the conference theme, the astute printer and publisher Isaiah Tho from all over the world. We spent much time the plenary sessions, the book exhibit, and mas of the collection that he formed really https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol19/iss4/1 4 et al.: Volume 19, Number 4
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mean about these rhyming verses that were their clothes to pay for [the receipt of] a so cheaply printed and distributed in Boston? letter, children going without bread for post Stay tuned! age" (153) as well as those of the opposition I was pleased to see that there was, indeed, who voiced concerns that by making postage a book exhibit. I drifted through a few times DeLong Prize 2009 affordable to the masses it would become a and toward the end of the conference I found vehicle for immorality, crime, debt - and that the very nice representative from Brill without The George A. and Jean S. DeLong prize is very twenty-first-century concern - spam! It a 'customer,' and began chatting with him. awarded to the author of the best book on any is characteristic of Golden's work that she In my current capacity as director of book aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses looks back and forward across history, relat publication, I advise authors - the scholars of script or print published in the previous ing the Victorian letter writing revolution doing research at AAS - that the book ex year. It has been a pleasure to work with the to previous centuries and especially to the hibits at scholarly conferences are not just other jurors on the DeLong prize this year, my concerns and benefits of computer-mediated for shopping for books. They are also for thanks to Amadio Arboleda and Marija Dal communication today. shopping for a publisher and they, it turns out, bello. We have read and evaluated over thirty Following uniform penny postage the re are attending the conference to meet authors! books covering all periods of the history of formers published anecdotes of the benefits What better way to see what - and how - a the book. The prize for the work published in that it had immediately achieved. Golden ar publisher produces work in one's own area 2009 goes to Catherine J. Golden for Posting It: gues that this was not simply empty rhetoric; than at a conference, or to introduce oneself The Victorian Re,)oiution in Letter W17ting issued citing evidence of both the growth in letter to a potential publisher? Conferences with by the University Press of Florida. writing materials, and the collections of let book exhibits have a valuable resource waiting In Posting It, Golden argues that "The ters and cards, many of which have been to be exploited. objects of postal ephemera carry with preserved, Golden upholds the claim that Finally, because time ran out at the them peculiar life histories and inform our "that personal letters of advice, affection, thought-provoking final session that made sense of time and place." Her research into friendship and courtship, although in prior its inevitable way to the impact of digital re postal artefacts is a window to the burgeon use to the Penny Post, increased following sources on student research, I am appending ing material culture of Victorian life from the reform, as much as postal reformers had pre my thoughts. Writing from a library involved humblest family - who because postage was dicted"(196). The huge collection of articles in creating digital surrogates, it occurs to me prepaid could finally afford to receive mail of stationary available from Thomas De La that in all the concern for the limitations of - to the well off, who purchased and used Rue is illustrative of the commercial expan doing research online, what I wasn't hear the paraphernalia of letter writing: the desk, sion of writing materials: "lace letter papers, ing related to the metadata for the online the inkwell, the letter holder and opener, the embossed papers, glazed and coloured papers resources. Students are cutting to the chase pen sharpener and the other items on the in many colours, hand coloured papers, sta - searching key words without the context postal stand at the Great Exhibition of 1851. tionary in fancy packets, 'at home' note cards, that was once as clear as choosing a library Golden argues "that the material artefacts embossed in silver and gold for weddings to use, but now requires some background of the Victorian revolution in letter writing and message cards - on plain white, tinted, on the electronic resources. As was noted, act not only as emissaries of culture but as goffered, enamelled, and 'iridescent papers, young people are intuitively adept at online 'materials of memory'" (7) that inform our the changing colours of which are produced research, so that's not what they need to be understanding of customs, distinctions of by a thin film of colourless varnish'" (198). taught about using the Internet. But isn't there class and gender, attitudes to friendship and Similarly Golden's analysis of the letter col room for exercises that teach about the selec love and aesthetic taste. lections of Victorian writers including Lewis tion and parameters of digitized resources A self-confessed hoarder of 'several shoe Carroll, Florence Nightingale, Beatrix Potter, and their economic models with considera boxes and file folders filled with cherished cor Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Bronte and the tion of the benefit of complementing online respondence' of her own, Golden is at home Valentine cards and Bereavement notes - as research with books? Google is not the whole in deciphering the physical objects, from the well as tl1e ordinary letters like that of the answer and long-time users have observed pens and inkwells, the use of the wrapper and Dunblane school boy - shows the imagina that less is available since the Google Book seal, or the cross writing of letters to ensure tive variety of uses to which authors would settlement. It is just possible that familiarity privacy. She relates these historical artefacts to put their letter writing skills. with commercial databases and originating their fictional equivalents shedding light on the Catherine J. Golden's Posting It never fails libraries (via their websites) could eliminate narratives themselves: in just one of the many to engage the reader with new evidence and hand-wringing about shortcuts to research examples she cites of the practice of posting relates it directly to the literary texts of the and help shape a better approach to scholar intimidating anonymous letters she gives the period. It aptly demonstrates how through ship in the digital age. example of a letter from 'Wildfire' which was the study of the material artefact we gain Caroline Sloat sent in 1862 in order to dissuade competition "insight into nineteenth-century society and American Antiquarian Society from a new London coffee house. It threat Victorian notions of nation, gender, social ened arson. Such abuses of the post were a class and status, aesthetics, identity, privacy, concern of all those who opposed Rowland public space, and authority" (7) - all key Hill's uniform penny post, and it is manifest concepts in critical discourse today. in the fiction of the time. Golden relates the arguments of the postal Alexis Weedon reformers who depicted "mothers pawning S HARP DeLong Prize Committee Chair
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SHARP Graduate Essay Prize look back from the digital age to the print * Redefining periodical cultures - newspa and broadcast revolutions of the twentieth pers, magazines, blogs and digital time; This year's prize goes to Spencer Keralis, century, and examine the diverse experiences * Transformations in the 'world republic a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Eng of print modernity across the globe. of letters' - cultures, careers, corporations; lish at New York University, for "Pictures of The convenors of The Long Twentieth * 'Deprovincializing Europe' - local, Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple Century are very pleased to announce our national, transnational histories of books and Her Readers." keynote speakers, Professor James English and reading; Keralis's essay addresses the extended (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Simone * Web archives and libraries - the ideal of printing and publishing history of one of Murray (Monash University). a universal library and the politics of digital the nineteenth-century's most popular and Dramatic developments in publishing in reproduction. un-killable novels, Susanna Rowson's Charlotte the late nineteenth century coincided with Papers addressing book history in Asia, Temple. That novel has had a special place in equally dramatic changes in the nature of Africa, and post-colonial cultures are espe book history scholarship since Cathy David authorship, reading practices, print markets, cially welcomed, alongside those addressing son's pioneering analysis in the 1980s of the education, and the international trade in Anglo-American, European, and Australasian book's immediate popularity in the newly books. The rapid expansion of print culture contexts. sovereign United States. Davidson's influential was central to the transnational experience of Please submit abstracts to the conference argument integrated two new discourses, gen modernity, and deeply enmeshed in the rise of conveners at
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* What roles have material forms - manu sidered for such grants should complete the about print culture in the Ganzu region, and script, print or digital embodiments or books, appropriate section of the proposal form. the other favors the exploration of previous periodicals, journals, editions - played in the For proposal questions, please email historical studies. histories of artistic and scientific works?
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... / 7 'balanced,' as Craig Kallendorf, the author of Indexing is tedious labor, but the result here as a usurper of priestly office and one who A Catalogue 0/ the Junius Spencer Morgan Collec is a volumen both dulce and utile: beautifully scandalously practices the sin against which tion 0/ Virgil in the Princeton University Library, produced and useful, we predict, for genera he preaches, and the Wife who in the medieval argues in his introduction (1). Over the last tions of scholars in several disciplines, includ world is excluded from public discourse by her two decades, Kallendorf has established ing reception history, art history, history of female body. Chaucer's exploration of these himself as the world's foremost authority reading, and history of the book. ideas, as Minnis makes clear, was keen and on Virgil's Renaissance Nachleben, including, perceptive, but, more to the point, it was also of course, the Roman poet's commentators David Scott Wilson-Okamura very particular and current, since Chaucer was and critics, but also his imitators and, what East Carolina U nil)ersiry responding directly to issues and debates of concerns us here, translators, publishers, his time, not least those arising from Wycliff's and readers. Virgil enjoyed a central place in =====f0 challenges to orthodox traditions. The four the Renaissance curriculum, which inspired chapters of the book, then, form two parts, Alastair Minnis. Fallible Authors: Chaucer's scores of printers and scholars to publish the first on the Pardoner and second on the Pardoner and rVije if Bath. The Middle Ages editions and commentaries. Kallendorf Wife; each part is divided into two chapters, Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylva estimates that the standard bibliography, the first presenting the issues of debate, nia Press, 2008. xvi, SlOp. ISBN 0812240308. Giuliano Mambelli's Cli Annali delle Edizioni primarily between Scholastic and Wycliff-ite $69.95. Virgiliane (1954), describes only one half of thinkers; the second chapter in each half is the volumes that probably exist. This is clear on Chaucer and how these matters of high Professor Minnis here builds upon the from the work that has been done in specific philosophy are reflected in his representation work in his Medieval Theo,:y Authorship and, areas. For the incunable period, we now have C!l of the Pardoner and the Wife. more particularly, "The Author's Two Bod an excellent census by Martin Davies and While the book as a whole is a study of ies: Authority and Fallibility in Late-Medieval John Goldfinch (1992); for Venice to 1599, medieval ethical philosophy and how this is Textual Theory." In this book, as in his previ an exhaustive bibliography by Kallendorf reflected in Chaucer, the preface suggests ous article, he applies to textual theory the himself (1991); and for illustrated Virgils, some ways in which these questions remain a Handbuch and DVD by Werner Suerbaum political idea of The King's Tzvo Bodies (Ernst current. Minnis's interest in such matters (2008). Kallendorf is preparing a short-title Kantorowicz). In medieval and early modern arises in part, he says, from the contrast catalogue in two volumes that, when it comes political theory, according to Kantorowicz, between Bush and Clinton as Presidents; the out, will supersede Mambelli altogether. But one can distinguish between the 'body' of Presidency is a particularly telling example that will not be for some years. In the mean the king as a holder of an office (the politi of the contrast between the high office, sur time, his catalogue of the Princeton collection cal person) and the 'body' of the king as an rounded with its dignity and spectacle, and is an excellent starting point for new research individual with particular ideas, attitudes, the officeholder, subject to scandal through on Virgil's reception, in particular, and, more relationships, and foibles (the ethical person). personal and ethical failure. The introduction generally, on book ownership, publishing, and Such embodiment of authority and fallibility suggests that this book's consideration of illustration. is to be seen not only in kings, but also in medieval ethical philosophy has a currency In his introduction, Kallendorf describes priests, popes, and in the tension between the as evident in the anti-Bush bumper sticker, the history of Princeton's Virgil collection divinity and humanity in Christ - and, Minnis 'N obody died when Clinton lied.' and then gives a brief sketch of the major argues, in the author. Further, he states, in the Similarly, current concerns with scandal commentators on Virgil in each period from later Middle Ages the prioritizing of the two within the Catholic priesthood, and dissat the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. That persons shifted, largely under the influence isfaction with how the Church responds to sounds like something from a textbook, but if of Aristotelianism. More subjective ideas such issues, have roots in medieval Canon so, it is a textbook that, until now, no one liv of personhood came to the fore, and the Law and the medieval Church's decisions on ing has been able to write. The catalogue en dynamics of office versus person came to be how to deal with the sinfulness of priests, tries are divided by language - the great bulk reversed; the Icing or pope was seen as prima primarily by taking an approach that would of the collection is in Latin, but there are also rily a personality, an individual, a subjectivity, minimize scandal, since laypeople must have numerous translations - and interspersed with who exercised such authority as came with confidence in, and must not presume to sit color plates. The text is in color too, with red the position held (12). To illustrate the ten in judgment over, their priests (17-18). Or, ink for catalogue identifiers and field names sion between authority and fallibility within again, within the teaching of literature, as (title page, colophon, physical structure and this late medieval context, Minnis considers Minnis observes, one hears periodic calls to appearance, contents, language, commentar two of Chaucer's pilgrims, who author fallibly have this author or that removed from our ies, illustrations, notes, provenance, binding, but nevertheless with potency. course offerings, yet, if one were to remove references, and shelf mark). What makes all The bulk of the book, as is indicated by the the works of all 'scandalous' authors from of this accessible, and extends the usefulness title, examines Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife the Norton Anthology, one would have little of the whole book to other fields beyond of Bath, the two most highly particularized left (xiii-xiv). Similarly, to step slightly beyond that of classical Rezeption.rgeschichte, is a set of and complex of his creatures, both of whom Minnis into a more recent controversy, should four indices: one for printers, publishers, and claim an 'authority' to teach and to preach, the a Nobel-winning poet and professor of litera booksellers; one for authors, commentators, one claiming expertise in matters of sin, the ture, accused of immoral behaviour (indeed, translators, and editors; one for illustrators other in matters of marriage. Both, however, of 'crimes' - though none have been proven (including engravers); and one for owners. are fallible authorities indeed: the Pardoner in a court of law), be prevented from taking https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol19/iss4/1 8 et al.: Volume 19, Number 4
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up a Professorship of Poetry in Oxford? a cultural 'other,' and the reciprocity of this from Abroad," the cultural mediation of Professor Minnis writes with elegance and process is exemplified by the Anglomania of 'translating' the Italian space into English clarity. At the same time, this book involves Baretti, Alfieri, and Beccaria. The capricci of spaces familiar to the readers. a very dense philosophical discussion which Pannini and Canaletto, combining eighteenth The level of abstraction necessary to ap makes it a slow and challenging read; it deals century London with Renaissance Venice or ply cultural studies to literary texts sometimes with intricacies of high philosophical debate ancient Rome, establish a visual lineage be complicates Schoina's otherwise readable with, as Minnis himself characterizes it, a tween the past glories of Italy and the present style, and makes the book as a whole feel modern Protestant's fascination with me power of Britain. Corinne, on the other hand, slightly fragmented. However, Romantic '/In dieval Scholasticism. And while the scope mediates Italian culture for British taste, and glo-Italians' commendably tries fresh ways to of the book is, in one sense, quite narrowly the difficulties she encounters signify the dif tell a well-known tale. Particularly stimulating focused on a particular question, it pursues ficulties of acculturation and hybridity. is the recurrent emphasis on the discontents a thread that takes us into a great web of in Chapter two discusses Mary Shelley'S of acculturation, which 'de-romanticizes' the terrelated ideas. Though dense and difficult, invention of the 'Anglo-Italian.' Schoina relationship between the English Romantics the book deserves a broad audience; it will invokes Pierre Bourdieu's linking of 'taste' and Italian culture. Though Ashgate could most certainly be of considerable interest to and social difference, although the primary have better supported the author with more Chaucerians and those who find the Pardoner sources alone amply support the argument consistent editing, Romantic '/lnglo-Italians'is a and Wife of Bath intriguing, but also of that 'taste' defines identity. For Shelley, Anglo provocative contribution to the study of Ro great interest to those who are interested in Italians have aesthetic taste and linguistic mantic transnational and cultural networks. medieval philosophy and ethics and how de proficiency, have traveled beyond guidebook bates in those areas had an impact on literary routes and consorted with the native cultural Maria Paola Svampa culture. To those interested in the history of elite; they are an acculturated avant-garde, Columbia UnilJersiry authorship, such as readers of this newsletter, capable in turn of re-educating the British. it offers far-reaching reflections and insights Further, this hybrid identity enables Shelley on the universal tension between the author to claim cultural authority on the basis of her as authority and the author as person. Italian experience, without forsaking female propriety, since the term officially designated 5 HARP News is very pleased to announce Stephen R. Reimer a male coterie. Finally, Schoina argues, the the appointment of a new Book Reviews U nilJersiry if Alberta Rambles reveal Shelley's awareness of "the Editor for the Americas. Mildred (Millie) difficulty of [... ] inhabiting a space in-between =====f0 Jackson is Associate Dean for Collections, cultures" (88). University Libraries at The University of In chapter three, Schoina characterizes Maria Schoina. Romantic '/lnglo-Italians': Con Alabama. She previously held the posi Byron's experience of Italianness as 'insider figurations qf Identity in Byron, the 5 he//rys, and tion of Head of Collection Develop knowledge' of Italian culture, society, and peo the Pisan Circle. Farnham and Burlington: ment at Florida State University, as well as ple, and as the fashioning of a protean identity, Ashgate, 2009. 192p. ISBN 9780754662921. positions at Grand Valley State University continually modified by encounters with cul $99.95. (MI) in the library and as an adjunct faculty tural others. His emotional consonance with member in English and Theater. In addition, Italian culture and his close association with Eighteenth-century geographical theories she has held various positions in special Italians led Byron to underline the uniqueness tied cultural differences to climatic and topo collections at Oklahoma State University, and authenticity of his Italianness, and the Michigan State University and The Uni graphical differences. Combining this princi difficulty of effectively translating this expe versity of Michigan. Jackson has a Ph.D. in ple with the contributions of several decades rience for the unassimilated Briton. Bhabha's English from Michigan State University and of recent cultural studies, Maria Schoina notion of hybridity interestingly applies to an M.LL.S. from The University of Michi analyzes how the experience of Italianness Byron's cosmopolitanism and acculturation, gan; her dissertation was awarded the 'Dain shaped the authorial identities, literary texts, of which Beppo - with its performance of Library History Dissertation Award' from and representational practices of the Shel national identities and hybrid poetic form - is the American Library Association. jackson's leys, Byron, and Hunt. Romantic '/lnglo-Italians' an excellent example. articles and presentations focus on collection builds upon the notions of acculturation, Chapter four examines the founding mem development issues and library administra hybridity, and identity construction in the bers of The Liberal - Percy Shelley and Leigh tion, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth works of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Hunt. The essential Englishness of this group century American literature and composition. Stuart Hall. The methodological framework problematizes the relevance of the Pisan space Jackson has been a Bibliography Fellow for adopted thus presents much of the potential, for the authors' perceptions of identity and the Modern Language Association and serves as well as some of the pitfalls, of comparative belonging. For Percy Shelley, the shift from on the MLA International Bibliography Ad approaches. a feeling of ambivalence to one of being visory Committee. Contact her at: The first chapter examines eighteenth 'rooted' coincided with his envisioning of MildredL.Jackson century representations of Anglo-Italian Pisa as a 'nest' for a utopian liberal commu Associate Dean for Collections spaces and identities, focusing on capriccio nity. By contrast, Hunt's substantially literary The University of Alabama paintings and de Stael's Corinne. Cultures de knowledge of Italy rendered his actual Italian
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printed several editions of a single issue, the is reliant on OCR. A major improvement project team would be digitizing, for example, over commercial counterparts, however, is 100,000 pages of text rather than 67,000, as NCSE's attention to the visual components Introducing Reviews of was the case with one title. Although this of serials; the team added metadata to im meant a re-negotiation of editorial interven ages by hand and created specific searches E-Resources tion, their decisions more accurately illustrate for image retrievaL The NCSE team's com the physical form and context of the seriaL prehensive discourse about editorial and The exciting proliferation of digital The criticisms from scholars (including Brake technical practices as well as their detailed projects in all disciplines and time periods herself) about the volumization and digitiza scholarly apparatus for each of the titles is a has expanded access to and scholarly work on tion of serials are addressed by the NCSE's clear demonstration of the need served by archival materials. However, not all projects inclusion of wrappers, advertisements, front a scholarly digital edition of the nineteenth are made equal, and not all projects serve matter, indices, and special editions temporally century periodical press. the SHARP community. With this review, represented within the site's tiered design. For further information see: Jim Mussell SHARP inaugurates a new section of the The NCSE team chose a cluster of six and Suzanne Paylor. "Editions and Archives: newsletter: E-Resources Reviews. Both sub titles that, taken together, span the century Textual Editing and the Nineteenth-century scription and open-access projects will be the to represent a cross-section of serial diver Serials Edition (NCSE)" from Text Editing, focus of future reviews. To write a review or sity. Titles vary from weekly, bi-weekly, and Print and the Digital World Marilyn Deegan and suggest a digital project, contact this section's monthly; represent both northern and south Kathryn Sutherland, eds. Surrey: Ashgate, editor, Katherine D. Harris
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production permitted the co-existence of a become more familiar with a field that has significant practice of binding documents of not been sufficiently considered, the binding the type on view here. It must be considered of documents. Bookbinding is, in these cases, that although the most important Spanish not only a kind of appropriation where the Artistic Bookbindings in the bookbinding centers were Madrid, Barcelona, owner reworks and adapts a volume to his/ Valencia and Seville, other cities with their her own taste, but also a process of creating Archive of the Nobility own courts, such as Granada, Valladolid and a volume from kinds of documents originally Encuadernaciones Artisticas en Zaragoza, also had roles in the binding of created to remain singular. A visit is a reward el Archivo de la N obleza. documents. ing experience for the book historian who National Historical Archive, Toledo (Spain) All periods and their styles are generally wants to know about the many aspects that Archivo Historico N acional, Toledo represented in chronological order, from the the study of bookbinding entails. (Espana) end of the Middle Ages to the beginning 21 January-21 June 2010 of the twentieth century. One can see the Benito Rial Costas urban and elegant Gothic bindings ('Collec Madrid, Spain The archives belonging to nobility are tion of Letters of Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, 1440-1515'); the 'Mudejar' style with ara an important part of Spanish documentary ===== fJJ) heritage of private origin. Several years ago, besques ('Properties in the Town of Alfaro, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, through the 1581-1595'); fifteenth-century Renaissance The Author's Portrait: General Directive Council of Books, Archives bookbindings with geometric and classical and Libraries, started an effort to conserve, patterns ('Final Judgment of the Lawsuit of '0, could he but have describe and diffuse these kinds of docu Felipe Juan Baltasar Fernandez Pacheco y drawne his Wit' mentary resources. This effort resulted in the Portugal, VI Marquis of Villena, 1619'); the Firestone Library, Princeton University creation of a special section dedicated to the iconographic richness of the Baroque style Princeton, NJ, USA nobility under the umbrella of the National ('Final Judgment of the Lawsuit of Pedro Pi 22 January 2009-5 July 2010 Historical Archive. mentel, Marquis of Viana, against the town of The Archive of the Nobility, currently Viana do Bolo, 1595'); the Neoclassic harmo To the Reader. located in the Renaissance Hospital Tavera nious simplicity ('Genealogical Documents of This Figure, that thou here seest put, in Toledo, was created in October 1993. It Mauricio de Porras, 1794'); the interpretative I t was for gentle Shakespeare cut, is a cultural institution where Spanish noble Romantic bindings; the Modernist sinuosities; Wherein the Graver had a strife archives are kept. Such archives have been and so forth. with Nature, to out-doo the life: acquired in part by the Spanish government The distinction between the three main 0, could he but have drawne his Wit and in part deposited by their owners for bookbinding materials - leather, cloth and As well in brasse, as he hath hit research purposes. paper - are also clearly discernible in the His face; the Print would then surpasse From this heterogeneous collection, the exhibition and allow one to observe the con All, that was ever writ in brasse. Archive of the Nobility has organized the trast between some precious sixteenth- and But, since he cannot, Reader, looke exhibition under review at its headquarters seventeenth-century velvet and silk bindings Not on his Picture, but his Booke. in Toledo. The theme of binding is explored ('Title of Countess of Montenuevo, 1692' -from Bm Jonson s verses if! Shakespeare s in this exhibit through the assemblage of and 'Genealogy of Juan Francisco Paramo y 1623 first folio several binding tools and bound documents, Cepeda, 1658'), and numerous cardboard and displayed chronologically along one single popular styles ('Accounts of Nuestra Senora The latest exhibition in the Main Gallery room. de la Concepcion, 1622-1633' and 'Musical of Princeton University's Firestone Library Although the point of the exhibition is scores titled Aires Vascongadas para Canto features one hundred portraits of poets, nov to highlight bookbinding history and tech y Piano, 1862'). The showcases dedicated elists, and essayists. The well-chosen items on niques, it shows a broad variety of personal to eighteenth-century paper bookbindings exhibition are from the rich holdings of the and familial collections of documents such are simply fascinating. The visitor delights university'S Department of Rare Books and as wills, writs of execution, letters, accounts, in seeing many allegations of various Noble Special Collections. On view are paintings, donations, privileges, legal disputes, property Spanish houses bound with different kinds drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, sale documents, petitions and titles. This fact of decorated paper, such as marbled ('Alle dating from 1481 to 1989. Among the authors explains why manuscripts and printed books gations of Pedro de Alcantara, 1756-1807'), depicted are William Shakespeare, Virgil, are almost not represented, but, at the same pasted ('Allegations of Pedro Zoilo Tellez, Mark Twain, George Sand, Sojourner Truth, time, it makes the exhibit especially interest VIII Duke of Osuna, 1733-1787), printed Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Phil ing, helping to fill a still existing gap in the in woodcut ('Allegations of Juan Domingo lis Wheatley, Confucius, John Milton, Alfred study of bookbinding. It is evident that the de Albisu y Loynaz, 1771') and embossed Lord Tennyson, and Anne Killigrew. They invention of printing was the most significant ('Allegations of Pedro de Alcantara Pimentel, are portrayed by artists such as Constantin factor in the development of binding, how XII Duke of Infantado, 1729-1790). Brancusi, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Willem de ever, it is often not recognized tl1at, as a result Given that the study of bookbinding has Passe, and Auguste Rodin. The multi-talented of a progressive bureaucratization of the Eu often focused on the most sumptuous pieces, William Blake is present in the collection both ropean monarchies, a growing documentary this exhibition is a perfect opportunity to as author and as artist. ... /12 Published by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2013 11 SHARP News, Vol. 19, No. 4 [2013], Art. 1
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... / 11 The exhibition's simple title certainly con about an author? Certainly for long-ago writ breast, she is poised at the top of steep steps veys an accurate description of the works on ers whose image was never frozen in photog just before plunging into the flames below. In view. But it is the suggestive and even sub raphy, an artist's rendering can bring the reader the later one, she is in the background, her versive subtitle, one of the many epigraphs closer to imagining how the author fit into the supine corpse framed by rising flames making that accompany the authors' portraits, that time and place. Does a photograph reveal any only one part of the moral lesson in Book IV hints at the complexity of the relationship hidden secrets of the author's reputation? Or It may be tempting to speculate that human between subject and artist, between writer is it just a publicity gimmick to influence the istic scholarship produced a more dramatic and reader, between time (or era) and place reader's sympathy for the author of the words? scene featuring a tragic figure while the clas (whether in the sense of location or of rank). There is no denying that our apprehension of sical commentary led to something analogous The wide range of media represented in the the physicality and facts of a person - gender, to a history painting. Yet such differences exhibition goes far beyond the classic prints, age, facial expression - affect our impression may have been the product of individual sculptures, and photographs of the traditional of the author's works. artistic intentions, or of the demands made canon. They include the more recent and less Thankfully, the Firestone exhibit provides by buyers willing to pay for a book made to familiar, such as a woodcut of Puerto Rican much context for this thought-provoking and precise specifications. The exhibition wisely poet Luis Pales Matos; a plaster cast death diverting exhibition via an illustrated exhibi leaves such possibilities open. mask of German writer Johann Wolfgang tion checklist, an online introduction
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engraving of Christ flanked by Bernard and Griffin, William Ponsonby, or Michael Sparke; his friend the Irish monk St. Malachy, but book collector Sir Thomas Smith; seasoned also for its illuminated text. The rubricated or novice writers like satirist Henry Neville capital near the bottom of the facing page or General Thomas Gage; rural book ped overlaps the text of Bernard's l)ita, and may The Book Trade in Early dlers; bookbinders; and Scottish, British, have been added by hand to the printed text. Modern Britain and American readers of newspapers and If so, it would have illustrative significance, news pamphlets, drama, travel narratives, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon but possibly one that was felt to fall outside and poetry. Even with an admittedly tight 6-1 JulY 2010 the strict purview of this exhibition. and specific focus, however, each paper also But the questions most pertinently raised simultaneously dug into and illuminated much In his opening remarks to the intimate by this exhibit are those displayed in the larger and wider-ranging political, social, and group gathered in Stratford-upon-Avon first case, which contains three copies of a economic contexts, connections, and impli for the annual Print Networks Conference, single book of universal history, Hartmann cations. Throughout the two days, audience organizer John Hinks explained that this Ju Schedel's Nuremburg Chronicle (1493). Each is members thus learned about how individual ly's gathering was both unique and familiar: opened to a different page, but on each the participants in the book trade could - and did unique in its location (The Shakespeare Insti text describing three cities - Verona, Ferrara, - make an impact on the larger whole. tute) and topic (The Book Trade in Early Modern and Damascus - is illustrated by a reprint of Together, too, all sixteen presentations Britain) but also familiar in its small size and the same woodcut. These three images reveal blurred the lines between the supposedly program of two intense days full of a wealth a kind of print culture ekphra.ri.r, as suggested fixed professional roles and activities in the of wide-ranging information and exciting by Traister's title, with its evocations of the early modern book trade and complicated research about the production, distribution, Renaissance doctnOne.r utpictura poe.ri.r and poe.ria our expected notions of genre, geography, and reception of early print and manuscript. tacen.r,pictura loquen.r. If modern critical theory and early authorship; presenters and audience has generally decided that the sister arts do As Dr. Hinks welcomed the eager group (a members unpacked 'authorial' prefaces writ mixture of literature and history professors, little to illuminate one another, the question ten by publishers, for example, emphasized is still open as to what these oft-reprinted graduate students, librarians, archivists, and the niche markets that suggest that distribu prints are meant to contribute to the books book collectors from Britain, Europe, the tion and circulation moved beyond the reach they adorn. If it is still difficult to understand United States, and Canada with interests and of London booksellers, and linked practices how readers interpreted these images, Reading experiences in a wide range of disciplines in Britain and the Dutch Republic in a suppos Picture.r argues for the importance of Penn as and fields), he also noted that about half of edly isolated period of print. The Book Trade in a center and destination for the scholarship the conference participants were regulars to Earfy Modern Britain, all participants would no that remains to be done on the techniques and the UK's yearly conference and half were doubt conclude, was indeed diverse, compli meaning of book illustration in early modern newcomers - or, rather, he implied, merely cated, and constantly evolving. Drawing con print culture. soon-to-be regulars. Perhaps unintentionally, nections between the materiality and content Christopher Vilrnar these opening remarks perfectly set up the of some of the texts discussed (as well as 5 alisbttt:y Ul1ilJersiry presentations and discussions that followed emphasizing the singularity of each product during two sunny days in Stratford. The talks of a certain 'network' of print), conference by the fourteen presenters and two guest organizers also included a display of several speakers illustrated the kinds of dualities of the relevant texts held by the Shakespeare celebrated by the conference organizers and Institute Library; following a paper about the diversity of the assembled audience; the the careers, output, and interests of book N.H., The Ladie.r Dictionary (1694),John Con topics of each of the papers were appro producers Sparke or Ponsonby, participants sidine and Sylvia Brown eds. Farnham and priately familiar for a conference on print could then examine some of the texts that Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. liv, 780po and the production of early books, unique, appeared from their printing houses and ISBN 9780754651444. $275. unexpected, appropriately diverse, individual bookshops and ponder their own questions, and inextricably connected - giving even the observations, and connections. More an alphabetically-arranged encyclo seasoned audience members something new Further emphasizing the importance of pedia than a dictionary, the publisher John to think about, and creating new perspectives local and international, professional and per Dunton's book was the first substantial ref on the overlapping professional and per sonal, and specific and universal 'networks,' erence volume published in England aimed sonal networks that developed in the British the conference fostered collaboration be primarily at women. The editors of this and Anglophone book trade between 1530 tween its diverse participants as well; during facsimile provide a substantial introduction, and 1750. coffee and tea breaks and lunch outside in the examining the sources of the entries in con True to the conference's overarching focus Institute's beautiful gardens, conversations siderable detail, while a generous index (which on 'networks' of print, many of the presenta continued about the particulars of a certain links the entries to their sources) completes tions centered on the interests or investments paratext or stage direction, or claims about the enterprise. of one particular group or individual partici early modern authorship, politics, and gen pating in the expansive literary marketplaces der - and also extended to related concerns in London and across the United Kingdom and observations about ongoing individual - including printers and publishers like Anne research projects, experiences in the class- 000/14
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... / 13 room, and even a first time visit to Shake that promise to provide equally rich trade Another question with which we need to speare's Stratford. By the end of two days, histories. grapple concerns the historical and physi certainly, the conference goers had formed a I was unable to be present on all three cal imperatives which encouraged different specific, diverse network of their own. days, but the sessions I did attend more than migration and trade patterns. As one audi ]\.!Iore connections, collaborations, and re fulfilled their promise, encouraging lively ence member pointed out, the concept of lationships - 'networks' - are no doubt ahead dialogues between scholars who might oth networks itself might be limited and limiting at future Print Networks conferences; the erwise never have met, working as they do in unless we also consider why goods and peo 2011 conference in Aberystwyth at the Na disparate disciplines and global locations. This ple went to some locations and not to others. tional Library of Wales will center on Religion workshop was so much more than the familiar Here there is room for a new methodology, and the Book Trade, and 2012's conference at disciplinary closed shop where old friends perhaps, which maps not just social and the University of Leicester invites presenta meet; it genuinely opened up an exciting new political history, but also geology, oceanog tions about Cheap Print and the Book Trade. trade route for the exchange of ideas. There raphy, botany and meteorology onto the were several highlights, among them a paper relationships we seek to investigate. Stacy Erickson by Ting Guo (University of Exeter, UK) on These are large questions, and in the Manchester College missionary printers in nineteenth-century interests of an increasingly global and inter China and the role played by literary transla disciplinary profession they will need to tion and the printing press in the formation be addressed soon; methodological oceans of colonial relationships, and a paper by Andy may still divide us, but a common or at least Liu (Columbia University, USA) on the local transferable currency will undoubtedly be and social, as well as global and economic, sig necessary if we are to continue to trade. This Commodities and Culture in the nificance of the nineteenth-century tea trade. project and its workshops are significant and Colonial World 1851-1914 The sessions also raised some key questions timely first steps. that will need to be tackled if networks such Workshop 1: Commodities in as this one are to succeed. Possibly the most Mary Hammond Motion pressing of J:!1ese, is how we are to handle U niversiry if S ollthampton King's College London and Museum of the relationships between micro- and macro London (Docklands), UK histories, and between the empirical and the 5-7 JulY 2010 theoretical - all of which were on offer here - but which, perhaps inevitably at this stage, This workshop marked the launch of a struggled to enter into effective dialogue in new Leverhulme-funded networks project the sessions I attended. There were fascinat which, over the next twelve months, will bring ing micro-historical papers on individuals; Dain Award of the American together scholars from Australia, India, South particularly memorable were the stories of Library Association Africa, the UK and the US. Based in literary the Bombay 'untouchable' and political activ Library History Round Table and cultural studies but using "a variety of ist R.B. More (presented by Anupama Rao, (LHRT) complementary methodological approaches," Columbia University, USA), and of the four these scholars aim to "study the impact of immigrant businessmen in Australia whose The Phyllis Dain Library History Award colonialism, emigration, and global trade on lives intersected in complex ways with both is named in honor of a library historian texts and artefacts produced and consumed indigenous and colonial peoples (presented widely known as a supportive advisor and across the world between 1851 and 1914." by Heather Goodall, University of Technol mentor as well as a rigorous scholar and SHARP NEWS VOL. 19, No.4 AUTUMN 2010 G:l15 context; and significance of the conclusions. of war and the temptations (such as money 1ll the cultural life of late Victorian and A list of previous Dain Award winners can be from government agencies) of an ambivalent Edwardian society. This conference marks found at: Cold Wars 1939-1989 =====f;O University of London 14-15 April2011 A Conference to Mark the Centenary of W. T. Stead This international conference will be British Library, London General concerned with the distinctive ways in which Pedro M. Catedra, G. B. Bodoni] los 16-17 April 20 12 the communication of ideas, news and en espaiioles Volume I. Epistolario de Leandro Fern tertainment was conducted nationally and andez de Moratin] Giambattista Bodoni con otras When William Stead died on the maiden J internationally during World War II and the Cartas sobre la Publicacion de 'La Comedia NUel)a '. voyage of the Titanic in April 1912, he was the subsequent Cold War. The main focus will San Millan de la Cogolla y Parma: Instituto most famous Englishman on board. He was be on print production, but there will also Biblioteca Hispanica del CiLengua, Instituto be an interest in the context for this in terms one of the inventors of the modern tabloid. de Historia dellibro y de la Lectura, Museo of broadcast materials, and documentary and His advocacy of 'government by journalism' Bodoniano y Biblioteca Palatina, 2010. feature films. A range of ideas will be exam helped launch military campaigns. His expose Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer and ined, including propaganda, censorship, the of child prostitution raised the age of consent Lionel Bently, eds., Pril)ilege and Properry: Essqys sustaining of morale at home, and the projec to sixteen, yet his investigative journalism got on the Histor] ?l Copyright. Cambridge, UK: tion of ideologies abroad. Additionally, there him thrown in jail. 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