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SHARP NEWS Volume 25, Number 1 2016 the registration costs as low as possible – acknowledgement of the increasing number THE PREZ SPEAKS their goal is to break even, not to generate of SHARP ‘agents’ (that is, non-officers who profit – but here too costs are increasing. have Society roles), and the formal creation As many of you will know, Elizabeth As an organisation, we do not subsidise our of committees to oversee specific aspects Eisenstein – book historian, international conferences but we do ensure that every of SHARP’s activities. In addition, we are tennis champion, and long-time member delegate pays a small surcharge on top of following the practice of many other scholarly of SHARP – died in January, after a short their registration fee, to fund grants for organisations by creating a ‘policy manual’ illness, at the age of 92. The Printing Revolution individuals without which they could not that will sit alongside the constitution and in Early Modern Europe (1983), the abridged attend the conference. In this way, SHARP will detail our day-to-day working procedures. and illustrated version of The Printing Press 2015 in Montreal generated $7000 to support As I write this, a draft of the revised as an Agent of Change (1979), was one of delegates this year, and by attending Paris constitution has been submitted to our the very first books I bought as a masters’ you too will be helping to support delegates Board for comment and approval; if they student and I remember vividly the intellectual at SHARP 2017. In addition, we are very are happy with it, we will then make the excitement it stirred in me: here, I realised, grateful to the Delmas Foundation for draft text available to all members for further was the field to which I wanted to devote my supporting the attendance of a select group input before presenting a finalised version scholarly career. I met Professor Eisenstein of international early career scholars, who for formal ratification by the membership. first at a SHARP conference in Edinburgh in will also be participating in a pre-conference I look forward to hearing your responses 1995, directing her to the correct lecture hall: workshop at Paris entitled ‘Broadening the once we share the proposed revisions. although I was almost a third of her age and reach of book history around the globe’. Over the past year we have also been somewhat taller, I struggled to keep up as she In my previous column, I mentioned experimenting with the new role of an dashed across the Edinburgh traffic – and that I had asked Past President Leslie Executive Council ‘Assistant’ partly to help then watched as she delivered her keynote Howsam to review SHARP’s constitution. me and my colleagues with some of the more lecture with characteristic brio. Her mental The constitution had been last revised in time-consuming administrative tasks but also and physical energy was extraordinary and 2009 and since then, SHARP has become to support us in more complex projects. I think her lectures captured her at her best: more financially robust, more internationally We appointed Dr Vincent Trott, a London- lively, engaging, informed, ambitious, and diverse – and much more industrious. based book historian working on the First provocative. Although many of us will have Alongside the foundational work of our World War, and he has already helped us get her two-volume magnum opus on our shelves, conferences and publications, we now support a better understanding of our membership’s she was a brilliant essayist, in the full sense of dozens of small book historical events across demographics and has been researching that term, always keen to explore hypotheses the world, provide scholarships at various ways that we could make membership more and to move the debate forwards. She was international institutions, run a translations affordable to scholars working in developing also a model SHARP member: collegial, committee, maintain our own archive, and economies. I will say more about these open, involved, and internationally minded. so on. Our Board of Directors is more active aspects in Paris, but in the meantime I wanted Professor Eisenstein was a scholar of than ever, and I must pay particular thanks to thank Vincent for all his help to date. French history, and so it is fitting that we return to my colleagues on the Executive Council Last year, we announced a competition to France for this year’s SHARP conference. who collectively volunteer hundreds of inviting rare book schools and similar SHARP 2016 in Paris promises to be one hours to support SHARP. The constitution, organisations that offered short courses of the most successful conferences we’ve then, needs to reflect the growing range of relevance to book history to apply for ever had, with more speakers and sessions and complexity of our activities and the three years’ worth of scholarship funds. We than ever before. It promises too to be one increasing number of members holding some kind of official responsibility, and to of the most internationally diverse, and I CONTENTS particularly look forward to welcoming many ensure that we remain accountable to our scholars from across the world for whom membership at the same time as helping this will be their first SHARP conference. SHARP to become a more efficient and THE PREZ SPEAKS 1 Attending a SHARP conference, though, flexible organisation. The proposed changes BOOK REVIEWS 2 is often an expensive proposition, given the include revisions to the number and terms BIBLIOGRAPHY 39 rising cost of travel and accommodation. of the Board of Directors, a slight increase Conference organisers endeavour to keep to the size of the Executive Council, formal SHARP NEWS VOL. 25, NO. 1 2016 d 2 received applications from the Rare Book y dirigida por ella, fue redactada casi por SHARP NEWS School at the University of Virginia, the Book completo por Soledad Acosta de Samper History Workshop at Texas A&M, the Digital – el número de sus colaboradoras fue Humanities Summer Institute at the University disminuyendo a medida que avanzaba la EDITOR of Victoria in Canada, California Rare Book publicación –. La publicación obedeció a Padmini Ray Murray School, the London Rare Book School, the una intención de crear un proyecto político Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology Institut d’Histoire du Livre in Lyon, and the y pedagógico para las mujeres de su época. Australasian Rare Book School. The quality Las editoras distinguen tres discursos que EDITORIAL ASSISTANT – 25.1 of the applications was such that we decided atraviesan la revista: el literario, el histórico Shalmi Barman to award every organisation a ‘SHARP New y el moral. Los números de La Mujer, a Jadavpur University Scholar Bursary’ for 2016, 2017, and 2018, to lo largo de los cinco tomos que Soledad cover course fees along with some contribution Acosta publicó, están compuestos por REVIEW EDITORS to living expenses. These scholarships will be diecisiete secciones diferentes, en las que Books, Australasia/Pacific open only to SHARP members who are estos tres tipos de discurso se entretejen Susann Liebich, University of Heidelberg, graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty, y, en ocasiones, se legitiman a través de Germany adjunct professors, and those within 5 years traducciones que la autora comenta e Books, Europe of their last awarded degree in any discipline; incluso reescribe en algunas ocasiones. Los Christina Ionescu, Mount Allison University, preference will be given to applicants from tres estudios introductorios de las editoras Canada countries outside that of the host institution. serán el punto central de esta reseña. Books, Latin America I will be announcing the recipients of the El primero, “La educación femenina Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida, 2016 scholarships in the coming months. como proyecto político. Los artículos morales FL, USA en La Mujer”, de Azuvia Licón, señala que los Books, North America Ian Gadd artículos morales de Soledad Acosta pretenden Jeffrey Makala, Furman University, SC, USA [email protected] demostrar que la nación puede construirse Erin A. Smith, University of Texas at Dallas, solo a través de una buena educación TX, USA femenina. En los artículos se reconoce un Books, South Asia BOOK REVIEWS intento por demostrar que los roles de la Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, mujer (madre, esposa e hija) necesitan de una India instrucción de calidad. Para Soledad Acosta Exhibitions Carmen Elisa Acosta, Carolina Alzate y la instrucción femenina será el primer paso Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, University College, Azuvia Licón, eds. La Mujer (1878 -1881) de en la reivindicación de la igualdad femenina. London Soledad Acosta de Samper (Periodismo, historia, El segundo artículo, “De la novela Digital Resources literatura). Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, psicológica a la novela de costumbres. Molly Hardy, American Antiquarian Society, 2014. 845p. ISBN 9789586113151. El proyecto narrativo de Soledad Acosta MA, USA de Samper en La Mujer”, de Carolina El libro La Mujer (1878 – 1881) de Soledad Alzate, hace un recorrido por la producción Acosta de Samper, una antología, constituye un BIBLIOGRAPHER narrativa de la autora e identifica tres etapas importante aporte a los estudios de género que caracterizaremos de manera resumida. Cecile M. Jagodzinski y a los estudios literarios y periodísticos Independent scholar La primera sería la que ocurre en torno a colombianos del siglo XIX. Las editoras no Novelas y cuadros de la vida suramericana (1869): c centran la atención del volumen en solo uno las heroínas mueren en la enfermedad que de los géneros que hacen parte de la revista SHARP News [ISSN 1073-1725] is the quarterly ocasiona el amor no correspondido. En 1876, La Mujer sino que, cuidadosamente, incluyen con Una holandesa en América, la autora cerraría newsletter of the Society for the History of Author- artículos morales, relatos de viaje, novelas de ship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.