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were also several editions of Harriet Beecher The exhibit even examined unusual speci- Exhibition Reviews Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, most opened to mens of visual culture from shortly after the engravings of Eliza’s crossing of the Ohio, Civil War. The most fascinating of these was one of the novel’s most iconic scenes. Milton Bradley’s “Myriopticon,” a history of Emphasizing the importance of less the war in 22 color pictures on one continu- Home Front: Daily Life in the popular histories of the Civil War, another ous scroll in a cigar box which readers would Civil War North part of the exhibit examined the impact of have viewed by scrolling from left to right Newberry Library, Chicago the Civil War on Native Americans. This with two wooden knobs. Beside this was an- 27 September 2013 – 24 March 2014 section displayed illustrations of native vio- other series of five stereographs of slave life lence which Northern audiences would have from the Oliver Barrett collection, which visi- Unlike many exhibits commemorating viewed, including extreme engravings of re- tors were able to manipulate and experience the 150th anniversary of the American Civil ported massacres occurring in northwestern using stereograph viewers. These two objects War, the Newberry exhibit focused less on and western territories. One illustration from served as a productive contrast between the scenes from battles and soldier life and more Harper’s poignantly captured the newspaper’s stylized popular military histories of the Civil on Northerners’ general view of their world. patronizing stance on native issues: a scene in War, and the stark realistic photographs of This exhibition’s curators strove to present which a boy survivor of the Minnesota massa- what life was like for many whose lives were a wide range of items that would depict the cre identifies “Indian murderers” provides an directly affected by the war. printed and painted stimuli Northerners ironic visual for Harper’s subtitle—“Journal This exhibit was useful not only to schol- viewed during the war, especially items that of Civilization.” Another sobering engraving ars of the American Civil War but also to don’t receive as much attention in popular depicted the public execution of 38 Sioux those more broadly interested in the printed retellings of the Civil War. The exhibit makes Indians in Mankato, Minnesota. This section and visual culture of the nineteenth cen- abundant use not only of the Newberry’s vast also contained what may have been the most tury. Book historians and those with even a holdings of nineteenth-century newspaper distinctive item in the exhibit ‑ a depiction casual interest in the Civil War also found a engravings from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated of the Sand Creek Massacre hand-drawn and wide array of objects to surprise and inter- Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, and Vanity Fair colored on a sheet of paper by one of the only est them. but also other print materials such as music Cheyenne survivors. The curators, Peter John Brownlee and scores, books, pamphlets, maps, stereograph Popular culture and domestic life at the Daniel Greene, joined forces with three cards, letters, and even non-printed items home front featured in the exhibit as well: colleagues for a companion volume: Peter such as paintings from the Terra Founda- a tricolor newspaper print depicted Chicago John Brownlee, et al. Home Front: Daily Life tion. Curators also occasionally paired texts cadets in one of the popular Zoave-style in the Civil War North. Chicago: University of by well-known authors such as Emily Dick- regiments, which adopted clothing styled after Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 022606185X. 219 inson (from the collections edited by Mabel French forces in Northern Africa such as fez- pp. 90 color plates. $35. Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson) and Walt zes and short cut coats with tasseled edging. Zach Marshall Whitman (including an 1865 Drum Taps) with Nearby was a woman’s dress which had, in University of Wisconsin, Madison exhibit content. turn, been influenced by the soldiers’ Zoave One part of the exhibit explored depic- uniform styles. This section also examined tions of the South and slavery for Northern depictions of women working in cartridge audiences. For example, one display con- factories stuffing bullets into gunpowder car- Contents trasted depictions of contraband slaves in tridges. Like many other sections, the exhibit stereographs and in popular newspaper illus- display text turned a critical eye to its materials, Exhibition Reviews 1 trations; the stereographs emphasized slaves’ noting that Harper’s celebratory illustrations The Prez Speaks 3 three-dimensional humanity when observed of women packing the cartridges elided the Book Reviews 4 through the viewer, whereas many newspaper terrible dangers of the work. Of particular Exhibition Reviews Cont. 14 engravings reverted to stereotyped, often significance to Chicagoans was a part which Conference Reviews 17 “minstrel-ized,” images of slaves, which trivi- displayed illustrations, badges, and newspaper Scholarship Report 19 alized slave suffering. In addition to plantation clippings related to the Chicago Sanitary Fairs maps of the lower Mississippi and illustra- of 1863 and 1865, the latter of which was The SHARP End 19 tions of the cotton production process, there overshadowed by Lincoln’s assassination. Bibliography 20
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The Human Comedy: Chronicles haunted by shadows of text showing through SHARP News of Nineteenth-Century France from the verso of their supports. These Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio shadows are a reminder for viewers that these lithographs were part of everyday life, not cre- editor 3 September – 22 December 2013 Sydney Shep, Wai-te-ata Press ated for the few but for the masses. Just a few Victoria University of Wellington of the lithographs on display were printed as PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand 6140 Intrepid print lovers are in for a treat on part of a numbered series for individual sale. [email protected] the second floor of the Allen Memorial Art Described by print scholar Peter C. Marzio as Museum in Oberlin, Ohio. French satirical “democratic art,” the lithographs were created Editorial Assistant – 23.2 prints, lithographs to be precise, sketched and for a mass audience and were available to any- Sara Bryan printed by Honoré Daumier, Paul Gavarni, one who read or saw the newspapers. Unlike Publication Assistant, Wai-te-ata Press and other French artists, adorn the walls American contemporary artists Currier and of the Ripin Gallery. Oberlin is well known Ives, best know for their colored lithographs Review Editors for its art collection and this exhibit is no that were sold to the masses, almost all the Joanna Howe, Books – Europe exception. The curators of this exhibit bring images in this exhibition are black line and Bath Spa University, UK together a selection of the museum’s nine- shading on newsprint. Color lithographs by [email protected] teenth-century prints focusing on the human Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, comedy, à la Honoré de Balzac and Émile and others are a treat amidst the more subtle Millie Jackson, Books – Americas Édouard Charles Antoine Zola. Contempo- grey tones. University of Alabama, AL, USA rary drypoint etchings, engravings, charcoal This exhibition is curated by Libby [email protected] or graphite drawings, and woodcut prints Murphy, associate professor of French at are also included in the exhibition. Here and Oberlin College, with assistance from AMAM Susann Liebich, Books –Australasia/Pacific there albumen and silver print photographs Curatorial Assistant Sara Green and Curator James Cook University, QLD, AUS are hung alongside prints portraying similar of European and American Art Andaleeb [email protected] topics. Political events and everyday life are Badiee Banta. The curators focus the exhibit captured in the pen strokes, prints, and within captions on content and graphics, not on Abhijit Gupta, Books – South Asia photographic emulsions. Groupings of prints the lithographic process itself. There are Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India by topic are introduced in short paragraphs no examples of printing plates or partially [email protected] discussing the artists, the times, and the completed drawings. Each image is complete subjects. Each print is accompanied by text unto itself. Nevertheless, the evolution of the Lisa Pon, Exhibitions that sets the image into cultural and political lithograph, as both political commentary and Southern Methodist University, TX, USA context. French captions are translated into ephemeral object, is evident to the observant [email protected] English for easy comprehension. student of prints. As the viewer enters the gallery, he or she Historians of print hoping to study the bibliographer sees external walls and exhibition cases hold- lithographs after the exhibit closes (when Cecile M. Jagodzinski ing lithographs. The inner walls are adorned they will again be available in the research Bloomington, IN, USA with photographs and other prints with rooms of the museum) will be disappointed [email protected] subjects that echo the lithographs they face. that the exhibition lacks a catalog of images Subdued lighting and quiet ambience are jux- and captions. The museum website describes subscriptions taposed with the subjects of the lithographs the exhibit using a static image by Daumier. The Johns Hopkins University Press originally printed and distributed through While there is no virtual collection, the online Journals Publishing Division newspapers. The viewer might expect street catalog of the Allen Memorial Art Museum PO Box 19966, Baltimore, sounds, laughter, and noisy conversation prints and paintings is available at
A Global Organization. We recognize I urge all members to read the full docu- The Prez Speaks that SHARP aspires to be a global, diverse ment and to offer comments. Once the com- and interdisciplinary organization. SHARP menting period is over, the Futures committee should support members and their activities will collate all the responses and begin turning wherever they are in the world and in whatever those observations and recommendations language. into a strategy that can then be formally Back in July 2012, the Executive Council Conferences. We believe that SHARP’s presented to the membership. (that is, SHARP’s elected officers), and the annual conference is our flagship product; we Board of Directors jointly agreed to establish also value the local character of all SHARP c a ‘Futures’ committee to draw up a strategy events. However, we believe that SHARP for the Society’s next decade. SHARP has needs to sustain a high intellectual standard become a mature, robust, and successful and exemplify the most advanced work in the As many of you will know, we have re- organization, but it is facing many challenges field. SHARP should find ways of enhancing cently appointed Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne ‑ technological, disciplinary, geographic, our conference quality and extending our University) and Beth le Roux (University of linguistic, demographic, bureaucratic, and conference offerings. Pretoria) to join Jonathan Rose as editors financial. These challenges, as the commit- Scholarship and access. We recognize of Book History ‑ many congratulations to tee’s terms of reference outlined, “need to be the responsibility of SHARP to engage with them both. The field of candidates was a assessed, opportunities identified, priorities the challenges and opportunities attendant particularly strong one, and I’m very grate- agreed, and strategies developed.” upon new forms of scholarly dissemination ful to our appointments committee ‑ Claire Strategic planning is, of course, nothing and interaction in the digital age. We welcome Squires, Fiona Black, Jason Ensor, Abhijit new for any large organization. Nonethe- Johns Hopkins University Press’s Green Gupta, Barbara Hochman, Bob Patten, and less, it is crucial that in thinking about our Open Access policy as far as Book History is Miha Kovac ‑ for their careful and considered future, we don’t lose sight of our priorities concerned and will seek further advice on the deliberation. The appointment of new editors and achievements as an organization. To that practicalities of this policy. SHARP should has also provided us with the opportunity to end, the committee comprised a selection also explore hybrid modes of production adopt a new online management system for of present and past officers of the Society and dissemination for current and anticipated handling all submissions to Book History. We’re alongside current members from a range of publications. still at the evaluation stage but a new system backgrounds and disciplines. We also circu- Administration. We recognize the consid- should be in place come the summer. lated a survey to the membership as a whole. erable unpaid labor of SHARP’s volunteers. Meraud Ferguson Hand and Kathy Harris Each committee member and all the current However, there are advantages (continuity, have recently stepped down from their duties officers produced a short paper based on their professionalization, accountability) to re-al- as bibliographer and e-resource reviews editor own experiences of SHARP; these, along with locating certain tasks and activities to pro- for SHARP News respectively—on behalf of the responses from the membership, formed fessional staff. We also encourage SHARP the Society, I’d like to thank them both for the basis of a day-long strategy meeting held to explore ways of improving democratic their hard work over the past several years. in Washington, DC, just before last summer’s processes, including transparency and com- Finally, our Membership Secretary, Elean- Philadelphia conference. munication. or Shevlin, has been tirelessly exploring ways The outcome of that meeting was a single Membership. We explored possibilities of making our individual memberships go document which identified what the commit- for improved recruitment and retention of further. Members can now claim discounts tee felt were SHARP’s priorities for the next members. from Ashgate, from the University of Mas- decade and included a number of specific Pedagogy. We believe that teaching and sachusetts Press for their Studies in Print areas and topics for the Society to consider. learning complement and enhance SHARP’s Culture and the History of the Book series, This document was circulated first to those current emphasis on research and publication. and from Oxford University Press for their unable to attend that committee meeting, then We recognise too that pedagogy encompasses recent History of Oxford University Press. We to the Executive Council and the Board of a range of strategies from transmission to have also negotiated a 50% discount for Directors, and is now being shared with the inquiry-led teaching. JPASS which allows individual subscriptions whole membership for further comment. Advocacy. We feel that SHARP should to JSTOR. And there are more discounts in The document is available as a Google take on a more active advocacy role in the pub- the pipeline… document:
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Gulliver’s Travels and McLaverty on George and handwritten annotations on the books Book Reviews Faulkner, Swift’s Dublin printer. The third themselves. Through these, he offers an part of the volume looks at Swift’s books in overview of readership in different contexts a broader context: Claude Rawson writes on and communities. Paddy Bullard and James McLaverty, eds. mock editions from Swift to modern times, The first chapter is an introduction to what Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book. and Daniel Cook on posthumous publication reading meant in early modern Spain. Utilising Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, of Swift’s works; Ian Higgins considers the quotations from sixteenth- and seventeenth- 2013. xvi, 304p., ill. ISBN 9781107016262. important topic of Swift and censorship while century authors, such as Pedro Mexía, Diego £60 / US $95 (hardback). Adam Rounce looks at Swift’s texts between de Cabranes, Juan de Zabaleta and Diego Dublin and London. de Saavedra, Castillo Gómez resumes the Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book Swiftians and book-history addicts will find contemporary debate about the ‘utility’ of contains the kind of detailed scholarly work something novel and stimulating in each chap- books. On the basis of strict moral criteria, a that one hopes to see emerge as a by-product ter of this enjoyable book; I can also highly book was considered to be a good one when of a project such as the new seventeen-vol- recommend the introduction, by the joint edi- it would lead individual readers to the truth: ume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan tors James McLaverty and Paddy Bullard. This reading fictional literature or too many books Swift. Close examination of Swift’s works by is a masterpiece of elegant, succinct scholar- was considered potentially dangerous. Use- the Cambridge volume editors has thrown ship that indicates the relationship between ful reading is therefore the focus of chapter up many matters that can only be hinted at the themes covered in the book, showing the two, where the author stresses the difference in volume introductions but that can be ex- range of original scholarship behind the Swift between owning and reading a book and, panded into valuable essays in their own right. Works project and the value of the textual edit- moreover, actually understanding and remem- In matters of book history, this is particularly ing even of well-known texts. The Swift who bering its content. The practice of reading for apposite for a writer like Swift who was fas- emerges from these pages – obsessive maker study is radically distinguished from reading cinated, all his life, with the book trade as it of books, crafty manipulator of bookmen and for fun or entertainment, and is seen as a developed rapidly around him between his publishing methods, mischievous exploiter of functional preparation for other activities, first publication in 1690 and his withdrawal multiple authorial and editorial voices – was a such as writing and preaching. Handwrit- from public life in the 1740s. Swift loved ex- key figure in the burgeoning publishing culture ten annotations and indexes, as a result of ploiting the new forms of print, using them in England and Ireland in the early eighteenth this both assimilative and creative process, to unmask greedy astrologers, hack writers, century. This beautifully-produced volume are amongst the sources referenced in this grandiloquent (if nominally “modest”) pro- not only reminds one of his significance but, chapter. The examination of different sorts jectors, corrupt politicians and all those taken in itself, of the value of the original scholar- of readers leads us, in chapter three, to meet in by the follies of Whig culture (banks, paper ship that underpins serious textual editing. some prisoners of the jails of the Spanish money, exploration, the need for modern Inquisition and to find out which books, in warfare and so on). Because it concentrates on Andrew Carpenter particular cases, they would be allowed to the writings of one man, this book has a unity Royal Irish Academy, Dublin read. The chapter also considers how books lacking in many contemporary book-history could make their way into a prison and what volumes; the fact that all the contributors have c reading meant for people living in captivity. original things to say about Swift and the book Chapter four is devoted to a few examples of trade – and that most of the essays are based Antonio Castillo Gómez. Leggere nella Spagna collective reading amongst popular audiences, on textual or documentary research – makes moderna: Erudizione, religiosità e svago. Bologna: underlining the role of the reader as mediator this particularly valuable. Pàtron, 2013. 126p. ISBN 9788855532006. in such circumstances. These include the read- The book is in three parts: the first part €14 (paperback). ing of Corano amongst Moriscos and reading considers Swift’s books and their environ- in communities of women, including a female ment, with essays by Stephen Karian on Swift Five of Antonio Castillo Gómez’s essays, religious order, where reading was regulated as manuscript poet, Ian Gadd on Swift and previously published as journal articles, have to a certain extent by the rules of the order the London book trade, and Paddy Bullard been revised and translated into Italian for itself. The final chapter is devoted to the dis- on “What Swift did in Libraries.” The three this publication, supported by editor-in- semination of texts through various channels essays all add substantially to the work already chief of the series Collana di archivistica, to reach the widest possible audience, such published by these scholars and focus the bibliografia e biblioteconomia, Maria Gioia as broadsheets nailed to the city walls and mind clearly on the physical book. In the Tavoni. This book is an attempt to approach doors or in popular meeting places, or cheap second section, Pat Rogers writes illuminat- the history of reading by focusing exclusively prints and single sheet items sold by pedlars. ingly about Swift and the miscellany, while on readership rather than on book owner- Such texts circulated variously for different Marcus Walsh and Abigail Williams expand ship. This perspective dictates the selection reasons: bulls, edicts and ordinances were read the work each has done for one of the Cam- of sources investigated by the author: rather aloud in solemn ceremonies, even before they bridge volumes – Walsh on A Tale of a Tub than focusing on inventories, as is the usual were affixed in public places, to make sure and the “mock-book” and Williams on Swift’s path for studies on reading, Castillo Gómez that everyone – even illiterate members of published correspondence and letter-journals. instead concentrates on evidence emerging the community – was aware of the law; pas- Shef Rogers and James McLaverty contribute from other materials, such as contempo- quinades were displayed or delivered in public valuable bibliographical essays, Rogers on rary images, devotional tracts and manuals, places for propaganda, and circulated both in https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss2/1 4 et al.: Volume 23, Number 2 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 2 Spring 2014 d 5
manuscript and in printed form. for a particular genre. nel. The play, starring Ellen Terry’s brother Castillo Gómez states (38) that he gave up In several instances Dolan considers the Fred, preceded publication of the novel, any intention of a detailed and comprehen- process of composing the relevant texts as and the series of novels, dramatizations, sive study of reading in early modern Spain well as the particular interests they served. and films that succeeded made the native to focus on a more in-depth picture of a She suggests that plays, like other genres, were Hungarian Baroness a wealthy woman, with few readers and their reading habits, stress- disassembled and reassembled by readers to the singular identity of “The Author of The ing similarities shared by the groups that he suit their own purposes. The play is therefore Scarlet Pimpernel.” We weren’t sure my hunch examined. The result is a stimulating book, treated as a “process” or “conjecture” rather that the French Revolution adventures of Sir presenting some interesting case-studies. Its than a “stable object of analysis” (203). Read- Percy Blakeney were a good example of the episodic nature sometimes makes the author’s ers are compared to “weavers” in their ability proliferating opportunities for serial writers at overall plan more difficult to follow, and the to link together various textual and non-tex- the turn of the century was correct. Sally Du- examples presented are not proposed as a tual materials, and today’s critics are advised gan demonstrates in fulsome and admirable representative sample. However, this fasci- to follow the path of early modern readers detail that indeed the history of the Scarlet nating approach to the topic raises a number by “imaginatively reconstructing” the mean- Pimpernel league, rescuing French aristocrats of issues which deserve new and careful ing of a text by bringing outside information from the tumbril, provides an extensive view consideration in the panorama of studies on to their reading of it (203). Dramatic texts, into a large set of interlocking historical and the history of reading. like other texts, she argues, require a “theory cultural forces at play in the first half of the Flavia Bruni of relationships among different kinds of twentieth century. University of St Andrews, Fife evidence and different kinds of truths” (204). This is an admirable study, noteworthy Using evidence from dramatic texts involves for the thoroughness of its research and the c the ability to comprehend new information by scope of its undertaking. Dugan sets Orczy’s Frances E. Dolan. True Relations: Reading, means of what one already knows. initial efforts, magazine thrillers largely about Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Both portions of the book engage with the middle-European revolutionaries, in a rich England. Philadelphia: University of Penn- work of historians and literary scholars who context of late-Victorian history, adventure sylvania Press, 2013. viii, 336p., ill. ISBN have attempted to understand and interpret stories, the Boer war, and Orczy’s immigrant 9780812244854. US $59.95 / £39 (hard- similar texts or who have discussed problems identification with British, later more specifi- back). relating to evidence and interpretation. Dolan cally English, civilization. In some ways this criticizes both for the ways in which they have is more reception history than book history. Early modern literary scholars, intellectual used dramatic texts for evidentiary value and Reception must, in this case, be understood historians, and historians of science have for offers an alternate method of interpretation: to include the Baroness Orczy’s own absorp- some time been investigating testimony and texts are to be interpreted in the context of tion of (1) mythological (primarily ancient witnessing as a means of establishing truth other texts and information. The interpreter Greek), (2) chivalric (Arthurian romances), and the relationship between fact and fiction. or reader is thus viewed as crucial to the mean- (3) nationalist (the English gentleman, Frances E. Dolan’s True Relations: Reading, ing of a text, and readers are characterized as Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys), (4) literary/ Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century active rather than passive when they engage in historical (Carlyle, Dickens, Michelet), (5) England is a welcome addition to this body of practices of selection and connection. imperialist (siege of Mafeking, upper classes, work. Dolan focuses primarily on a body of Both those interested in the history of newspaper rivalries), (6) artistic (Franz Hals’ texts, often titled “True Relations,” that dealt reading practices and contemporary literary Laughing Cavalier, Orczy and her husband with monsters, disasters, traveller’s reports, theory will find Dolan’s efforts interesting. Montagu Barstow’s arts training), and (7) crimes, miracles, scientific experiments, and detective (Sherlock Holmes) predecessors, observations. She examines the strategies by Barbara Shapiro and the global response to her hero’s exploits which readers dealt with doubts and prob- University of California, Berkeley that reinterpreted him for modern times. She lems arising from the truth claims of such transformed the Polish nihilist of her earliest reports, demonstrating how contemporary c periodical thrillers into a Regency gentleman, evidentiary standards were connected to plucking “traditional aristocracy from the those strategies. Sally Dugan. Baroness Orczy’s “The Scarlet historical dustbin,” as Len Platt puts it. Orczy The book is organized around two themes. Pimpernel”: A Publishing History. Ashgate then manages ‑ if only partially ‑ to control The first, “Crises of Evidence,” deals with a Studies in Publishing History. Farnham, Sur- the evolution of Sir Percy from a Regency series of dramatic events that became the oc- rey and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2012. xviii, fop understood after Wilde as homosexual casion for contesting standards of evidence: 296p. ill. ISBN 9781409427179. £60. ISBN to a witty and resourceful English cavalier, the trial of Jesuit Henry Garnet, a series of 9781409427186. £60 (ebook). then on to the embodiment of British sang witchcraft narratives and conventions, and froid in wartime, and eventually, especially accounts of the Great Fire of London. The When Graham Law and I were drafting in films, to a swordsman and pistol-packing second portion, titled “Genres of Evidence,” our chapter on ‘The Serial Revolution’ for The international superman. features a discussion of trials, domestic advice Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 4 The Scarlet Pimpernel was as much a books, and dramatic texts. Each chapter treats (1830‑1914), I instanced as one example of theatrical as a book phenomenon. Orczy problems of interpretation related to the the radical changes in publishing before WWI and Barstow took her serial “The Sign of kinds of textual evidence that were available the history of Baroness Orczy’s Scarlet Pimper- the Shamrock,” first published in the Daily ... / 6
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... / 5 Express in the summer of 1903, and turned Sir Percy to swashbuckling hero in sequels cal posters, and celebrity photographs, and it from a European spy story into a historical through 1939. Chapter four details Orczy’s traced – through the various threads of her drama about Marguerite St. Just, a French aris- struggle to make her dandy rescuing French intricately woven tapestry – insights by the tocrat hunted by Armand Chauvelin—based aristocrats in the 1790s relevant to British major theorists of culture and book history. on the original Marquis de Chauvelin, an valor during WWI, when France was an ally. She brings out the impact of many paratexts, associate of the Jacobins. She is rescued and This is a fascinating account of refashioning including type fonts designed to modernize transported to England by Sir Percy Blakeney, a legend for contemporary consumption, the Pimpernel mythology; she emphasizes who marries her but remains suspicious as and it is extended in a fifth chapter delving the impact made by the various illustrations, she betrays his secret identity. But that mis- further into the ways the Scarlet Pimpernel wrappers, and cover designs; and she locates step is cleared up, and he enrolls her in his helped create an imagined community for Orczy in the line-ups of newspapers, publish- league of noble knights. (Gradually “the which millions of non-British soldiers died. ers, colonial and school editions (the original cleverest woman in Europe” disappears from His upper class privilege and values had to novel is a spoonful of sugar to students learn- the sequels, until in the last, 1940, novel, her be rendered relevant and sympathetic to the ing about the French Revolution), and Lord only assignment is to look after two orphans. “other classes.” Chamberlain’s Plays Collection. Above all, After Orczy’s death, C. Guy Clayton rehabili- And in this chapter the Hungarian back- the breadth, depth, complexity, and cultural tated Marguerite in three novels where she drop reappears. Alexander Korda (1893‑1956), resonances of Orczy’s Regency hero that impersonates both herself and her brother.) a Jew born in Hungary, founded, in 1932, this study discloses make it a model of book The unpublished drama was adapted in 1903 London Films, which produced a great hit history, more comprehensive and historically by Terry, who played Sir Percy opposite his with The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), starring Leslie impacted than most. wife Julia Nielson as Marguerite. It proved Howard. Himself the son of a Hungarian Robert L. Patten evergreen through their 2,000 performances Jew, Howard gave the iconic portrayal of Sir University of London and unnumbered tweaks to the original script. Percy as an unflappable and unimpeachable The first edition of the novel came out two high culture Anglican who quotes John of c years after the theatrical premiere, in 1905. Gaunt’s speech about “This other Eden, Konrad Eisenbichler. The Sword and the Pen: Costumes and props, especially Sir Percy’s demi paradise” while on his way to meet Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth‑Century quizzing glass, transferred to the screen by death by a firing squad. (A sidebar: Howard Siena. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of the 1930s and marked the Scarlet Pimpernel turned his hero into an everyman when he Notre Dame Press, 2012. xiv, 378p. ISBN as a type of upper-class hero spare of effort, produced, directed, and starred in Pimpernel 9780268027766. US $32 (paperback). master of disguise, expert strategist, and Smith (1941). WWII made the patriotic con- scrupulous intriguer. His elitist heirs, I sug- nections among these Jewish emigrés even This book contributes to the work of gest, include such figures as Dorothy Sayers’ stronger: the movie inspired Raoul Wallen- rediscovery, now in process, of the extensive Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (motto: “as berg to rescue Hungarian Jews from Nazi participation of women in the literary culture my Whimsy takes me”) and the younger son concentration campus. Howard was killed in of sixteenth-century Italy. This participation of a Viscount, Albert Campion (real name 1943 when the Germans targeted the plane was on an entirely different scale to that of Rudolph K----, sporting a flower pseudonym flying him back from war work in Portugal any other European country. In 1549, Siena and horn-rimmed glasses), brainchild of to England ‑ perhaps because they believed was visited by the English nobleman Thomas Margery Allingham. Winston Churchill was on board; there is a Hoby, who noted in his diary that “most of Early on, Dugan notes that book histori- further theory that Howard knew the flight the women are well learned, and write excel- ans don’t necessarily adhere to chronological was doomed and embarked anyway so that lentlie well both in prose and verse” (161). exposition. She follows that precedent. After the Germans would not know their code had Eisenbichler’s book demonstrates that Hoby a substantial introduction covering all the been broken. Pimpernel to the end.) A final spoke no less than the truth. themes of her study, she offers a chapter on chapter tracks the post-war reinvention of the Scholars in the past have often assumed the development of her protagonist from Scarlet Pimpernel in everything from a Frank that women poets were learned maidens: by Polish anarchist to English knight. The Wildhorn musical and Blackadder parodies contrast, these Sienese women were young “germ” of the Pimpernel series was the idea to BBC productions and a famous Warner married women. Noble matrons could evi- that the heroine would betray her beloved Brothers cartoon in which Daffy Duck is the dently accompany their husbands to literary husband because she believes he is a member Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950). Nelson Mandela occasions (evening meetings called veglie). This of an anarchist league whose recognition sign delighted in the journalists’ nicknaming him explains how Hoby, as a foreign visitor with is a flower (the red carnation, then the sham- the “Black Pimpernel” for his anti-apartheid literary interests, encountered their verse. rock, before Marguerite [Fr. daisy], and pim- campaign. These women could exchange and circulate pernel, a variety of English primrose). The The scholarship behind this study is verses with other poets (male as well as fe- rise of Sir Percy, the dilemma of Marguerite, a exemplary. Dugan has explored archives in male) through literary networks; they were type of the New Woman backdated a century, Bristol, Oxford, London, New York, Evan- admired and recognised by contemporaries, and the relocation of nationalism to Britain, ston, Austin, and Chapel Hill. She has read and nobody seems to have suggested that are all foreshadowed in the 1903 Daily Express over 200 of Orczy’s publications, compared their public profile in any way compromised serial, “The Sign of the Shamrock.” Next the manuscript of her autobiography to its their social identity as chaste wives. 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to a poem by Alessandro Piccolomini on Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo. Read- reacts against US cultural domination. visiting Petrarch’s tomb, an exchange which ing Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Con- The chapter on ‘Money’ encompasses survives in four manuscripts. One of the temporary Literary Culture. New York and Oxon, both how MREs are shaped, and how the poems, by Virginia Salvi, deplores her inability Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2013. xix, 349p, ill. profits they generate shape the reading indus- to travel and expresses envy of Piccolomini’s ISBN 9780415532952. US $130 (hardback). try. Corporations like the Ford Motor Com- freedom, but though these women were ISBN 9780203067741. US $130 (ebook). pany earn symbolic capital for token spon- physically circumscribed, they were evidently sorship, such as a donated car. Compared free to form literary friendships. Extensively researched via surveys, focus to such firms’ modes of participation in The second chapter is on the beautiful, groups, interviews, and observation across the more lucrative cultural industries like film or short-lived, and much-mourned patrician UK, the US, and Canada, and using Bourdieu’s television, corporations inadvertently assign Aurelia Petrucci, and the third on the inter- work on cultural production as a framework MREs to a sub-status within an overarching esting Laudomia Forteguerri, who chose to for interpretation, Fuller and Rehberg Sedo’s field of cultural production. Yet unlike film present herself as the Platonic admirer of critical examination of mass reading events or television, books are packaged as “special Margaret of Austria. She was intellectually (MREs) contributes to work on reading such commodities.” Participating readers and ambitious, according to Alessandro Piccolo- as Janice Radway’s A Feeling for Books and Read- underpaid and overworked cultural workers mini, and mourned her lack of knowledge of ing the Romance and Elizabeth Long’s Women (usually women) tend to focus more on the astronomy. Eisenbichler gives the impression and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life, and meaning associated with these events. These that women were barred from scientific study, to work on publishing such as John Thomp- workers are motivated by their own beliefs in but the Perugian astronomer Egnatio Danti son’s Merchants of Culture, or Laura Miller’s reading as a transformative experience, as an acknowledges his aunt Teodora Danti as his Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture agent for social change, and as an inherently teacher in mathematics and astronomy in his of Consumption. Reading Beyond the Book is an valuable cultural activity – all values tradi- translation La Sfera di Messer Giovanni Sacrobosco excellent addition to work on reading during tionally held by librarians and other reading (1571). It might be more appropriate to see the shift from print to digital formats, and on experts. Some MREs cross into the realm both Piccolomini’s and Danti’s translations neoliberalism’s impact on the shrinking book of social work; the authors describe how the as contributions to a new vernacular litera- trade. Rather than “just” examining the “pub- Get Into Reading program in Liverpool takes ture of science, accessible to women. The lishing industry,” the authors take a broader reading to populations not usually associated last chapter is on a politically-minded poet, view, studying impacts on the overarching and with literati, such as the elderly, addicts, and Virginia Salvi, a forceful voice for the Sienese encompassing “reading industry.” those with mental disabilities. pro-French party. Chapters are organized around one-word Participants in MREs get to demonstrate As Diana Robin showed in Publishing titles, ‘Reading,’ ‘Television,’ ‘Radio,’ ‘Money,’ their own intellectual capital as they engage Women (2007), contemporary noblewomen ‘Worker,’ ‘Reader,’ and ‘Book,’ which summa- in high-culture activities around books. By were circulating their verse and otherwise rize the content, yet the boundaries of these participating, readers gain community mem- participating in the public life of their local- containers are not as clearly drawn as the table bership and connections to authors. A signed ity in Naples, Venice, Rome, and Florence. of contents might have us believe. As reading book symbolically connects reader to author This is a distinctive feature of Italian culture, goes digital, MREs obfuscate the boundaries via the materiality of the book, and as texts but Siena was unusually open to friendships between television, radio, and book. shift into new containers, the authors illumi- between men and women, carried on through Starting in 1996 with Oprah’s Book Club, nate readers’ appreciation of physical books, literary discussion, debate and conversation. MREs broadcast via television and radio which illustrates why print books may extend Robin devoted a chapter to them, but they presented new ways of studying readers and beyond ever-changing technologies around well deserved a book of their own. Eisen- reading, and while these events are intended reading. Regardless of format, the authors bichler has clarified his subjects’ biographies for “everyone,” not everyone wants to par- fully expect shared readings to continue, and and their literary, social and political context. ticipate. Televised MREs, like Oprah’s Book the book presents convincing arguments in He also provides extensive translations. The Club in the US or Richard and Judy’s Book Club support thereof. writing is not always felicitous (terms such in the UK, are hosted by non-professional Marianne Martens as ‘moniker’ (169) or ‘politically savvy’ (8) sit reading “guides” presenting literary fiction to Kent State University, Ohio strangely in a discussion of sixteenth-century the masses, and constitute a shared entertain- poetesses), but for all that, this is a useful ment experience that is immersed in popular c volume and a worthy contribution to the culture and represents a way of “doing of ongoing recovery of women’s unusual place culture.” This creates conflict for “serious” Stephen Guy-Bray, Joan Pong Linton, and in Italian public life. readers who prefer not to be associated with Steve Mentz, eds. The Age of Thomas Nashe: Jane B. Stevenson a mass audience seeking “merely” entertain- Text, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early University of Aberdeen ment. By contrast, in the ‘Radio’ chapter, the Modern England. Farnham, UK and Burling- authors discuss a radio show considered more ton, VT: Ashgate, 2013. viii, 208p. ISBN: upmarket than television equivalents: Canada 9781409468059. £60 (hardback). Reads presents the complexities of Canadian communication systems, as this program forg- Thomas Nashe is increasingly seen as es a separate Canadian identity, emphasizes a seminal figure in early modern literature. Canadian linguistic and cultural diversity, and The editors of this new collection sum up ... / 8
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... / 7 his career as that of “a jobbing playwright, considers Nashe’s constructions of literary framework for Zedler’s project. Ina Ulrike occasional poet, a ‘man in print,’ a polemicist, pleasure. The book concludes with a survey Paul makes general observations about the an amateur theologian, and an enthusiastic of Nashe’s current profile in undergraduate status of encyclopedias during the eighteenth pornographer” (1), a list which does not and postgraduate teaching, based on a ques- century. Encyclopedias had become available even include his more traditional titles: proto- tionnaire conducted in 2010. to a wider public, no longer published in Latin journalist, proto-novelist, and satirist. Nashe The book could occasionally benefit from for “the happy few.” Kai Lohsträter discusses is situated at the overlap of “print, stage, and more precision. For instance, when Nashe encyclopedic publications and their close rela- manuscript cultures” (5), and his works are, praises Homer’s poem about frogs and mice, tionship with general interest periodicals for among other things, restless enquiries into he is thinking not of the lost Margites but the Enlightenment readers. At the time, journals the status of the author and the pleasures of extant Batrachomyomachia. Latin is a recurrent and periodicals were ubiquitous, and they readership. For this reason, a new volume of Achilles heel (41, 112, 124, 184); critics are mi- were valuable sources for the authors of en- essays on this chronically underrated figure snamed (99, 126), or misquoted (130); in one cyclopedia entries. There were probably more deserves a warm welcome. or two contributions, the Nashe quotations than 1,000 different periodicals at the time After a brief introduction by Steve Mentz, are startlingly inaccurate, and even the titles of – an impressive number, though some had an this volume consists mainly of nine critical Nashe works are occasionally subject to sub- extremely short lifespan. This compares to an essays. The first of them, by Georgia Brown, stantive misquotation (Have at You to Saffron estimated 220 handbooks and encyclopedias argues that Nashe “plays a crucial role in Walden; Pierce Pennilesse and his Supplication to the available in 1791. A third contribution by unlocking the cultural and political potential Divell). This run of minor blemishes should Werner Telesko discusses the “visual strate- of urbanization for his contemporaries” (21), not, however, detract from the importance gies” employed in the U-L; sixteen full-page relating his work to, in particular, Ovid and of the volume as a whole. These essays are a illustrations emphasize Telesko’s point that The Taming of the Shrew in its exploration of celebration of the richness, complexity, and the engravings stand alone, without a direct the urban condition. An excellent piece by continuing novelty of Nashe’s works. relationship with the text. Jonathan Crewe, “This Sorrow’s Heavenly: Three contributions deal with individual Christ’s Teares and the Jews,” offers an entirely Matthew Steggle entries: Claire Gantet’s close reading of the fresh angle on Christ’s Tears, reading the can- Sheffield Hallam University entry “dream” offers insights into Enlight- nibalistic Miriam as “the Jewish counterpart enment ideas at the University of Halle. to Mary” in a “hyper-parodic Eucharist” c Peter König analyzes the entry “cruelty,” a (41), and arguing that in doing so she enacts vice which is given more attention than for a Renaissance fantasy in which Jewishness Kai Lohsträter and Flemming Schock, eds. instance “greed” or “mercilessness.” The consumes itself. Also highly stimulating is Die Gesammelte Welt: Studien zu Zedlers Univer- concluding article of the volume by Jutta Steve Mentz’s exploration of Lenten Stuff, in sal-Lexicon. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, Nowosadtko is a meticulous study of the which the “limitless extra-urban economy” of 2013. viii, 332p., ill. ISBN 9783447065702. biographical entry on Theodore of Corsica sea fishing (64) offers Nashe an escape from €64 (hardback). (1694–1756). feminized narratives of romance. Mentz’s The remaining nine contributions deal piece is in dialogue with Jennifer Andersen’s Printed encyclopedias are rapidly dying out with complex concepts and their representa- “Blame-in-praise irony in Lenten Stuffe,” which and Wikipedia now dominates the “market” tion. Sabine Todt analyzes the representation offers an impressive amount of historicist for universal knowledge. This development, of body image and sexuality throughout the fact in the course of arguing that the work however, has led to a heightened interest in encyclopedia, offering close readings of the is more hostile to the capitalist workings of the history of printed encyclopedias. In the entries “self-maculation” (masturbation) and the herring industry than has generally been eighteenth century, the Leipzig-based pub- “body as machine”. Tobias Winnerling looks recognized. lisher Johann Friedrich Zedler (1706–1751) at Buddhism in the U-L, whereas Nathanael Elsewhere, John V. Nance describes established a Universal-Lexicon (universal en- Riemer considers the portrayal of Jews, Juda- Nashe as “slashing through orthodoxy with cyclopedia; abbreviated as U-L here) for Ger- ism and other minority cultures. German the meticulous scalpel of prose” (116), an man readers – a gargantuan project, spanning Penzholz examines the U-L’s rendering of expression which one might charitably hope over 20 years (1732–1754) and culminating peace through its entries on peace treaties. to be deliberate catachresis, in the course of in a 68-volume folio publication with about Florian Kerschbaumer deliberates whether an attempt to identify the Cutwolfe of The 300,000 entries. The volume Die Gesammelte the U-L’s description of slavery can be in- Unfortunate Traveller with the figure of Vesalius. Welt – the proceedings of a 2010 conference terpreted as an apology for or an indictment Karen Kettnich studies Nashe’s relationship on Zedler in Wolfenbüttel – begins with an of the slave trade. The arts and sciences are with the figure of Tarleton, and Melissa Hull introduction by the editors, followed by 15 dealt with by Karsten Mackensen (music and Geil analyses images of monstrous birth in chapters that cover impressive ground from its status as “ars” or “scientia”), Ira Diedrich Nashe and the Marprelate pamphlets. Writ- meticulous case studies of individual entries (the representation of literary authors), Sergio ing on Nashe and poverty, David Landreth to more general observations on the repre- Nobre (mathematics), and Karol Sauerland makes the intriguing observation that Nashe sentation of complex topics in the U-L. This (cameralism – the German science of ad- is fascinated by voids, froths, and bubbles, as review will attempt to group the chapters ministration). phenomena on the border between some- according to their focus to give an overview Just as the editors admit that an introduc- thing and the “nothing” that C. S. Lewis saw of the extensive content. tion and 15 chapters cannot do justice to an as central to Nashe’s work. Corey McEleney The first two contributions deal with the encyclopedia with 300,000 entries, this review https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss2/1 8 et al.: Volume 23, Number 2 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 2 Spring 2014 d 9
is only able to scratch the surface of this of journals within the process of knowledge Donald C. O’Brien. The Engraving Trade in fascinating volume. The book offers a wealth popularization, presenting Gutzkow’s failed Early Cincinnati: With a Brief Account of the of new scholarship to readers interested in project Deutsche Revue (1835) as a forerun- Beginning of the Lithographic Trade. Athens, book history, encyclopedias and the history of ner of the national cultural periodical Die Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2013. ix, 194p., knowledge, and will surely be an inspiration deutsche Rundschau, founded in 1874 by Julius ill, bibl. US $39.95. for those working in the field. Lohsträter and Rodenberg. Schock stress the fact that there is much work Part three brings together four chapters on In just under 200 pages, Donald O’Brien yet to be done – perhaps a SHARPist will Gutzkow as a literary author between material- has compiled a descriptive catalog of every continue on the path they have paved. ism and aestheticism. Dirk Göttsche offers a engraving company, artist, and printer in the postcolonial perspective on Gutzkow’s work, Cincinnati area from the time of its settle- Corinna Norrick-Rühl choosing the novella Der Prinz von Madagaskar ment to 1860. This book traces the evolution University of Mainz, Germany (published in two versions) as a case study. The of engraving, printing, and publishing com- 1834 version describes French colonial policy panies in Cincinnati, including artists hired c and daily life in Madagascar; this is missing in and used, publications produced, distribu- the 1846 update. Michael Ansel’s contribution tion, and readership. Wolfgang Lukas and Ute Schneider, eds. Karl deals with Gutzkow’s poetry. Ansel admits that In the six central chapters, O’Brien cov- Gutzkow (1811–1878). Publizistik, Literatur und Gutzkow’s poetic “experiments” are mostly ers early engravers; Doolittle & Munson [fl. Buchmarkt zwischen Vormärz und Gründerzeit. mediocre and conventional. Nonetheless, 1830s–1840s]; banknote engraving from the Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. 240p. Ansel proves that Gutzkow experimented predecessors of the American Bank Note ISBN 9783447069809. €46 (paperback). with free verse and montage. Janice Hansen Company, (est. 1858) until the industry discusses Gutzkow’s play Uriel Acosta (1846), moved to New York City in 1873; the Ladies The bestselling German author Karl Gut- showing how it ties into his pedagogical Repository and the Methodist Book Company zkow (1811–1878), active during the Young concept of educating his audience. Gutz- (the most extensive chapter); wood engrav- Germany movement, has received increasing kow managed an “Ideenschmuggel” in his ing; and finally lithography centering upon attention not only for his substantial oeuvre, work to propagate liberal ideas. Kurt Jauslin Strobridge (1850s–1971). Biographies and but also for his role(s) in a changing literary completes part three with a discussion of the company histories are gleaned from city di- marketplace. In 2010, a conference in Exeter contemporary paradigm shift from philosophy rectories, early periodicals, newspapers, and focused on his relationships with other au- to science on the basis of Gutzkow’s major books. These biographies range in length thors. In 2011, an interdisciplinary conference works Die Ritter vom Geiste (1850–51) and Die from a paragraph to pages with an illustration was held in Mainz; the proceedings have now neuen Serapionsbrüder (1877). or example of the work of each engraver or been published. The volume begins with an Part four discusses Gutzkow’s work as a company. Footnotes at the bottom of pages overview of previous Gutzkow research and critic. This area of Gutzkow research is much entice the reader to delve deeper into the the rest of the book is divided into four parts further advanced than those presented in parts subject to learn more about specific printers, (thirteen contributions overall). two and three. Nikolas Immer analyses Gutz- engravers, and collections. The selected bib- Part one deals with professional author- kow’s criticism of Schiller versus his positive liography includes books and articles on the ship. Gert Vonhoff explains the intricate accounts of Goethe’s work. Bernd Füllner field as well as the publications that included relationship between Gutzkow’s oeuvre and scrutinizes the 1830s literary feud between the engravings. This bibliography overlaps the nineteenth-century literary marketplace. Gutzkow and Wolfgang Menzel (1798–1873), and expands upon Sutton in bringing the Carsten Kretschmann then sketches an image focusing on the early period of the feud. literature up to date, with few omissions of of Frankfurt’s bourgeoisie – Gutzkow spent Last but not least, Anja Peters’ contribution important studies. some time in Frankfurt in the 1830s and reviews the existing correspondence between Where Sutton’s history, now 50 years old, 1840s. Kretschmann argues that populariza- Gutzkow and the author Levin Schücking concentrates on the history of the printing tion of knowledge was a key element for (1814–1883) with particular emphasis on and book trade in Cincinnati for the whole the bourgeoisie of the period; Gutzkow held Gutzkow’s and Schücking’s views regarding of the nineteenth century, and Peter Marzio’s a number of well-received lectures for the the writing process and creativity. Democratic Art traces the history of lithogra- natural history society “Senckenbergische Scholars working on Gutzkow will have phy, O’Brien’s new work concentrates on a Naturforschende Gesellschaft.” already heard about this volume and its unique narrow aspect of the printing trade in the The next part focuses on Gutzkow as a interdisciplinary approach. In addition, this Queen City. Cincinnati, the gateway city in contributor to and editor of periodicals. Anna volume will be of interest to scholars of the gateway state, became an early trans-Ap- Ananieva offers a close reading of “Justus German literature and those working more palachia commercial center because of its Max Schottky, Professor” (1834), which generally on issues of European nineteenth- location on the Ohio River, the concentra- was published in Zeitung für die elegante Welt. century book history. Readers will gain excel- tion of printers, and the early construction Madleen Podewski and Gustav Frank both lent insight into the literary marketplace of the of paper mills. Printers arrived just after the examine Gutzkow’s immensely popular fam- time. In order to appeal to a wider audience, Revolutionary War from the main printing ily magazine Unterhaltungen am häuslichen Herd abstracts in English would have been a help- cities of the East, Boston, NYC, and Phila- – the longest-running periodical he initiated ful addition. delphia, moving west along the Ohio River, (1852–64). Picking up on Kretschmann’s ob- Corinna Norrick-Rühl practicing their trades in Cincinnati and servations, Stefan Scherer reflects on the role University of Mainz, Germany either settling down or moving on. Readers ... / 10
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... / 9 expecting a discussion of the evolution of erine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and these women’s histories. In illuminating the the engraving process will be disappointed, Anne Bradstreet. Each of these chapters extent to which “the … relationship between for O’Brien’s focus is on the careers of the deserves a review of its own (for example actual and rhetorical power in prefatory pro- many men and a few women who participated the section leading up to the sentence: “If fessions of modesty is a strategically and self- in this dynamic industry. Philip Sidney was the ghost in a machine of consciously inverted one” (35), Pender offers The Engraving Trade in Early Cincinnati is Mary’s making, a machine that produced the us a fuller appreciation of the remarkable printed on clay coated paper with reproduc- English author function, the very success of intelligence of the writers we have admired tions of the engravings and lithographs this venture would eventually obscure to later – or refused to admire intelligently – in our printed using half-tone four color printing generations her crucial role in its develop- own time. processes. In a twist of irony, many of the ment” (121). With each examination Pender Chantel Lavoie engravings in the book were reproductions of balances close reading and the complexities Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston popular oil paintings copied and adapted by of time long past. skilled engravers. Almost every page holds an Anne Askew’s tragic story of eloquent c illustration of an engraving. Captions include Protestant martyrdom is enriched with Pen- Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast. Railing, artist, engraver, printer, title, and the institu- der’s analysis of the knowingness behind Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, tion that holds the engraving today. Askew’s recorded words. Katherine Parr’s 1588–1617. The Anti-Poetics of Theater Drawing from collections from all over public testimony of religious convictions and Print. Farnham, UK and Burlington, North America, particularly Cincinnati, after her marriage to Henry VIII is shown to VT: Ashgate, 2012. xii, 246p., ill. ISBN Toronto, Cleveland, and the American be “not circumscribing…literary endeavours 9781409438090. £54 (hardback). Antiquarian Society, O’Brien’s work, while to a socially sanctioned backwater, but rather comprehensive and aimed at the historian boldly entering and claiming a space in the This is a fairly lengthy study of a short of the book, is accessible for anyone with an most heated political debates of the period” but fascinating episode in English literary his- interest in the evolution of the engraving and (69). Mary Sidney’s reimagining of her brother tory: the “railing” vogue of the late sixteenth printing industry. and her own role in the triangle that contained and early seventeenth centuries. Early in her Miriam Kahn him and Queen Elizabeth is ingeniously re- study, Maria Prendergast quotes C. S. Lewis’s Kent State University, Ohio read. Here especially the reality of women comment that “nothing in our period is so c writing not against or in spite of men, but surprising to a modern as the readiness with with them, shines out from the past. which a Lyly, a Nashe, or even a Greene, will Patricia Pender. Early Modern Women’s Writ- Aemilia Lanyer’s sophisticated gendering at any moment launch out into moral diatribe ing and the Rhetoric of Modesty. Houndmills, of “the distinction between Art and Nature” of the most uncompromising ferocity” (1–2); Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. x, allows Pender to engage in the excellent close- and indeed the abandoned, ranting style of 222 p. ISBN 9780230362246. £50 / US $80 reading that characterizes the book, as when the prose pamphlets that comprise the bulk (hardback). she later unpacks the rhetorical falseness in of this literature is disconcerting, novel, Bradstreet’s claim to be like a schoolboy, for and short-lived. On Prendergast’s account, By listing in her introduction critical texts “[f]rom School-boyes tongue, no rhetoric we “railing” makes its first clearly identifiable from the 1980s that argue we should not take expect.” As Pender reminds us, “historically appearance in the Marprelate controversy of early female authors’ declarations of modesty … it is precisely early modern school-boys the 1580s (involving Thomas Nashe, John at face value, Patricia Pender anticipates the from whom we would expect rhetoric” (165). Lyly, Gabriel Harvey, and the pseudonymous reader opening this book in the first place: Particularly fascinating is Pender’s take on “Martin Marprelate”); it finds a second wind hasn’t the rhetoric behind such modesty Adrienne Rich’s dismissal of Anne Bradstreet, in the protracted pamphlet war between been already, adequately demonstrated? Her and the damage as a result to Bradstreet’s Nashe and Harvey in the 1590s, and reappears answer is that such scholarship, even while legacy in American literature (similar to the in the ‘Poetomachia’ plays of Ben Jonson, refusing the simplicity of modest declarations, disservice Henry Louis Gates Jr. pointed out John Marston, Thomas Dekker (and perhaps has largely misinterpreted them, “reading has been done to Phillis Wheatley). Shakespeare) in the 1600s, from which it spills women’s modesty tropes as evidence of their Highlighting the critical prejudice against over into three of Shakespeare’s least-loved subscription to patriarchal mores” (4), rather writings not intended for print, Pender plays, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, and Ti- than as evidence of a more complex and as- frequently recalls Margaret Ezell’s Writing mon of Athens. Its last, slightly anti-climactic, sured range of rhetorical stances. Women’s Literary History (1993). A surprising gasp, apart from some echoes during the Civil In an enjoyable and frequently humorous omission, though, is any mention of Ger- War, is heard in the railing responses of two style, Pender explores with confidence and maine Greer’s Slip-shod Sibyls (1995), which (presumably) women pamphleteers – Jane sagacity the classic tropes employed at “the sparked debate with her partial dismissal of Sharp and Constantia Munda – to a wave of complex moment in which the early modern early women writers in 1995. misogynist writings in 1617. woman writer denies her own authorial agen- The conclusion of the book is somewhat Prendergast argues that railing is a distinc- cy” (2). Following an effective explanation abrupt; a more generous synopsis involving tive style of utterance – abusive, aggressive, of the traditions she identifies in a chapter all of the authors Pender has dealt with would hyperbolic, insulting, scurrilous, and packed titled ‘From Self-Effacement to Sprezzatura: be welcome. This reader’s desire for more, with outlandish and elaborate tropes of Modesty and Manipulation,’ Pender engages however, follows upon the author having fully excrement, dirt, animals, bodily effluvia and with the achievements of Anne Askew, Kath- delighted already in the richness and depth of diseases, especially of the more repulsive https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss2/1 10 et al.: Volume 23, Number 2 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 2 Spring 2014 d 11
skin and venereal varieties, and a preoccupa- Nonetheless, Rak advises her readers, Boom! is different dimensions of an understanding tion with “perverse” sexuality. Readers not not about the readers of memoir, but about its of how memoirs are made. steeped in the railing pamphlets themselves makers. The problem to which she directs her This is a timely topic worthy of scholarly will nonetheless recognise the scabrous scholarly attention is this: “the popularity of scrutiny. Researchers interested in booksell- ranting of Shakespeare’s Thersites in this memoir, or at least the high visibility of some ing and in specific works like James Frey’s description, and be interested to learn its of its texts, is largely unexplained except as the Million Little Pieces and Marjane Satrapi’s provenance. Paradoxically, but I think persua- result of unhealthy obsessions by a vaguely Persepolis will find material germane to their sively, Prendergast wants to insist that railing, described ‘mass’ of common people” (17). subjects here. Those who study linkages for all its superficial offensiveness, functioned Thus begins a study that covers genre, indus- between reading and social interactions will as a source of pure pleasure for its readers try, and the contemporary market for memoir. recognize the concerns articulated in this title. and spectators, a vicarious exhilaration in Rak seeks to elaborate the connections among In some respects, this book could be said the essentially playful experience of a fierce these themes and to reveal the memoir as a to respond to Adams and Barker’s conten- contest in which, for a time, the constraints means of connecting contemporary readers tion that publication is the beginning point of decency and decorum were removed, and to others and to ideas. for the study of print culture. In others, this a discursive space created in which the deep Although her discussion of the historical book might be understood as a microcosm and widespread sense of crisis in England development of memoir as a genre traces its of the types of questions explored in John through these years – social, religious and origins to international texts like Rousseau’s Thompson’s Merchants of Culture. The author political – could actually be enjoyed. Confessions and her theoretical framework cites herself notes several questions not addressed Drawing particularly on the brilliant work scholars from Bourdieu to Todorov, her study in this volume. To these subjects for further of René Girard on desire, rivalry and envy, focuses on memoirs by English-language pub- study, this reader wishes she could add, Tell me and on Queer Theory, Prendergast extends lishers HarperCollins and Random House. She more about your grandmother and her books. and complicates this argument in the later describes the US as a particular site of interest chapters on Shakespeare, for whom railing because she sees, in this country, the belief Jennifer Burek Pierce becomes a vehicle for a more deep-seated ex- that “anyone can tell a story of his or her life University of Iowa, Iowa City istential pessimism. But of particular interest and connect the story to American ideals” c to book historians, surely, will be the examples (32). Rak evokes Barack Obama’s Dreams From she provides in earlier chapters of the ways in My Father and his 2004 speech at the Demo- Ursula Rautenberg and Ute Schneider, eds. which the emerging print economy was itself cratic National Convention as an exemplar of Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens. Vol. 68. embroiled in the railers’ quarrels. Alternately this phenomenon. Yet, at the same time that Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. vi, 242p., ill. ISBN reviled for its indiscriminate outpouring of she scrutinizes US attitudes and bestsellers, 9783110298017. €149.95 (hardback). trash for the market, and worshipped for she bases some of her conclusions about how the freedom and power it conferred on the memoirs are created and consumed on inter- The sixty-eighth volume of Archiv für writer, print became an object of loathing views with Canadian booksellers. While Rak Geschichte des Buchwesens (AGB), published and desire. contends that memoirs in general function in by de Gruyter for the historical committee The book is slightly marred by errors: support of “public belonging,” by construct- of the German Booksellers and Publishers Timon of Athens was not excluded from the ing citizenship as a “lived experience rather Association (Historische Kommission des First Folio (145); there is no etymological than as a formal system of obligations and Börsenvereins des deutschen Buchhandels), connection between ‘scan’ and ‘scandal’ rights” (155), this broad aim is grounded in brings together a wealth of scholarship (198); and ‘Supererogation’ (Pierce’s) is mis- an analysis of non-fiction published in 2003. from early career researchers and established spelt throughout. But these do not detract Rak employs a mixed methodology, as- names within the field, with topics spanning significantly from what is certainly an ambi- cribing her interest in 65 titles from 2003 to over five centuries. The volume contains tious and interesting study of a remarkable random selection and describing the reading three main sections: first, articles based on cultural phenomenon. and coding of “paratextual elements such new research findings (seven contributions Patrick Buckridge as whether the protagonist was famous or overall); second, a research report; and third, Griffith University, Australia unknown, the nature of the back matter book reviews (three contributions). Except c printed on the copies, whether the book for one book review, the contributions was hardcover or paperback, and the cover are in German, usually with brief English Julie Rak. Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for design” as part of a quest for “hard data” abstracts. the Popular Market. Waterloo, Ontario: Wil- about the genre (34). Elsewhere, Rak refers The first three articles based on new frid Laurier Press, 2013. viii, 249p. ISBN to her own reading of “paratexts about these research findings deal with the economics 9781554589395. CAN $29.99. books to see how the reception of certain of printing and publishing. The volume be- memoirs…did in fact link larger political gins with Randall Herz’s insights on a 1490 Julie Rak’s Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for events to the unfolding of individual lives” business contract between Johann Sensen- the Popular Market begins with a memoir of (35–36). While she insists on a need to move schmidt and Sebald Schreyer regarding the her own, a recollection of the readerly life and “away from books as literary objects” (47), commission of 21 vellum missals for the death of her grandmother, a enthusiast of Rak nonetheless relies on “close-readings” parish of St Sebald in Bamberg, Germany. biography whose body was found, face down, as part of her methodological repertoire (35). Herz is known for his meticulous research on page four of a book about Queen Victoria. The combination of approaches produces and this contribution is no exception. The ... / 12
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... / 11 contribution is heavily illustrated, including seven publishing histories published between events, and publishing developments helped four fabulous colour reprints of illuminated 2002 and 2013. Understandably, there are shape these changes. pages. Wolfgang Schellmann focuses on no English abstracts in the review section. I also wanted Spirit to use the introduction seventeenth-century production processes However, Fetzer’s comprehensive and criti- to justify her sometimes idiosyncratic editorial on the basis of accounting records from the cal overview of newer publications would choices. Why did John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl “Lüneburger Offizin der Sterne,” a famous deserve an abstract. Craigie) get a hundred pages and Edith Nesbit printing shop. Schellmann offers detailed As usual, the scholarship in the AGB is of only seven? Why publish the table of contents insights into the production processes, includ- excellent quality. This volume will certainly from Olive Custance’s Opals – is there some ing types of paper ordered as well as sales be of interest to a number of SHARPists, in sense that it reads like a poem in itself? (Quite figures and pricing. Schellmann’s contribution particular those specializing in German book possibly it does, but I would have liked to is followed by Marcus Conrad’s brief article and publishing history. have heard about it.) Why publish an obscure about the economics of the eighteenth- to Corinna Norrick-Rühl unperformed one-act play by Michael Field, nineteenth-century encyclopedia project University of Mainz, Germany rather than any of Field’s celebrated lyrics? “Allgemeine Welthistorie” (transl. “general c The set includes Rhoda Broughton, almost world history”), published by Gebauer. never associated with aestheticism, but leaves The following four contributions cover Jane Spirit, series ed. Sue Asbee, Mary Joan- out whom I would have assumed to be central library history and publishing history from nou, and Claire Nicholson, volume eds. The women aesthetes: Ada Leverson, Elizabeth the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Mat- Women Aesthetes: British Writers, 1870–1900. 3 Robins Pennell, Alice Dew-Smith, Mathilde thias Bollmeyer analyses the private library vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. 1184 Blind, and arguably Mary Ward. I don’t un- of the mayor of Jever and botanist Georg p., ill. (vol. 1: liv, 346p.; vol. 2: x, 374p.; vol.3: derstand why Lucy Crane is included but not Heinrich Bernhard Jürgens (1771–1846). The vi, 394p.). ISBN 9781848932272. £275 / US equally famous aesthetic sisters Clara Pater library consisted of 1,244 volumes which $495 (hardback). and Lily and Lolly Yeats. I know that editors are today preserved in the library of Jever’s have to make hard decisions, and I am certain Mariengymnasium. It was clearly the working The editors of The Women Aesthetes: British that Spirit had good reasons for these choices, library of a bourgeois and scholarly family, com- Writers, 1870–1900 have done an extraordi- but I would like to know what they were. prising 50% legal texts and over 20% botanic nary job compiling rare, out-of-print texts The volumes do have extensive endnotes texts. Cartography is the topic of Nils Güt- from the British Library and Cambridge and biographical headnotes that speak to tler’s contribution, which deals with the hand- University Library. In three volumes, totalling real research challenges, triumphantly sur- colourists employed by the cartographical over 1,000 pages, general editor Jane Spirit mounted. The headnotes on Florence Farr publisher Perthes in the nineteenth century. and the editors of each volume, Sue Asbee, and E. Nesbit are especially worth reading, Sandra Oster’s excellent article about publish- Mary Joannou, and Claire Nicholson, have since these subjects led such extraordinary ers’ portraits is a “Visual History.” She argues rescued hundreds of texts from oblivion, and lives. However, I was most impressed by the that publishing historians tend to focus on this is a tremendous achievement. headnotes on Una Taylor and Olive Custance. textual sources, but images can be extremely However, the set’s value is significantly Taylor’s entry recovers original reviews and revealing as well. Michael Schmalholz rounds undermined by certain editorial and print- places interesting emphasis on her career as off this set of four contributions, discussing ing practices. First, Spirit uses the “General an embroiderer and supporter of the Donegal the collecting strategies and management of Introduction” to try to sum up the readings, Industrial Fund and medievalist craft activi- the Bavarian State Library (BSB) during the which is hardly possible in a collection of ties. This fills out Taylor’s life in a way that First World War. this size. Consequently, the introduction is, I believe, unprecedented. Custance’s entry In the research report, Christina Lem- keeps bogging down in minutiae. The open- offers an appropriately enlightened account brecht deals with the development of the ing three paragraphs, for instance, compare of her same-sex desire and meditates on her academic publishing sector in Germany Lucy Crane’s aesthetic judgments with those style and reception, going beyond the bio- in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. of Walter Pater, William Morris, Margaret graphical into a real critical analysis. Not all Lembrecht gives readers an overview of the Oliphant, George Eliot, Algernon Charles the headnotes achieve this level, however. The field and has chosen to group the relevant Swinburne, John Ruskin, Théophile Gautier, headnote on Vernon Lee reproduces, without research by methodology, which is a sensible and Robert Buchanan – an approach that, remark, a disorientingly homophobic remark approach. She covers a lot of ground, show- I fear, will simply bewilder those students on her lesbianism, and the headnote on Lucas ing that while the last years have brought forth who come to the book trying to get a basic Malet ignores Patricia Lorimer Lundberg’s new scholarship on the history of German grounding in the field. Rather, I wish Spirit biography, which would have saved the writer academic publishing, there is still much work had used this space to give readers a basic from erroneously calling two of her 1920s to be done. history, moving from Pre-Raphaelites and novels best-sellers. The final section includes two reviews of Arts and Crafts in the 1870s–1880s through Moreover, certain formatting decisions individual books – Pia Holenstein Weidmann aestheticism in the 1880s–1890s to deca- simply seem baffling. The editors have listed on Jonathan Green’s Printing and Prophecy and dence in the 1890s–1900s, explaining who writers according to their pseudonyms, re- Malcolm Walsby on Jeffrey Freedman’s Books the major figures in each period were, why gardless of how the writers were generally Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe – and the movement altered, what was going on known. Why publish Meynell’s work under the volume concludes with an extensive in the literary and cultural world at the time, A. C. Thompson, when virtually everything review essay by Günther Fetzer, covering and what kinds of material culture, political she wrote was published under the name Alice https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss2/1 12 et al.: Volume 23, Number 2 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 2 Spring 2014 d 13
Meynell? Why list Ella D’Arcy as Gilbert H. value and ritual significance of books across book as a multivalent signifier of authority, Page, a pseudonym that nobody knows, but diverse historical eras and cultures. This fas- tradition, ritual, and teaching, regardless of that she apparently used once for a single cinating and useful collection grew out of a its textual content, place of origin, or com- story in 1891? Was this a Pickering & Chatto series of three symposia held at Syracuse Uni- munity of users. house rule? Was the same rule responsible versity (2007 and 2010) and Hamilton College The third section considers the ways for the practice of referring to every con- (2009) dedicated to exploring the extensive that the physical qualities and methods of temporary critic cited by first initial and last religious, socio-cultural, economic, commer- manufacture, sale, and distribution of books name, regardless of the name under which cial, political, and intellectual implications of all directly impact their iconic meaning. the person actually published? In a book studying the “iconicity” of texts. The volume’s Whether examining the difference between like this, the reader will mainly be engaged contents were all previously published in manuscript or printed copies of the Qu’ran, in looking up writers. Thus anything that two issues of the journal Postscripts, but their the bespoke nature of different copies of makes it harder to find people is aggravatingly reissue in book form conveniently assembles the Wiccan Book of Shadows, or the social counterproductive. them all in one place in an attempt to facilitate meaning of duct-taped Bibles, these essays However, the most profound problem cooperative and comparative readings and all articulate how the book’s materiality influ- with The Women Aesthetes is that every primary reach a wider audience. ences and mediates our understanding of its text in this set is disfigured by a sprinkling of Watts deliberately avoids organizing the ritual significance. random slashes. The slashes occur in poems essays by historical period or culture, instead The essays in section four discuss what and in prose, in the middle of sentences, arranging them according to five broad Joanne Punzo Waghorne calls “the ultimate at the end of lines. Did nobody copyedit themes that encourage readers to recognize iconicity” (283) or, those books that do not this book? The slashes render the excerpts how the iconic power and ritual uses of books just symbolize religious ideas or ideals but in- unusable. They are utterly distracting and, – despite fine differences in time, place, and stead actually make them materially manifest. especially in the case of poetry, misleading, as philosophy – nevertheless speak to each other This ultimate iconicity sees books become they seem to indicate line breaks. The slashes across temporal, geographical, and cultural the embodiment of divine power – as il- obviously make it impossible to distribute boundaries. The essays in the first section lustrated through British folk belief in the copies of the readings in a classroom and set the stage by modelling how iconic books Bible’s ability to ward off sickness, or Korean would certainly make anyone hesitate before can be identified and categorized. Watts kicks Buddhists’ possession of scriptural extracts using it for scholarship. All the editors’ work things off with a useful examination of the as a means of appropriating the power of to procure first editions of these rare texts in three-dimensional nature of “scripture” by sutras – or take on the personification of premier libraries has therefore been rendered defining its “semantic,” “performative,” and divinity itself, such as the Sikh Guru Granth pointless. “iconic” ritual connotations. Iconic texts Sahib or the Hindu holy text, the Gita, as a I am very saddened that good scholars are meaningful not solely, or even primarily, manifestation of Krishna during the ritual- spent so much time and effort on a project on account of their content, he argues, but ized celebration of the Gita’s birth. that evidently had no oversight, no cop- because they are distinct symbols of power The final section examines the larger is- yediting, and no proofreading. It is simply and cultural and political consequence that sues of establishing the canonicity of iconic mindboggling that Pickering & Chatto would can be used actively and ritually to manipulate texts. Wampum, fourth-century Gospel charge £275 / US $495 for a set whose both public and private belief and behavior. books, Jacques Derrida, and the notion of primary texts have been irretrievably com- William A. Graham’s essay extends this ex- “scholarly expertise” all coalesce here to promised, particularly in an era when free ploration further by analyzing the division show how public and private, individual online scans of these texts are increasingly and differences between texts deemed either and collective, and religious and political available. If Pickering & Chatto continue to “cultural” or “religious” classics, while Dei- approaches work together to shape our un- put out volumes like this, they will not survive dre C. Stam’s piece offers a more granular derstanding of the iconic and ritual power the digital revolution. approach toward considering iconic texts by and utility of books. Talia Schaffer discussing the historical development of the Although incredibly varied in scope and Queens College, CUNY systematic specialized terminology created content, together the 22 essays in this volume c and used by dealers, readers, librarians, and creatively and effectively draw together dif- scholars to attempt to define the qualities that ferent historical epochs, varied religious and James W. Watts, ed. Iconic Books and Texts. Shef- make a book “iconic.” Together these three cultural traditions and ritual practices, and field and Bristol, UK: Equinox Publishing, essays introduce the dynamic multiplicity of diverse scholarly methodologies to create a Ltd., 2013. vi, 436p. ISBN 9781845539856. ways that readers activate and ritualize the finely woven tapestry depicting the enduring, £60 / US $99.95. texts they read and provide a solid foundation transcultural, and mutually supportive signifi- upon which the volume’s other studies can be cances of iconic books and texts. In addition Despite the marked increase of interdisci- built and contextualized. to giving these previously published essays a plinary study into the history and materiality Section two focuses on the intersection wider audience, this collection will help foster of the book over the past few decades, the 22 between image and text, with particular em- meaningful cross-disciplinary conversation essays in this hefty volume, as its editor, James phasis on how a book’s outward material form between readers interested in all aspects of W. Watts, explains in his introduction, focus and inner textual and illustrative layout can the history of the book. on a topic that has so far received surprisingly operate as a visual “portable locus” of power Eric J. Johnson little formal attention: namely, the talismanic (Parmenter, 66) that defines the image of the Ohio State University, Columbus
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where she was barred from attending classes necessarily had to be imposed on the time Exhibition Reviews Cont. as a woman. Sophie Kowalevski (1850–1891) period and scope of the subject matter. Dif- eloped as part of grand plan to defy her father ferent criteria were also adopted for pre- and and enroll in mathematics at university, only post-nineteenth century offerings in order to discover that most universities would not to capture a larger selection of women who Extraordinary Women in Science accept her. She would eventually become the contributed to the scientific discourse in & Medicine: first female PhD in mathematics in Europe, the earlier centuries, while offering a tighter Four Centuries of Achievement producing a theory of partial differential focus on those women who made important The Grolier Club, New York City equations largely through private tutorials. breakthroughs in knowledge in the twentieth 18 September – 23 November 2013 In the early twentieth century, not much had century. The split around the nineteenth changed for most women seeking higher century mark reinforces the idea that women As Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie writes in her education. Helen Taussig’s (1898–1986) have always been involved in the pursuit of introductory essay to the print catalogue contributions to pediatric cardiology would knowledge, but it also effectively disguises for The Grolier Club’s recent exhibition never have happened if a supervisor had not the fact that women are increasingly more Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine, been willing to oversee her training at Boston involved. As gender parity has nearly been women have encountered strong opposition University, leading to a degree at Johns Hop- reached in university enrollment in the to participation in the sciences throughout kins after Harvard Medical School would not physical sciences and medicine today, it is history. Their accomplishments have not permit her to matriculate. A returned copy of all the more important to acknowledge that been well documented outside of the highly the form letter she sent home with patients’ the contributions of women are growing specific disciplines in which they worked – if families following her pioneering “blue baby” exponentially. Exhibitions that highlight the they were documented at all – resulting in operation reveals her impact on so many lives work of women alone will hopefully not be a supposed “lost” history of female scien- with a simple phrase: “she scampers to and needed in the future. tific achievement. Marie Curie (1867–1934) fro like any normal child.” Elizabeth Knazook stands alone as one of the few names that Taussig’s form letter is only one example Queens University, Kingston many people are able to recall when asked of several unique artifacts that have been gathered for display alongside the many PhD to identify a female scientist, probably due c to the rare recognition she received from theses and scientific journals, revealing how winning the Nobel Prize in both physics these women felt about their place in the and chemistry. If the goal of this exhibition world. An enlargement of Hertha Ayerton’s La piel del libro. were merely to facilitate a greater awareness (1824–1923) angry scrawling across a census sheet – “How can I answer all these questions if I Encuadernaciones históricas en of the number and variety of women who la Biblioteca Lafragua participated in scientific activities over the last have not the intelligence to vote between two candidates four centuries, it would clearly be fulfilling a for parliament?” ‑ reveal that not only was she [The Skin of the Book. need. However, as the title of the exhibition a woman of great intellectual capacity, but a Historical Bindings in the states, this is not simply a list of names. We powerfully opinionated one too. Ayerton was not content to be ignored simply because of Biblioteca Lafragua] are being offered a glimpse into the lives of Biblioteca Histórica “José María Lafragua,” “extraordinary women” who overcame greater gender, and she successfully lobbied for the right to present her own papers on electrical Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de obstacles to participation in the sciences than Puebla, Puebla, Mexico their male counterparts. Restricted by a lack engineering at the Royal Society of London 12 August – 10 October 2013 of education, barred from membership in sci- despite being denied membership. Ayerton entific societies, and offered few professional would likely have found an ally in Chien- The title of the exhibition La piel del libro outlets to share their work, these women not Shiung Wu (1912–1997) had the two existed alludes to the outer covering of a book as only contributed significant knowledge to in the same century, although while Ayerton its “skin.” Martha Romero, curator of the the fields of chemistry, physics, mathematics, was active in the suffragette movement, Wu exhibition, selected eighty-six books from astronomy, computing, and medicine, they did did not necessarily consider herself a feminist. the sixteenth century to the present to show so in spite of tremendous discrimination. A transcript of a speech she gave hangs in her features representative of the types of bind- Many of the women in this exhibition display case, describing the new paradigm by ings, both Mexican and European, that can would need to overcome severe disadvan- which she hoped twenty-first-century women be found in Mexican historic collections. tages in their early education to obtain some would be judged: contributions to science will The exhibition focuses on bindings used for level of influence in their field. Marie-Sophie be measured as the achievements of scientists, everyday books, without considering either Germain’s (1776–1831) theory describing the not as the triumphs of women. the books’ textual content or their beauty, vibration characteristics of elastic surfaces has The new female pantheon of scientific though the books on view make it possible to implications today in fields such as structural endeavor put forward by the Grolier Club follow the changes in both the material and engineering and electrical device manufactur- covers the achievements of women in the the decorative practices used in book binding. ing, but her work would not have been possi- seventeenth century through to the twentieth. As the books are exhibited in a chronological ble if she had not arranged for a male student It is a narrow slice of what must comprise a sequence, it is also possible to follow the his- to smuggle her notes from mathematical wider pool of candidates in other centuries tory of the book trade, the book market, and lectures at the École Polytechnique in France, and other scientific subjects, but parameters https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss2/1 14 et al.: Volume 23, Number 2 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 2 Spring 2014 d 15
book production in Mexico, since the books The next case features examples of Mexi- beauty… Poe is great because he is independ- shown in the first cases are mainly European, co’s golden age of bookbinding in the nine- ent of cheap attractions, independent of sex, while in the last cases mainly Mexican books teenth century that demonstrate the diversity of patriotism, of fighting, of sentimentality, are exhibited. of materials. Mexico 100 años de independencia, snobbery, glutton, and the rest of the vulgar In the first case, a number of examples for example, is bound in boards, covered in stock-trade of his profession…. In him show the possible variations of European percalina, a Mexican binding cloth made of American literature is anchored, in him alone, limp parchment bindings, either with or with cotton covered with a thick layer of paste, and on solid ground.” Or listen to Arthur Conan no decoration. In this group of books, there is given a leather spine, in the traditional binding Doyle, who based his Sherlock Holmes char- one with its title written in manuscript along style of early-nineteenth-century Mexico. acter on Poe’s Arsène Dupin: “Where was the spine from head to tail, a common prac- The final part of the show’s chronological the detective story until Poe breathed the tice in Mexico during the Colonial times. The display includes books produced during the breath in it?” Alfred Hitchcock mentioned in case also includes some samples of books twentieth and twenty-first centuries, mainly 1960 that: “It’s because I liked Edgar Allan bound in boards, made of either bare wood or in Mexico, but also of foreign origin. These Poe’s stories so much that I began to make board covered with leather and blind-tooled, examples show how paperback bindings are suspense films.” If we take such comments decorated with small tools and rolls. preferred over those bound in boards. Various to heart, we wonder why we have relegated There is a selection of four seventeenth- authors and artists of that period designed the this American master to cheap thrills, pulp century bindings shown in the second case. covers used to bind this type of books. As fiction, the French, and Vincent Price hor- Although limp parchment bindings were in an example, the work Forja Colonial de Puebla ror movies. Many Americans looked on Poe common use in Mexico and abroad until the is exhibited. In this section are also included as did Nabokov, who “claimed to overcome end of the eighteenth century, the use of examples of the traditional style of Mexican his adolescent delight in Poe.” But have we boards in this type of binding was introduced artisanal bindings that are fully covered in perhaps always secretly admired the genius in Mexico in the seventeenth century. In this kerato, which replaced the percalina used before. of Poe’s themes and prose, as well as his liter- case, parchment bindings both with and This material is also incorporated into half ary skills? Yes, most of us have continued to without boards are shown together. Changes leather bindings, and used to cover boards. read Poe, if only in a solitary room, with dim in the direction in which the title is written In both cases the titles are gold-tooled on light, but still with delight. Nabokov himself on the binding can be seen in one of these the spine. most likely, as the exhibit proposes, has al- samples, which has the title written from Finally, there is one case, placed outside lusions to Annabel Lee in Lolita, and adopts left to right across the width of the spine, of the chronological order of display, which the theme of the doppelgänger in Pale Fire from a consequence of storing books vertically, a shows three examples of historic Mexican Poe’s influential semi-autobiographical short practice that was well established in Mexico archival bindings. It is possible to see that story “William Wilson” (1839–40). during this period. either parchment or leather could be used The great French poets, such as Mal- In this small group of four books, there for this type of binding, which has a front larmé, Baudelaire, and Valéry, to mention are two bound in boards and covered with lap folded over the front board, following a triadic poetic pantheon, took Poe as a leather, one of which has the title gold-tooled European styles. great inspiration, whereas Americans were over a red leather label on the spine, while the The exhibition allows the audience to easily avoiding or denying his influence on their other one was decorated with a centrepiece, follow a quick history of bookbinding through work. Only another outlier, Walt Whitman, gold-tooled with a single oval tool. Appar- the bindings of the books shown. La piel del attended his re-burial and memorial service ently, gold tooling was introduced in Mexico libro is also a good sample of the diversity of in Baltimore in 1875. The Morgan Library, during this period, and the comparison of materials and bookbinding techniques that can in conjunction with the Berg Collection of techniques used on leather covers can be eas- be frequently found in a Mexican library with the New York Public Library, and great Poe ily made between the two sets of examples a historic collection. collector Susan Jaffe Tane have combined shown in each case. Marina Garone Gravier their collections to resurrect the memory, In the next two cases we see a number of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, greatness, and influence of this tormented variations of eighteenth-century bindings, Mexico City genius in an extraordinary exhibit that lays mainly Mexican but with some European the claim to Poe’s mastery and lasting influ- ones also included. We can see the use of half c ence on literature and the arts. In slightly over bindings, either in paper or parchment with one hundred manuscripts, books, drawings, decorated paper covering the boards. Full photographs and other material, we follow leather bindings, with leather dyed in different Edgar Allan Poe: Poe from his early poetic works through his colours and styles, such as piel de Valencia and Terror of the Soul major contemporary influence as a literary piel española, with gold-tooled decoration on The Morgan Library & Museum, New York critic, to his horror tales, and finally his influ- the spines, are also on display. Among these City ence on other artists. books, there is the interesting example of a 4 October 2013 – 26 January 2014 To take only a few examples of treasures European book, printed in Spain and bound displayed, we see the only surviving auto- in limp, plain-paper binding, a practice that No less an acerbic critic than George Ber- graph manuscript containing any surviving was not common then in Mexico. This might nard Shaw enthused of Edgar Allan Poe that part of “The Raven.” Of course, when we suggest that the book arrived in colonial he “constantly and inevitably produces magic think of “The Raven” we think of the word Mexico already bound. where his great contemporaries produced only “nevermore.” Poe was fond of the terms ... / 16
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... / 15 “nothing more,” and “no more,” the pred- Tea and Morphine: Women in and life on the Parisian streets, the more ecessor to “nevermore.” But did Poe get his Paris, 1880–1914 quotidian images connected to that opposite inspiration from Pope’s first “Pastoral”: “And Armand Hammer Museum of Art and nerve-soother, tea, understandably lack the vanquish’d nature seems to charm no more”? power of shock. Here we have the idealized Culture Center, Los Angeles We think so. All authors have influences and beauty with her combination of seduction 25 January – 18 May 2014 we see that Poe’s early Shakespearean sonnet and innocence (Paul Berthon’s poster for the “To Zante” was inspired and even based on 17th Salon de Cent exhibition of 1897), or Felix This exhibition connects two seemingly a passage from Chateaubriand’s “Itinéraire de Valleton’s La Modiste (1894) in which women disparate “random nerve soothers,” as the Paris á Jérusalem.” His adolescent, Byron-in- are both consumers and purveyors of the brochure essay refers to the beverage and the spired first collection of poemsTamerlane and goods of capitalism. A particularly interesting narcotic, in an exhibition at UCLA’s Hammer Other Poems by a Bostonian (1827) is represented pairing shows Edgar Degas’s etching of the Museum. As it turns out, the two are in fact in three copies (of only twelve known), as well expatriate artist Mary Cassatt on a visit to the intimately connected. Victoria Dailey, one of as an autographed manuscript. Louvre next to a modest image by Cassatt (the the exhibition’s curators and the brochure es- Poe’s literary criticism made him famous in only woman artist in the exhibition). Her Tea sayist (there is no catalogue) outlines the tan- his time and also caused grief for this troubled (ca. 1890) is a drypoint of a desultory young gled history: Britain’s fanaticism for tea in the soul; consider his accusation of plagiarism woman resting on a divan with a palm-leaf nineteenth century caused such a huge trade against Longfellow. We see an autographed fan in her hand and her tea service at the deficit with China that Britain had to find a manuscript of his 1846 “Rationale for Verse,” ready, looking past the viewer with a gaze that way to even the playing field. What it came where he proposed a theory of poetics based could be as numbing as those of the sedated up with was opium, grown in colonial India on natural law, which would “guide poets morphinomanes. and sold illegally to a burgeoning population through the technical challenges of compo- Overall, though, the depictions of the of Chinese addicts. Ultimately two wars were sition, chiefly scansion….” Whether he was culture of tea, with its suggestion of both the fought over the export, and China, overpow- serious in this endeavor or not, his poetry social woman moving into the public arena ered by the huge might of Britain and its allies, greatly influenced the best of the French (Cassatt at the Louvre, women patronizing Le capitulated, going so far as to legalize the drug poets of the day, who in turn influenced Divan Japonais) and the private woman, the an- and itself become a principal producer of such notable American poets as T.S. Eliot, gel of the house, in her domestic quarters (in opium (and its derivative morphine) for ex- Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William the bath, with her children) perhaps inevitably port. The resulting morphine craze attracted Carlos Williams. And the best-known Beat seem thin and scattered. The two images of mostly women, many in London, but the poet, Allen Ginsberg of “Howl” fame, wrote: women in domestic servant roles (the cook drug had a much stronger impact in Paris. In “everything [in American literature] leads and the laundress) seem particularly isolated, both places the drug crossed class boundaries, back to Poe.” Not so secret delight? as do the couple of prints having to do with luring the wealthy and the destitute into the The exhibit has a rich selection, both women connected with the war effort. These orbit of the morphinomanes. in manuscript and print, of Poe’s popular images and others are placed in the final room The typography of the exhibition’s title Gothic tales and detective stories. Poe’s Dupin of the exhibition, a space where the theme privileges the drug ‑ Tea and MORPHINE is probably based on Voltaire’s Zadig (1747), drifts to some inconclusive and ultimately ‑ as does Dailey’s learned essay. This empha- and then by “transmission” to Arthur Conan unsatisfying end. It is in this room that the sis is understandable; not only is the use of Doyle, who modeled Sherlock on Dupin. viewer can grasp the difficulty of the curators morphine far less understood than the mania Borges, in a lecture in 1978, stated that “to in identifying enough material in the collec- for tea, its connection to women is barely speak of the detective story is to speak of tion to support the promise of the seductive registered. The exhibition’s curators (Dailey Edgar Allan Poe.” Interspersed with the title. (Sandwiched among these prints which and Cynthia Burlington, director of the Grun- literary items are visuals, such as the “Ultima already have only the most tenuous connec- wald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA) Thul” daguerreotype of Poe, Manet’s illus- tion to the theme is, inexplicably (the label is deserve great credit for conceptualizing such tration of Stéphane Mallarmé’s translation silent on the intention), Alfred M ller’s proof a provocative and intriguing theme. Among ü of “The Raven,” Mallarmé’s limited edition of his print, Dante au lys (1897–98).) the morphine prints there is the wild-haired, of his collected Poésies, with the poem, “Le What is exciting about this collection clenched-teeth image of a desperate woman Tombeau d’Edgar Poe,” and Baudelaire’s of prints is its focus on the themes and injecting herself from a small vial in Eugene translation of Histoire Extraordinaires, with techniques of printmaking in the fin-de-siècle. Grasset’s raw Morphinomane. Two other prints the French poet’s manuscript inscription and Many of the prints demonstrate the impact that capture the tension between the cruelty annotation. of the Symbolist literary movement on the of the addiction and the “exquisite languor” Appropriately for the author of “The visual artists of the time period. We can trace sought by the morphinomanes are Georges de Masque of the Red Death,” the exhibition the powerful influence of Japonisme on the Feure’s La Source du mal (1894) and Victor rooms are painted in blood red. Everybody color palettes and perspective viewpoints of Emile Prové’s L’Opium; in these, nude women interested in American and French literature many artists of the time. Cheret and Grasset are captured in either agony (de Feure) or should take yet again a closer look at Edgar are well represented here, as are important ecstasy (Prové) amid art-nouveau poppies. Poe. artists whose work is somewhat lesser known In contrast to these and other potent im- Larry E. Sullivan (Numa, Laurent Tailhade). ages of women struggling with addiction, City University of New York The exhibition is the first of what could be prostitution, impoverished or dying children, several to come that highlights the promised https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss2/1 16 et al.: Volume 23, Number 2 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 2 Spring 2014 d 17
gift of some nine hundred prints, all revolving in a national or linguistic community with no transnational, and multi-media explorations around Parisian daily life from 1880–1914, word for middlebrow? (Diana Holmes, art of European middlebrow in the future. from the collector Elisabeth Dean. While historian from the University of Leeds, ar- The blog for the European Middlebrow the demands of the theme might have been gued that French has no equivalent word, but project is at
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... / 17 formación de redes intelectuales a partir de cultura impresa argentina de los siglos XIX cals edited by Rubén Darío that were broadly las relaciones entre publicaciones argentinas y y XX, en torno a la incidencia de los cambios diffused in Latin-America); the commonali- extranjeras (entre ellos: los vínculos entre la re- materiales y tecnológicos, la conformación ties and differences between intellectuals and vista Archivos de psiquiatría y criminología dirigida de redes intelectuales y su contribución en cultural managers such as Samuel Glusberg, por José Ingenieros y las revistas francesas so- la creación de nuevos modos de lectura y Waldo Frank, and Victoria Ocampo (who bre criminalística; entre la Revue Sud-Americaine escritura en Argentina. later inspired the establishment of the journal publicada por Leopoldo Lugones en París y La versión final de los trabajos se publi- Sur); the commonalities and differences be- las revistas que se publicaban en Francia en la cará en 2014 en un libro de acceso abierto, tween Spanish and French surrealist journals; misma época; entre éstas y las publicaciones con ISBN y propiedad intelectual registrada, the Latino-Americanization of the cultural periódicas dirigidas por Rubén Darío, amplia- en la web de la Facultad de Humanidades y journal Los Libros; and the links between La mente difundidas en América Latina; así como Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Gaceta Literaria and contemporary journals of los acercamientos y disidencias entre intelectu- Nacional de La Plata. Chile and Uruguay. Several questions were ales y gestores culturales como Samuel Glus- Geraldine Rogers posed regarding methodology, researchers’ berg, Waldo Frank y Victoria Ocampo, que UNLP-CONICET accessibility to periodicals, and the creation of tiempo después inspiraría el surgimiento de la archives in libraries and newspaper repositor- revista Sur; en las similitudes y diferencias que ies, as well as the creation of archival digital las revistas surrealistas de lengua hispánica c repositories. establecieron con el movimiento francés; en Some projects to digitize and edit periodi- la latinoamericanización de la revista cultural cals, such as the Centro de Documentación e Los Libros, y en los vínculos que estableció La Twenty-three presenters and about fifty Investigación de Culturas de Izquierda (CeD- Gaceta Literaria con revistas contemporáneas attendants participated in the First Symposium INCI), the Biblioteca Orbis Tertius and the de Chile y Uruguay). Se plantearon cuestiones on Argentinian Periodicals held 5‑6 December project of the University of Ausburg (Ger- referidas a aspectos metodológicos y a la ac- 2013 in the Joaquín V. González Room of the many) to create a database of Latin-American cesibilidad de los investigadores a este tipo Chancellors Office of the National University periodicals, sent directors and partners to de documentos, la conformación de archivos of La Plata (Argentina). the event. en bibliotecas y hemerotecas así como la In this symposium, specialists discussed The attendants included many specialists creación y difusión de repositorios digitales with great profit research progress and results on the topics, especially librarians and news- de fondos archivísticos. in different disciplines: the history of ideas paper archivist personnel from the National El evento contó con algunos de los di- and intellectual, literary, and art history. Library of Argentina and the Public Library rectores y colaboradores de proyectos que Presentations dealt with different forms of the National University of La Plata, who incluyen digitalización o ediciones digitales of periodicals, including both popular or were especially interested in knowing how de publicaciones periódicas, como el Centro mass publications (brochures, newspapers researchers use archival materials. de Documentación e Investigación de Cultu- and literary and cultural supplements) and Highlighted in the debate was the recently ras de Izquierda (CeDINCI) y la Biblioteca more restricted ones (literary, artistic and endorsed Argentinian Law number 26,899 on Orbis Tertius, además de un plan de trabajo cultural journals). Several papers focused on public digital repositories which allow open en la Universidad de Ausburg (Alemania), incidences of technological advances in im- and free access to the academic bibliographi- vinculado con la conformación de una base age reproduction and diffusion, studying the cal materials of national research projects de datos de publicaciones periódicas latinoa- role of lithography, xylography, engraving, regarding periodicals. mericanas. El coloquio contó también con intaglio, color images, and photography in the The symposium opened a new and prom- la asistencia de público especializado en el appearance of texts and reading habits. ising interdisciplinary space for academic tema: en particular, bibliotecarios y personal Other papers dealt with the role of pe- reflection on a relevant portion of nineteenth- de la hemerotecas (de la Biblioteca Nacional riodicals as a resource ‑ mainly in the first and twentieth-century Argentinian printed de la República Argentina y de la Biblioteca years of the twentieth century ‑ not only for culture, on periodicals’ incidence in material Pública de la Universidad Nacional de La a broader democratization of reading but and technological changes, on the creation Plata), quienes se mostraron interesados also for the access to writing by a new lower of intellectual networks, and on periodicals’ en conocer los modos en que los investiga- class of readers. Periodicals as a vehicle for contributions to the creation of new forms dores abordan el material archivístico con intellectual influence on national and inter- of reading and writing in Argentina. el fin de colaborar mejor en sus búsquedas. national politics was another topic of study. The proceedings will be published in 2014 En el debate cobró notabilidad la reciente The role of intellectual networks, specifically on the website of the Faculty of Humanities sanción de la Ley argentina número 26.899 the relations between Argentinian and foreign and Educational Sciences of the National de Repositorios digitales institucionales de publications, was also discussed (for example, University of La Plata in a copyrighted open acceso abierto y gratuito a los materiales the links between the journal Archivos de psiq- access volume with an ISBN. bibliográficos académicos pertenecientes a uiatría y criminología edited by José Ingenieros investigaciones nacionales, que concierne a and French criminology journals, between translated by Benito Rial Costas estas cuestiones. Revue Sud-Americaine published by Leopoldo Universidad Complutense de Madrid El encuentro abrió un nuevo y promet- Lugones in Paris and the contemporary jour- edor espacio interdisciplinario de reflexión nals published in France, and between the académica sobre una parte relevante de la journals published in France and the periodi- https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss2/1 18 et al.: Volume 23, Number 2 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 2 Spring 2014 d 19
and Peru. The project features travelling Scholarship Report scanning equipment, reminiscent perhaps of The SHARP End the illegal playing-card presses that travelled along the Caribbean coast in the seventeenth century. Instead of producing pornographic The SHARP-California Rare Book School images and Lutheran texts, however, these Moving On scholarship was awarded in 2013 to two stu- scanners are used by small libraries and ar- dents: Hannah Alpert-Abrams, a PhD student chives to produce digital facsimiles of early Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2003. It in comparative literature at the University of books. The digitization project makes it pos- seems only yesterday, but how much copy Texas at Austin, and Madison Bush, a senior sible, for example, to read the four extant has flowed from SHARPists’ pens during history major at Princeton University. Both copies of the Speculum Conjugiorum (printed that time! Over a decade later, I can say the students attended the course “History of the by Juan Pablos, 1556) side-by-side. Like Juan publication is still in good heart and remains Book in Hispanic America,” taught by Daniel Pablos’ press, these digitization efforts are a wonderful flagship for our organisation. Slive and David Szewczyk. Starting with Juan changing the way we disseminate, curate, and SHARP News would never have matured Pablos’ printing press (established in Mexico access America’s literary past. without the countless, volunteer hours from City c. 1539), the course traces print culture in Madison attended the California Rare our various book review, exhibition, and the Spanish colonies across the continent and Book School with the hopes of continuing her e-resources editors as well as our doughty through the centuries, considering content, independent research and developing a senior bibliographers, youthful publishing assistants, methods, innovations, and aesthetics through thesis topic. In the spring of 2013, Madison keen typesetters and perceptive proofreaders: the long nineteenth century. In addition to wrote an independent research paper on the I thank you all most warmly, most sincerely. lectures, the class visited the archives at the first printing press in Mexico, focusing on the But, it’s time to move on, grow into my Huntington Library, the Getty Research In- oldest extant book printed in the Americas, new role as SHARP Vice-President, adjust stitute, and UCLA Special Collections. The Fray Juan de Zumárraga’s Doctrina Breve. While to being a ‘Reader in Book History’ at my class also had the opportunity to examine Princeton’s William H. Scheide collection institution, nurture a digital humanities in- selections from David Szewczyk’s personal contains a copy of the book, not many people terface with SHARP, and help support the collection brought from the Philadelphia Rare get to see two copies of this very rare piece good work we all undertake to bring book Books and Manuscripts Company. of American history. Seeing another copy of history onto the global stage. A favorite document for Hannah was the the Doctrina Breve at the Huntington Library To this end, we are calling for a new SHARP first Spanish edition of William H. Prescott’s was incredible. The best part of the experi- News editor to assume the reins of office, and History of the Conquest of Mexico, fully illus- ence, however, was learning about early print support the transition of our publication into trated, from the Getty archives. Her research culture in Spanish America from two experts a new, online, interactive, Web 3.0 form. If involves the translation and publication of in the field. David and Dan were wonderful you’re keen to help shepherd our flock into contemporary popular fiction across the US/ instructors with seemingly endless willingness the digital age, please don’t hesitate to con- Mexico border, with a particular emphasis to answer questions. Madison left the Califor- tact me at
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