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of Shakespeare’s work, largely through Aldo Manuzio. Il rinascimento di Exhibition Reviews showing popular examples of modern Venezia renditions (both reinterpretations and [Aldo Manuzio. The Renais- First Folio! The Book that Gave faithful recreations). There is a sixth panel, which includes the logos of the exhibition sance of Venice] us Shakespeare sponsors, but with limited space in the Venezia, Galleria dell’Accademia Location: nationwide exhibit I felt this space could be better 19 March–31 July 2016 6 January 2016–8 January 2017 used if shared with some additional text. In addition to the folio exhibition, host Curated by Lodovico Beltramini, First Folio! The Book that Gave us organizations coordinate programming and Davide Gasparotto, and Giulio Manieri Shakespeare is a small traveling exhibition ancillary exhibitions to highlight different Elia, the exhibition centers on the publisher that is making its way around the United aspects of Shakespeare’s legacy that are Aldo Manuzio not simply by showcasing the States as a part of the global celebration of beyond the scope of the exhibition itself. innovations in his trade that transformed th the 400 anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. For example, in Emory’s Rose library, print culture. The history of his editions The exhibition was created by the Folger adjacent to the Carlos Museum where the is placed in the context of Renaissance Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., exhibition is housed, there is an exhibition scholarly culture and visuality, with a keen and will conclude in Nashville on 8 January. of modern artists’ books that respond attention to the social status of the book This review is of the showing at the Michael to or convey Shakespeare’s writing, among his sophisticated first readers (often Carlos Museum at Emory University in curated by Kate Doubler. This builds depicted in paintings by Titian and Lotto Atlanta, Georgia. The exhibition was free to upon the exhibition’s central premise that while holding one of the Aldine editions in visit, and was housed in a small room off the Shakespeare’s work is timeless by offering their hands). An equally important attention main gallery spaces. The Carlos Museum’s examples of how artists still engage with is given throughout the exhibition to the the staff were incredibly friendly and welcoming, it today. In addition to complementary transmedial impact of Manuzio’s activities guiding me to the space and making exhibitions, host organizations offer in the construction of a specifically – and themselves available to answer any questions. an array of programming that speaks somehow abstract – Venetian Renaissance. The exhibition consists of five panels to specialist and generalist audiences. An intellectual on the move, Aldo and two cases: one case housing the first I would recommend the exhibition Manuzio, born near Rome, reached Venice folio, and the other housing the second for general audiences, including students, after having studied Greek in Ferrara and through fourth folios, each open to a particularly those with limited exposure after having taught at the courts of Carpi different section that highlights a different to Shakespeare. During my time in the and Mirandola. It was in response to a aspect of the text. The first folio was open exhibition, I read the panels alongside a pedagogic need that he issued his first to Hamlet’s famous “To be or not to be” couple who had never seen the folios and edition displayed in the exhibition, a Greek speech, and the teacher in me was pleased to who were eager to know more about an grammar, in a city that had expanded see that the label copy pointed to the location author whose name they knew but whose its trading activities – and its lasting of the text within a copy where those familiar legacy they were only vaguely familiar with. philological interests – in conjunction with lines would have been read by someone It was refreshing to attend the exhibition a territorial presence in the Eastern part of who had been alive during the time of as a scholar and vicariously experience the Mediterranean, reduced in its scope by Shakespeare. This is one of many examples the joy that comes with experiencing the the Turkish expansion. The engagement of the exhibition’s central premise, urging power of rare books for the first time. and rivalry of Venice with the Eastern visitors to not only think about Shakespeare as a historical writer but also as the writer Julia Skinner Contents of plays that are still alive with us today. Rare Books Curator, Kennesaw State University The panels offer a very broad overview of the publishing history of the folios, c Exhibition Reviews 1 and articulate their value to the modern Book Reviews 5 world by showing what plays would have E-Resource Reviews 27 been lost without this compilation. The Bibliography 29 panels try to appeal to a general audience by highlighting the continued importance 2 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 3

Mediterranean is crucial to its history and incurred with Dante, Manuzio’s own edition and Sophie Milluns in Specialist Markets by “‘Rueful Lamentation’ on the death of his own work of utopian socialism, News SHARP News its symbolic productions: the legend of the of the Florentine poet was not the first of in the Early Modern Book World), or the Queen Elizabeth,” More’s 1503 eulogy and from Nowhere (1890). Both books are city patron saint Mark narrates that, on his the series, but came soon after the one of the acknowledgement, if only in passing, of first English poem, and More’s “Verses for printed by Kelmscott Press with medieval way to Alexandria in Egypt from Aquileia, more canonical figure of Petrarch. the parallel development since the 1490s the coronation of Henry VIII,” a suite of appearance and delightful ornamented editor Mark had been hosted one night in one of These slender books printed in a of the printing press in centers such as the Latin poems he wrote in 1509 to expresses borders. However, the true centerpiece Padmini Ray Murray the isles of the archipelago in a fishermen’s beautiful typeset became the preferred Venetian colony of Ragusa/Dubrovnik but hope that King Henry VIII might usher in of this case is Gilbert Burnet’s 1684 Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology hut, where he dreamt of the future glory of editions for the private reading habits of a also, to remain in the Mediterranean basin, a new age of religious devotion, peace, and edition of Utopia. Translated to English [email protected] the city. His corpse was believed to have whole class of “diplomats, businessmen and in Salonica, Cairo (the Egypt of St. Mark’s patronage to humanist learning. While the from the Latin original, Burnet’s edition Editorial Assistant been surreptitiously brought back from military commanders” – as stated by the legend), Fez, and Montenegro. exhibit explains that More joined the King’s is unassuming with its simple title page Shalmi Barman Alexandria of Egypt by two sailors from curators in their narrative – but provided Council in 1517 and was later appointed to and restrained ornamentation. While the Jadavpur University the same Venetian archipelago. Manuzio’s also a repertoire of images and literary Alberto Gabriele Lord Chancellor in 1529, non-specialists exhibition might have included more detail logo – a dolphin around an anchor, coming references that migrated to other artistic New York University likely pause when they learn that More about Burnet’s history of voicing political Review Editors from an ancient coin donated to him by the forms and ended up adorning the interiors was executed for treason in 1539 when the criticism, this edition arrived at a time when Christina Ionescu, Books – Europe humanist Pietro Bembo – was itself a symbol of Venetian homes. The harmony and devout Catholic declined to acknowledge England was working to reconcile recent Mount Allison University, Canada of the intertwined project of cultivating clarity of Manuzio’s characters, as well as c Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church political struggles — not entirely unlike [email protected] ancient (often Christianized) virtues in a the rigorous structures of the page layout, of England and renounce papal authority. Ralph Robinson’s translation over century Clayton McCarl, Books – Latin America mercantile context. deriving partially from fifteenth century Visions of Utopia This first section places emphasis on the earlier. Moving swiftly through substantial University of North Florida, FL, USA Between 1495 and 1515 Manuzio manuscripts, speak of an ongoing reflection The British Library, London uneven relationship between intellectuals timespans, the exhibition effectively [email protected] contributed to a remediation of the culture on the theological dimension of geometry 31 May–18 September 2016 and the monarch who offered patronage. underscores the longevity and influence Jeffrey Makala, Books - North America of antiquity through the new medium of in the Christian-Classical allegiances of Where humanist scholars like More and of More’s ideas by weaving translation, University of South Carolina, SC, USA the printed book, but also through the the time, pioneered at the end of the so- Visions of Utopia celebrates the Erasmus gained personal and professional reproduction, and genre together from its Erin A. Smith, Books - North America th impact his editions had in other forms: called Middle Ages in the visionary lines 500 anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s advantage through their work at court, the inception to the late-nineteenth century. University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA Manuzio completed the publication of of Dante’s Paradiso. The curators track (1478-1535) work of fiction and political exhibit reminds onlookers that they served The fourth case brings together modern reviews_usa@sharpweborg Aristotle’s complete works, but inspired these interesting synergies to a memorable philosophy. In this small collection, viewers at the pleasure of the crown. interpretations of the Utopian novel. With a Susann Liebich, Books –Australasia/Pacific also contemporary artists with the indirect event: the lecture on Euclide’s Elements by have the opportunity to press beyond a The second case focuses on Utopia. A shift into the twentieth century, the exhibit University of Heidelberg, Germany recuperation they mediated of Greek the matemathecian-monk Luca Pacioli on glimpse at the famous book to consider the first edition printed in Leuven in 1516 is open transitions towards darker political fictions [email protected] painting through the descriptions of it in August 1508 at the church of St. Bartholomy genre this narrative about a fictive island to its iconic map of the fictive island. Three including Aldous Huxley’s Brave New Abhijit Gupta, Books – South Asia the work of Lucian, or, through the praise in Rialto, attended by Manuzio and many of inspired — the Utopian novel. Tucked translations (German 1524, Italian 1548, and World (1932) and George Orwell’s Nineteen- Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India of specific materials (like bronze) contained the figures highlighted in the exhibition. into the Sir John Ritblat Treasures at the French 1550) are grouped together to show Eighty-Four (1949). These authors expand [email protected] in the editions of Pliny – all represented in British Library, surrounded by some of Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Exhibitions The geopolitical priorities of the Venetian the slow pace at which More’s commentary on More’s subjects of political influence, the exhibition by exquisite pantings, prints, the world’s most important works of University College, London republic are present in the room that on political, religious, and social customs education, religion, and cultivating citizens, and other artifacts. Manuzio’s edition of literature, law, religion, and science, Visions [email protected] reconstructs the popularity of the pastoral spread throughout Europe. A careful eye will to include modern anxieties about identity Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the tale of a (from Teocritus and Virgil to Sannazaro) of Utopia successfully captures what the notice a reader’s annotations in the German loss, surveillance, and the destructive Molly Hardy, E-Resources dream that is an allegorical-oneiric quest not simply as a literary genre of humanist exhibition describes as the book’s “timeless edition using the Utopian alphabet — a powers of violence. The viewer can easily American Antiquarian Society, MA, USA of Medieval ascendency updated to the imitation but as a new site of scientific relevance.” thrill for the lover of marginalia. The first connect these enduring themes to our [email protected] contemporary cultural climate – the narrative observations – Giorgione’s La Tempesta is Greeted by an enlarged engraving of Sir English edition printed in London in 1551 present world and the ongoing struggle for Bibliographer offers inscriptions in the three languages placed in the same room – and of projected Thomas More in cap and fur-trimmed gown, by goldsmith Ralph Robinson, 16 years after social justice and better political institutions. Cecile M. Jagodzinski cultivated in the redefined curriculum of cultural expansion on the mainland on the spectators stand before the statesman, writer, More’s execution, brings attention back to The final item, a 2016 edition [email protected] the time, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew – is part of the Venetian Republic, with the plan and philosopher and bow their heads as they sixteenth-century life and politics. Dedicated of Utopia edited by Jeremy Deller and Fraser presented in a fascinating space created for the villa Giustinian at Roncade, designed peer down into the four glass cases filled to William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, this Muggeridge, returns focus to the longevity c for the exhibition, a narrow passageway by Manuzio’s collaborator Giovanni with 23 texts that comprise the exhibition. edition was printed after civil unrest from and spirit of More’s book. This edition is a through a wood-paneled corridor where The illuminated cases organize the display SHARP News [ISSN 1073-1725] is the quarterly Giocondo in a classical style. Manuzio’s pan- enclosure riots throughout England in 1549. particular curiosity as the editors translated single reproductions of its pages are pasted. to focus on the sixteenth-century world newsletter of the Society for the History of Author- European humanist community included The edition is paired with a letter from the the English text into the Utopian alphabet. The curators advance the hypothesis that from which More’s book emerged, Utopia’s ship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.. The Society takes the rising star of Earsmus, who spent almost printer to William Cecil dated sometime Made to celebrate the book’s quincentenary, the illustrations are by the Paduan publisher creation and early translations, followed by no responsibility for the views asserted in these one year at Manuzio’s home to complete after 1572. Ralph Robinson was living in it provokes thought about Utopia’s cultural and artist Benedetto Bordon and by the books it inspired. pages. Copyright of content rests with contribu- his Adagia published a year after Manuzio’s poverty and the letter asks Cecil for financial scope and how More’s work carries an anonymous Venetian artist-poet illuminator The first case explores life at English tors; design copyright rests with the Society. Set edition of Erasmus’s Latin translations of aid. The audience is again struck by this enduring influence beyond philosophy of Antonio Grifo’s Triumph of Venus, court in the sixteenth century beginning with in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Ecuba and Iphygenia in Aulide. theme of unequal relations between scholars and literature. The idea of Utopia and the both displayed in the adjoining cabinets. In mapping Aldo Manuzio’s cultural Desiderius Erasmus’s 1499 prefatory letter who spread humanistic thinking and the spirit for understanding the necessary The portable format of Manuzio's Aldine to Henry VIII, “Prosopopeia Britanniae.” SUBSCRIPTIONS: horizons against the backdrop of a specifically political elite on whom they depended for conditions to live a happy life captures the editions of Greek and Roman classics The document sets a tone of confidants and [email protected] Venetian history, a notable absence is an their livelihoods. imagination of artists, writers, and hopefully included also Italian vernacular works, attention to a more cosmopolitan and equally advisors being neither equals nor friends to The third case shifts focus onto the exhibition audience. COPY DEADLINES: thus completing the cultural program of entrepreneurial dimension of the book trade the Tudor monarch. The audience learns the influence of Utopian fiction asa As More’s Utopia gave way to novels 1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 December ennobling the vernacular language initiated in the period (the only other centers more that the lengthy poem was composed after literary genre. Examples include Francis about dystopic futures, the curators by Dante in his theoretic reflections on referred to being Rome and Florence), for Erasmus inadvertently arrived at court Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) and Margaret demonstrate how readers and writers have SHARP WEB: the status of the vernacular since the Vita instance the editions in other languages emptyhanded and the prince recommended Cavendish’s A New Blazing World (1666). made Utopia their own. The excellence http://sharpweb.org Nuova, and, more programmatically, in the published by Manuzio on commission, eg. that he should craft some prose to The viewer’s attention is no doubt drawn to in Visions of Utopia is how the exhibition De Vulgari Eloquentia. Despite the debt the South Slavic ones (see Richard Kirwan demonstrate his gratitude. This is followed William Morris’s 1893 edition of Utopia and quietly substitutes the common use of 4 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 5

‘utopia’ to describe a perfect or ideal world “represent meaning rather than sound” to the late 1960s. Most visually striking of chosen subject of interest outside the walls of there was a noticeable shift to teaching for an ongoing struggle to improve social (17); as such, the “correlation of sound and the cultural analogues, Well Pressed: Some the library, in winning over new patrons and Book Reviews the corpus of classical authors in both conditions and political structures. meaning must be learned by rote,” a practice Thoughts on Visiting the 12,000 Ton Hydraulic engaging new target audiences. Apparently languages first and explicating grammatical naturally fitting to the didactic ideals of Press (February, 1966), a poster by China’s originating in part from an advanced constructions second. At the same time, Matthew Adams. Teaching Classics in English Stephan Pigeon a communist nation, where all “peasants, foremost cartoonist of the twentieth fourth-year seminar class led by Purtle, the quadrivium (the four subjects or arts) Schools, 1500-1840. Newcastle upon Tyne: McGill University workers, and soldiers” must learn to live in century, Zhang Leping (1910-1992), depicts “Exhibiting China” (FAH465H1), Reading was added to the traditional trivium (which Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 210 accordance with the governing classes’ vision American President Lyndon B. Johnson Revolution has won interest among students comprised grammar, logic, and rhetoric), in p. ISBN 9781443881142. £47.99 / $81.95 of a better life for all – they must see, learn, (1908-1973) with the visual features (106). Complemented by Justin G. Shiller’s schools serving students from the merchant, c (hardcover). and act on a unified message (17-19). This of Sanmao (tr. “Three Hairs”), a cartoon of lecture, ‘A Revolution is not a Dinner Party’: The professional, and commercial classes. is exactly what Mao’s Quotations serves to a small, starving child, about to be crushed Challenges of Collecting Mao, the 2016 John Scholars interested in printing history Reading Revolution: Art and The focus of this short, very readable achieve, they argue, with its 427 quotations by the competing forces of North and Seltzer and Mark Seltzer Memorial Lecture must explore the extensive annotations Literacy During China’s Cultural book is on how Latin and Greek were taught in 33 topical chapters – pithy expressions, South Vietnam, figured by the platen and for the Friends of the Fisher, the exhibition and bibliography. Interspersed amongst in English schools, on what did the teachers Revolution slogans, maxims lifted from Mao’s denser coffin of the press. The visual implication has gained currency among collectors and the books about teaching and various concentrate, how and what did they learn Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, and more full-bodied collected works – of aligning U.S. with Japanese interests, donors. Truly advancing the university’s influential headmasters are useful references in preparation, and of particular interest to University of Toronto having an aphoristic quality, to be imprinted playing upon the satirical use of Sanmao mission for exploring the Marshall McLuhan- to writers, publishing houses, and printing SHARP readers, what books did they use or 21 June–30 September 2016 on the quotidian doings of China’s post- from the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937- derived concept of ‘city as classroom,’ Reading presses, most notably Cambridge and produce as support. The printing of books Confucian official class literate culture: each 1945), is very shrewd, justifying the curators’ Revolution accompanies a thrilling audio Oxford University Presses. Alas, there are about Latin and Greek grammar or classical The exhibition Reading Revolution: Art citizen of the new republic owns a “talisman one-off selection of a poster with no précis guide, downloadable from SoundCloud, no illustrations from the various textbooks authors is not, however, the emphasis of and Literacy During China’s Cultural Revolution, of literacy,” and around the simple sayings text regurgitated from Mao’s Quotations. And letting interested parties listen to songs of used during the period, and their visual this slim volume, but there are abundant on display at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book of this ‘Little Red Book’ (so called because of course legendary Canadian physician, the revolution even after library hours – one dimension is certainly a fruitful area that references throughout to this important Library from 21 June to 30 September 2016, of its red-vinyl wrapper) evolves a visual and alumnus of University of Toronto, melody, “The East is Red,” is dangerously could be exploited in future studies on the subject for book historians. Instead, Adams curated by University of Toronto Associate system of aide-mémoire for beginner readers Norman Bethune (1890-1939), devotee to catchy (track 7, here). A large number of subject. chooses to reflect upon teachers and readers Professor of Chinese & East Asian Art – graphic art with words, not banners (22) – Maoist teachings of self-sacrifice for the Gayn’s collected posters and postcards, In sum, this is a fascinating monograph of the classics for the crucial period in history Jennifer Purtle and Elizabeth Ridolfo, crystalizing the expressed principles of any greater good, gets a case all to himself (case his woodblock prints and papercuts – his on the history of schools and education, stretching from 1500 to 1840. Special Project Librarian of the Thomas one of the Chairman’s policy endorsements. 5; see Mao’s essay “In Memory of Norman memorabilia keying us into the obstacles particularly teaching establishments in The author begins his study with Fisher Library, accompanied by a lush, colour Where the exhibition and catalogue Bethune” [1939], reprinted here, 337-384). and triumphs of perhaps the largest cultural England between 1500 and 1840, which background discussion about education in catalogue, with descriptions of 50 of the are most effective is in their expression It is hard for me to stress enough the turning point of political thought from the taught Latin and Greek to boys. The author England during the Middle Ages, focusing unprecedented 217 objects, is well-timed and of cultural convergences, their integration significant innovative work done by Purtle twentieth century – are freely downloadable, carefully traces the evolution of teaching on education in Latin and Greek starting wide-ranging, a glorious celebration of the of mixed-media, and their discussion of a and Ridolfo and Fisher Library Staff for in surrogate, most outside copyright, philosophies and pedagogical strategies just before 1500, then moving on to the fiftieth anniversary of the Chinese Cultural wide range of literary and textual artifacts reaching out to new and repeat library through Flickr (papercuts, posters). for teaching Classics as a subject. It is Renaissance period, and then underlining its Revolution (1966-1969), and a testament together, making a genuine bid for the value patrons, both for how they have chosen to Be sure to drop by the Thomas interesting to learn how Latin was taught evolution and shift in emphasis in the early to the variety of books, posters, audio of LAM management. In tracing Gayn’s distribute parts of the exhibition and what Fisher Library to examine the items in schools during this period and to witness modern period. The final chapters describe recordings, and objects generously donated background as a Russian Jew born Mark they have chosen to include. For example, of the Gayn collection. Otherwise, how Classical Greek became fashionable, the revitalization of Classics under the to the University by Mark Gayn (1909- Julius Ginsbourg in Barim, a “small town the exhibition contains posters done in see them online or listen to them. 50 unfashionable, and then popular again. influential and dynamic educator Thomas 1981) and his wife Susan (b. 1921). near the Manchurian-Mongolian border,” woodblock printing – both monochrome years on from the Chinese Cultural Readers will learn about the publishing Arnold, headmaster at Rugby School from The exhibition and catalogue, prepared Ridolfo comments on how Gayn found and multicolour – images painted in Revolution many still look new, and the history of Latin and Greek grammars and 1821 until his death in 1842. After this collaboratively by Purtle and Ridolfo, his calling for journalism “while reading a gouache, in the Social Realist style, personal others embody a meaningful nostalgia, textbooks produced by educators for their date, the pedagogical approach to teaching proceed intriguingly by advancing the Russian style wall newspaper” – this is a very photographs, cups, games, toys, pins, and palpable to anyone aware of and peers and students. Most importantly, Classics as a subject changed to its current hypothesis that the unique brand of anti- clever connection in light of Gayn’s later badges, many collected by Gayn during his sensitive to the items’ place in history. readers will gain a profound understanding form, which stresses authors’ writings – Revisionist Marxism-Leninism espoused habits poster-collecting (8). Ridolfo notes visits to China in 1965, 1967, and 1971 (10), of why Latin and Classical Greek are taught grammar playing only a secondary role. in the People’s Republic of China under that Gayn “conducted an extensive interview when the social and cultural upheavals of Joshua McEvilla as they are today. Authors generally taught in schools included the leadership of the late Chairman of the with [Mao Tse-tung] lasting 10 hours, with revolution were greatest, items that “have Toronto, Ontario Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, Cicero, Communist Party, Mao Tse-tung (1893- only a short break for lunch,” conveying never been shown, and are now scarce Miriam Kahn Tacitus, and especially Virgil. 1976), had a global effect on literacy, the much about early CPC privilege for foreign both in and outside of China” (6). Most Exhibition and Catalogue by Jennifer Kent State University Using the writings of prominent historians likes of which are difficult to perceive among journalists, the Party’s commendable striking, this “sharp-eyed chronicler” was so Purtle and Elizabeth Ridolfo, with the like Bede and teachers such as Lily, Colet, and members of English-speaking nations. willingness to communicate openly (9). open minded as to admit into his purview contribution of Stephen Qiao. Toronto: c Erasmus, as well as diaries and letters written Beginning with a case of copies of different ‘Living Newspapers’ receive some minor fragile, traditionalist papercuts, from which Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (Printed by students, Adams delves into the teaching early printings of Quotations from Chairman coverage, with the exhibition and catalogue the exhibition and catalogue’s main graphic by Coach House Press), 2016. 114p., ill. Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown, and David of Latin in England and Continental Europe. Mao Tse-tung (1966, first Chinese edition; including photographic images taken by is derived (Worker, Peasant, and Soldier with Shuttleton, eds. Before Blackwood’s: Scottish It is not surprising perhaps to discover that first, second, and third printings), which Gayn and his wife previously uploaded to Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung [c. Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. London: Greek was taught after the student learned correlates with a catalogue essay written by the Fisher Library’s Flickr account (44). 1968]) and a tiny but realistically featured Pickering & Chatto, 2015. xii, 161p. ISBN c Latin. In the earliest period covered through Purtle on the rapid growth of literacy in North American scholars would probably machine gun wind-up toy, a gift to any 9781848935501. £60 / US $99 (hardback). the early 1600s, Latin and Greek grammar China that took place over the latter half associate the ‘living newspaper’ movement student fascinated by gender discourse, the was drummed into the heads of students of the twentieth century, the curators point with 1930s America, before the spread of role of homeland defence in rural life, and the This short but informative collection with examples from classical authors’ to a remarkable reality that few generalists cinematic news reels (eg., the Federal Theatre identity signifiers of activist guerilla fighting of articles on Scottish journalism between writings. Early textbooks that put emphasis outside of East Asian studies are likely to Project’s Triple-A Plowed Under [1936]); (“Girl Gunner Doll, wind-up toy” [c. 1967]). 1700 and the 1820s is worth reading, not on grammar were a boon for teachers of know: Chinese languages are logographic, but, through Gayn, it is clear that such In several respects, Purtle and Ridolfo only for those interested in Scotland but for Classics. By the mid-seventeenth century, in that the symbols of a script-character performative news drama outlasted film have triumphed masterfully, in bringing their all concerned with the wider history of print ... /6 6 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 7

... / 6 culture. The wide range of topics discussed fascination of Blackwood’s with the long-sunk and the Agricultural Recreations followed between poles of self-seeking and generosity, teachers – on the shaping of character. measures to avoid contracting the plague. by its contributors makes it impossible to Scots Magazine should modify the popular it; as Anderson was seldom well-off, it is deep spirituality and abject materialism, a Giovanni even goes so far as to offer a series This difference in attitude is not only a provide a detailed summary, but for those view of Blackwood’s magazine as the not clear how he managed to support all delight in the clinking of florins and a horror of prescriptions for the proper education function of the passing of time and greater riveted by the period there is much of harbinger of a new age of periodical writing. of these publications. His editorial and of the plague. Collectively, these writings of the “poor, unfortunate child naked and familiarity with the disease, but is reflective interest. In the ‘Afterword,’ Murray Pittock This brief summary hardly does justice to journalistic endeavours indicate, however, offer a far fuller and more intimate view of abandoned” (137). Readers interested in of the mercantile world view, one whose reminds readers that “the public sphere [in the variety and detail of each essay, but I the extent to which the reading public had the merchant experience than can found examining such issues as the family dynamic, hallmarks are optimism, doggedness, and Scotland] was not necessarily conducive to must limit more in-depth comments to the grown. Anderson was also but one of a in Giovanni Villani, Dino Compagni, and conventions of childrearing, and ideas on resilience in the face of calamity. the disinterested pursuit of truth ascribed to two contributions that overlap with my own group including the MP George Dempster other chroniclers of the period: lives marked education in merchant class families of From the moment they begin the it by [John Stuart] Mill, or the openness to research interests in political economy. and the booksellers Knox who objected to by the daily struggle to survive blows dealt this period will find a wealth of relevant second document in this anthology – the dialogue implicit in the Habermasian model” Interestingly, the Edinburgh Review is the neglect of local economic issues. The by bad debts, burdensome dowries, forced information in these texts. same chronicle by Giovanni di Paolo and “[i]t could rather be profoundly and identified as the literary vehicle of the literati dealt more with France than with the loans, lost or confiscated goods, exorbitant Just as these accounts often mingle Morelli referred to above – many readers savagely partisan” (129). Pittock interestingly Moderates, the party most allied with hinterland of their country. These odd facts duties, and so forth. spiritual and economic concerns in ways will be surprised to discover the degree to adds that “the associational model of the the Scottish Enlightenment, those who should help circumscribe the Scottishness of One of the defining qualities of these that tend to confound the drawing of facile which Boccaccio’s stories, even the most public sphere as offering a free exchange wanted to modify the rigours of Scottish the Scottish Enlightenment and suggest the merchant writings is their regular integration conclusions regarding the merchant’s moral extravagant or implausible among them, of views in a sociable environment…has Calvinism and argue for the enjoyment of extent to which Scots were both Anglophile of spiritual and practical priorities – one character, the intersection of history and actually conform to the lived reality of the always been unpersuasive” (130). What innocent pleasures. It is rightly noted that and Francophile in their perspective. that at times appears entirely natural and personal anecdote in these texts often makes fourteenth-century merchant. Indeed, many has to be examined is the discipline that literary style was of great importance to This collection of essays will interest unreflective, and at other times just as it difficult to distinguish the one from the of the events narrated in these merchant the pursuit of profit added to the entire those associated with this movement. This those curious about the rise of print culture clearly reveals a state of spiritual conflict and other. Bonaccorso Pitti’s Memoirs are at chronicles could, with only the slightest periodical literature, and this is a point that is clearly exemplified by Adam Smith, who in Scotland in the eighteenth century, while anxiety. Though a grain merchant himself once autobiography and history, the life of editorial modification, invisibly take their appears in some of the essays but could bear began by giving lectures on English upon his highlighting its dependence upon economic and only too aware of the economic benefits a remarkable individual who is both an agent place alongside the tales of the Decameron. more prominence. return from Oxford; this experience helped forces, the eagerness of the Scots to show of hoarding grain in times of famine, of historical change and Fortune’s favorite. Readers are sure to be moved by Giovanni’s A brief summary of the collection could him advance to Professor of Rhetoric their literary interests, and the variety of Domenico Lenzi appears to condone the That at least some of these merchant writers account of how his father, Paolo, was put include the following details: Karin Bowie and Belles-Lettres, an appointment from ways in which they sought to do so. Signoria’s decision, during the famine of view themselves as historians is clear from out to nurse in the rural Mugello region, shows how the popular press aroused which he eventually sought transfer to the 1329, to put a cap on grain prices and torture their self-conscious adoption of Livian effectively abandoned to his fate by a strong nationalist feelings in 1705 and position for which he is most remembered, Salim Rashid grain merchants suspected of hoarding. In historiographical conventions – in particular father too old to care and three brothers made it possible for many Scots to believe Professor of Moral Philosophy. If Smith’s Universiti Utara Malaysia his Secret Book, Goro Dati is entirely at ease the view (expressed in the Ab urbe condita) too covetous of their father’s estate to that an English ship had plundered a library is any indication – he is said to have assigning to each of his moral transgressions that the acquaintance with history (and, rescue their younger brother from a life Scottish ship, Seedy Return, and the attackers remarked that “I am a beau in nothing but c a specific monetary penalty – as though the by extension, family history) bears moral of ignorance and poverty. No less riveting then murdered its crew. Stephen Brown my books” – rhetoric remained his first love. heavens were bound by the same principles dividends in that it allows one to avoid is the story of Paolo’s success in pulling makes the unusual point that advertising Even though many of the clergy opposed Vittore Branca. Merchant Writers: Florentine of law that guide mercantile transactions making the mistakes of one’s predecessors himself out of this squalor by the bootstraps, not only allowed the Edinburgh Evening to the Moderates were learned men, it was Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. and secular courts of justice. If, like these and teaches one to avoid what is harmful and a tale that epitomizes all the best traits of Courant to become profitable, but also that important to keep an eye on the Church by Trans. by Murtha Baca. Toronto: University others, Giovanni Morelli apparently sees seek what is good. Consequently, historians the Florentine merchant: resourcefulness, the advertisements themselves attracted influencing the appointment of ministers. of Toronto Press, 2015. x, 407p. ISBN no fundamental incompatibility between and students of historiography will find a resilience, and a good dose of moral virtue. new readers, an indication of Edinburgh’s Since the nobility and the wealthy were 9781442637146. CAD $75.00 (hardcover). the spiritual and practical dimensions of his number of these writings valuable for their Paolo, Giovanni tells us, was favored by new consumer economy. Ralph McLean more partial to the ideas of the Scottish daily life and is as concerned with cultivating highly personal and often quite nuanced “Fortune and his own industry and hard discusses the Edinburgh Review, a journal Enlightenment, the Moderates opposed Students, scholars and more casual moral and intellectual qualities (through the perspectives on historical change. work” (119) – a phrase that almost exactly closely associated with many names familiar any democratic appointments. This political investigators of the Italian Middle Ages study of Virgil, Seneca, Boethius, and others) Perhaps the most obvious audience reproduces the rubric to Decameron Day III. to followers of the Scottish Enlightenment. selection process turned away several able and early Renaissance have good reason to as he is with providing more practical advice for this manuscript is the international Here, in more abbreviated form, are a Rhona Brown reviews the treatment of John ministers, of whom John Witherspoon was celebrate the publication of Murtha Baca’s concerning the danger of standing surety community of Boccaccio’s admirers – few more brief examples of moments in Wilkes in theWeekly Magazine or Edinburgh perhaps the most famous. Witherspoon went expert translation of Vittore Branca’s for others or of putting oneself under specialists and casual readers alike – who, these merchant writings that call to mind Amusement, paying particular attention to to America and ended up as the influential Mercanti scrittori. If not transformed, our obligation without guarantors, his response enchanted by his Decameron, are eager to the Decameron and would be useful points the role of politics and Scottish nationalism President of Princeton University. usual notion of the mercantile experience of to the anniversary of his eldest son’s death learn more of his cultural milieu. Since of comparison for students and scholars of in its formation and support. James James Anderson was an outsider – a this period will at least be greatly expanded reveals a deep-rooted tension: a variety of the relevance of these merchant writings Boccaccio’s work: Anderson’s The Bee is perhaps the closest farmer who was fascinated by knowledge. and enriched by the documents assembled psychomachia that shows us his better angels to Boccaccio’s Decameron is so clear and – Paolo da Certaldo’s tale of the aged representative of the coffeehouse model In the Public Characters (1800-1801), there in this volume, writings – ranging from the warring with the Enemy within; petitionary extensive, I will point out only a few of the Giovanni Cavazza’s success in duping his of associational discourse, and its fate is is an account of Anderson which contains conduct book-like prescriptions of Paolo prayers clashing with a diabolic creed of self- more obvious connections. In his description successors and securing their good behavior described by Jon Mee. The participation of many personal details not readily available da Certaldo’s Book of Good Practices to the seeking materialism. of the plague of 1363, Giovanni Morelli not by leading them to believe that he has Robert Burns in the little known and short- elsewhere, such as the beginning of his picaresque fanfaronade of Bonaccorso As these merchant authors are not only only makes explicit reference to Boccaccio’s deeded them a treasure chest filled with lived Glasgow Magazine is the topic of Nigel involvement with the fisheries and his Pitti’s Memoirs – produced by the same businessmen, but also fathers and patriarchs famous description of the great plague of florins. When, however, the chest is opened Leask’s essay. The last three essays are more contacts, or lack thereof, with officialdom. industrious hands that count out the florins, intent on cultivating the reputation and 1348 in the Introduction to the Decameron, after his death, his legatees discover nothing closely arranged around the writers or the The account of the Bee provided in that wield the daggers, and bury the countless social status of their growing families, a good but repeats, with little variation, a number but an iron bludgeon and the message “This topics addressed in Blackwood’s Edinburgh work tells us that Anderson wrote much victims of violence and plague that darken number of these writings address questions of the details of this description. However – is the last will of Giovanni Cavazza: May he Magazine: Gillian Hughes writes on the earlier of the contents of the journal himself. these pages. Readers of this volume will not related to education. For instance, Giovanni and this is of critical importance and interest who gives his all to others be killed with this works of James Hogg, the intermingling of The biographical account then relates that encounter the carefully curated assertions Morelli stresses the importance of good to students of Boccaccio (and historians of bludgeon.” (84) politics and medicine in the magazine; the Anderson published a monthly publication, of the historian or the compelling fictions intellectual, moral and spiritual guidance in epidemics) – whereas Boccaccio stresses – Bonaccorso Pitti’s ingenious response subsequent anger shown by Blackwood’s is Agricultural Recreations, from London where of the poet, but the voice of the merchants one’s early years and describes the effect the failure of human ingenuity to combat to Rupert of Bavaria’s exorbitant request treated by Megan Coyer, while David he had moved around 1795. A failed themselves, epitomized by an insistent of guardians – ranging from the character the plague, Giovanni’s more optimistic for 500,000 florins recalls the baker Cisti’s Stewart’s concluding essay argues that the periodical in the 1780s had preceded the Bee, and strongly ambivalent “I” that alternates of one’s wet nurse to the temper of one’s account recommends a series of prophylactic equally witty rejoinder in tale VI, 2 of the ... /7 8 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 9

Decameron. these colorful tales – these merchant writers contextualized, and captivatingly written, Scott Clemons and H. George Fletcher. Aldus published Greek Editions of Aldus Manutius and Bibliography of the Aldine Press’ points – In Donato Velluti’s Memoirs we read often reveal a spiritual, elegiac side more in Cameron’s book takes readers inside Peyton Manutius: A Legacy More Lasting than His Greek Collaborators, the interested person out that Manutius’s own catalogs of works of Madonna Diana’s success in surviving the the key of the tragic tales of Decameron Day Place (to appropriate the title of Toth’s Bronze. New York: The Grolier Club, 2015. can obtain a lovely education about this from his firm were the first bibliographies impact of a falling rock – due to her unusual IV. Giovanni Morelli’s commemorative biography of its author) and gives them 351p., ill. ISBN 9781605830612. US $95.00 printer, the subjects on which he published, of Aldine Press books; the authors mention habit of wearing a massive turban! portrait of his eldest son Alberto – of his a revealing tour of the many intellectual (hardcover). his authors, the details of the publications, four other early bibliographers. It looks as – Bernardo Machiavelli’s exasperated precocious learning, excellent character, spaces it occupies. Using interviews and and information on early printing itself. though there must have been two more account of Niccolò Machiavelli’s seduction and excruciating death – is heart-rending. archival research in concert with close From its location in New York City, The table of contents of this catalog general labels: ‘The Dolphin and Anchor’ of a servant girl and success in pinning her Bonaccorsos’s brief – but intensely tragic readings of the novel, Cameron discusses the Grolier Club fosters the collection and does not reveal its sub-organization. Every and ‘Portraits.’ These pages have these pregnancy on another man has all the formal – tale of the Englishwoman who, her city Peyton Place through a variety of scholarly appreciation of books and works on paper, 20 or 30 pages there is a page with a short section titles, but no content. Instead, the characteristics of a well-hatched comedy, under siege, decides to immolate herself lenses. In comprehensively documented as well as the study of their art, history, explanatory note; possibly these notes authors folded the pertinent information and certainly shows a family resemblance to along with her three young children by chapters, Cameron painstakingly pieces production, and commerce by mounting were labels that sub-organized the actual into the annotations on the books in the Decameron tales. rushing into her flaming home, is another together Metalious’s complicated journey to exhibitions, offering educational programs, exhibition. They introduce the sub-sections these sections. Erasmus observed that Once they have read these anecdotes, memorable instance of this contrastive, authorship via interviews with her friends and producing books and exhibit catalogs. of the catalog. Those unfamiliar with the idea for the dolphin and anchor (the and the numerous others that enliven these tragic vein. and colleagues. She composes a detailed From February 25 to April 25, 2015, it Manutius might read these pages first, and printer’s mark used by Manutius) came merchant writings, readers may well come Finally, Murtha Baca’s translation does history of nineteenth-century middle-class hosted the exhibition Aldus Manutius: A then the descriptions of the books in each from an image on the back of denarii coins to view the improbable plot twists and an excellent job preserving the sober, American women’s writing and maintains Legacy More Lasting than Bronze. The exhibit of these themed sections. The themes are (pictured in the catalog) minted in the reign historical vicissitudes of Boccaccio’s more unadorned – but not inelegant – quality of that Peyton Place continues the vital cultural and the catalog produced to accompany it chronological and include these topics: ‘In of Emperor Titus 80 CE and that Pietro byzantine tales in a completely different the original Italian texts. It is, one could and political work of this genre. She presents commemorated the 500th anniversary of the the Beginning’ is about the scholarly record Bembo suggested it to the Venetian printer. light, recognizing in them not only the say, written in a merchant “hand” that an account of the novel’s composition and death of Aldus Manutius (c. 1452-1515), in the Greek language, which nearly died out The books produced by Aldine Press have imaginative wanderings of a creative genius, corresponds precisely to the “merchant ear” publication that focuses on the female editor a famous early printer based in Venice, by the 1450s. After the fall of Constantinople been more lasting than these coins, hence but the quotidian reality of the fourteenth- alluded to by Giovanni di Paolo Morelli in and publisher who saw in Metalious’s book founder of the Aldine Press, recruiter of in 1453, the Greek scholars there went back the subtitle of this catalog and exhibit. The century merchants, none of whom, to his Memoirs. a serious indictment of the repression of manuscripts, and author of books. He is the to Greece or to Crete. Manutius printed ‘Portraits’ section has two copperplate judge by these first-hand accounts, was Cold War-American culture. She analyzes scholar most responsible for the preservation their works. However, before this moment, engravings of Manutius that enable us to a stranger to abductions for ransom, Tobias Foster Gittes thousands of fan letters that readers sent of the classical tradition in printed Greek there were many who could read them, and a picture him. In the entrance hall of the political conspiracies, rampant brigandage, Concordia University, Montréal to Metalious maintaining that they lived and Latin; he invented italic type still used new generation of Greek literate people had Grolier Club today there is a painting by shipwrecks, betrayals, and assassinations. in Peyton Place. Amidst these revelations, today (which mimics Renaissance cursive to exist. Manutius printed Greek grammars François Flemeng (1856-1923) depicting Certainly, Bonaccorso Pitti’s memoirs c Cameron presents close readings of the handwriting in Latin); and he first produced and dictionaries so more people could learn Manutius and Grolier’s meeting; the catalog make the antics of Cellini and Casanova novel that remind us that beneath Peyton small, reasonably priced, octavo-sized paper Greek. ‘Saving the Greeks’ deals with the includes this, with discussion. seem tame by comparison! Readers will not Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Place’s sexual salaciousness lies a compelling books for use by students, scholars, and difficulties of printing in Greek because of its There is a full-page color illustration soon forget Bonaccorso’s vivid description Biography of Peyton Place. Ithaca: Cornell story about one heroine’s quest to pursue schools. G. Scott Clemons is the current many accents and the letters being difficult from each of the 141 books described in of how he was snatched from death by University Press, 2015. xiv, 223p., ill. ISBN a literary career. Most significantly, she president of the Grolier Club, while his to cast in metal type. Hardly anyone had tried this catalog (either a title page, binding, or a group of frisky Germans who took it 080145364X. US $24.95. dissects the reasons why, in the decades since collaborator, H. George Fletcher, is a to print in Greek prior to Manutius. The sample page of text), accompanied by a upon themselves to drag him about the its publication, this complex novel became a scholar on printing of this period and author subsequent sub-section, ‘Pressing Business,’ bibliographical citation and an annotation. room, reasoning that this rough treatment In this comprehensive analysis of Grace parody of itself (including, but not limited of a 1995 catalog about Manutius. Two is about his invention of italic type, while The citations contain author, title, place would either accelerate his convalescence Metalious’s 1956 novel, its scandalous to, its cinematic and television adaptations). short essays by Fletcher precede the catalog ‘Libelli Portatiles’ discusses his invention of of printing, printer, date, and collation or abbreviate his suffering (262). To the reception, and the movie and television The book does have some weaknesses. itself. The first examines Jean Grolier’s the octavo format. The following point is (physical description). The annotations, up longstanding realization that many of the show it spawned, Ardis Cameron establishes It starts off rather slowly and often detours connections with Manutius (documents emphasized: “This revolutionary innovation to a page in length, discuss the following: great historical events are conceived in herself as the preeminent scholarly expert on from the main streets of Peyton Place into show that the two contemporaries met but liberated books from the confines of the authors; contents of the books; language(s) the boudoir, a number of these merchant Peyton Place. Cameron wrote the introduction tangential cul-de-sacs that some readers may once in person). Grolier had considerably library, and enabled reading to become a of the works; typefaces used; bindings narratives provide a complementary insight; to the Northeastern University Press 1999 find repetitive. Cameron’s lengthy discussion more to do with Manutius’s relatives and conveniently personal pursuit for the first and binding histories; manuscripts that the shape of historical events owes just as reissue of the novel and has been the book’s of the television show may be of limited heirs because he established a bookshop time in history.” (97) The following sub- served as the basis for the books; any much to the passion for wealth – the purse greatest champion since. In Unbuttoning interest to scholars of book history. But, like in Paris that sold Aldine Press’s works and section, ‘Flattery and Forgery,’ tells of printers information Manutius added to the texts; and the pocket book – as it does to erotic America, she joins the small but eminent its subject, most of Unbuttoning America is a contributed financially to the wellbeing of in Lyon mimicking Manutius’s italic type and and to whom the copy displayed belongs passion (“the sound,” as Giovanni Morelli group of scholars (Emily Toth, Sally Hirsch- page-turner that will both inform readers Manutius’s children and grandchildren. octavo-sized works without giving him credit today. Some works were from institutions; puts it, “of florins clinking,” 218). Dickinson, and Anna Creadick among them) about Peyton Place and prompt scholars to Fletcher’s second essay discusses a particular – shades of modern intellectual property and some belonged to individual collectors. This Consequently, these primary texts who have rescued Peyton Place from the fate embark on investigations of other novels Aldine Press work that Grolier actually copyright issues! ‘Heirs of Aldus’ addresses catalog has a bibliography and three indexes: will also be of interest and importance to of most bestselling bodice-rippers. The with bad reputations, such as Forever Amber owned, printed on blue paper. Works printed what happened to the Aldine Press after general, provenance, and binding/binding economic historians, or scholars interested work of these scholar-sleuths has inspired and God’s Little Acre. Indeed, Cameron’s on blue paper were less costly than those on Manutius died, the printing work of his terms. The reviewer did not see the exhibit in examining the shaping force of economic a critical reappraisal of the novel that most multifaceted biography “makes a world of vellum but more expensive than those on brother-in-law Gian Francesco Torresani, itself and this catalog is armchair exhibit pressures on the domestic and political academics had considered a dirty book difference” (14) in the scholarship on the white paper. It is relevant to recall that Jean his selling of the press’s books in France, going at its best, provided it covers all the experience of those individuals, the Italian lacking any scholarly value. dirty book. As she asserts in her introduction, Grolier (1489/90-1565) was a Frenchman and connections with Jean Grolier. ‘Paulus works in the exhibit. The intended audience merchants of the fourteenth century, who Cameron’s subtitle is not a conceit. She “Light fiction, it turns out, is serious born in Lyon who served the French Manutius’ covers the printing work of one is academics or general readers interested in were in many respects the principal motors has written the life story of the runaway business” (28), and so is her magisterial government as treasurer of the King’s forces of Manutius’s own sons for the Press. ‘Aldus the history of books and printing. and promoters of Europe’s economic life, bestseller that took America’s sexual dirty study which will no doubt prompt scholars during France’s conquest of parts of Italy. the Younger’ is about his grandson’s printing the unsung heroes of what Branca has laundry and hung it out for all to see, the from many disciplines to revisit Peyton Place. He was a book collector, one of the first career. ‘Collecting Aldines’ concerns the Agnes Haigh Widder called the mercantile epic of the fourteenth book that discreet readers hid under their collectors of works produced by the Aldine early collectors of Aldine Press’s works in the Michigan State University century. In addition to their ear for a good beds and secretly devoured under the Julia Ehrhardt Press or “Aldines” in short. Reading this Renaissance; Grolier was the first prominent anecdote – and obvious pleasure in relaying sheets. Exhaustively researched, brilliantly University of Oklahoma catalog in conjunction with the recently collector of those cultural artifacts. ‘Early c ... /9 10 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 11

Caroline Davis and David Johnson, eds. The While providing valuable information, to ordinary text and language use. Indeed, speech,” “spontaneous speech,” or literary criticism. complexity slows individuals’ response times Book in Africa: Critical Debates. Basingstoke: a few essays fall short in explaining the there is an entire field, psycholinguistics, “‘laboratory speech’ (speech created for Humanists coming to this volume – and involves more complex processing. In Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. New Directions in significance of their subject matter ina which presents significant insights about the use in experiments)” (265); the second set which offers cross-linguistic and cross- short, explicit or implicit prosody that is Book History. 280p. ISBN 9781137401618. larger framework. Each article provides sound representation of language, of which involves implicit prosody, that is, “a prosodic modal investigations of an array of experienced as complex and dense – as the £55.00 (hardback). the reader with immense information on one component is prosody. For humanists, structure [a reader projects] onto what is “grammatical issues…processing issues— prosody of a poem or a dramatic soliloquy the political, historical, ethnic, financial, it should be of great interest to know that read silently” (12). and brain representation…concerning may be – makes important contributions The Book in Africa: Critical Debates is the and geographical characteristics of the era psycholinguists explore both the explicit One central question that the volume explicit and implicit prosody” (2) – will (that we can now empirically recognize) third title in Palgrave Macmillan’s wide- and area that it examines, but some fail at prosody of oral language as well as the implicit poses is whether the implicit prosody of a take away an enriched understanding of the to what James Longenbach calls in The ranging new series New Directions in Book transcending the quality of an individual prosody of written texts; they hypothesize sentence, that is, its “projected prosodic components of explicit and implicit prosody Resistance to Poetry “the notion that we read History. In a decade when scholars have case study, responding to other essays in that even texts existing only on the page or structure may affect the interpretation of (ie., phrasing, accentuation, and rhythm) and for the resistance, not in spite of it” (xii). begun to look beyond the western and the collection, and engaging with broader screen possess a sound representation (i.e., a a sentence” (12). This question matters, as the markers that contribute to them (eg., Recognizing the role of speech prosody predominantly white print culture to push critical conversations. One other weakness phonological dimension) that is potentially, numerous essays demonstrate, to the correct lexical stress, pitch-accent, head-marking, in cognitive processes, in particular in forward the former boundaries of the field, of the volume is the absence of women. and unconsciously, activated by individuals, parsing of potentially ambiguous syntactic and edge-marking). They will also receive silent reading, not only complicates our this new volume edited by Caroline Davis Female authors or publishers are very rarely whether in silent or in oral reading. Because structures, such as garden-path sentences important cautions that certain elements understanding of what ‘reading’ is: it also and David Johnson provides researchers mentioned (255), let alone engaged with. this phonological dimension has both literal (e.g., While Mary was mending the sock fell off like pauses may not always be prosodic but enriches our notions of how texts that with 11 case studies encompassing the fields One would want to read more about the and metaphorical import for the notion of her lap [178]) and extraposed phrases. The may at times involve planning limitations utilize prosody aesthetically engage us as of the history of the book, publishing studies, women participating in publishing cultures, “voice,” including the reported subjective question also affects pragmatic issues, such (ie., “performance”), rather than prosody much in the way in which they mean as they library studies, and literary history. Essays or at least about the reasons of their absence experience of “inner voice,” as well as the as the inferential judgments that listeners (ie., “grammatical representation” [119]), do in their actual meaning(s). examine practices of production, copying, from it. claim that specific texts possess or lack or readers make as they map a speaker’s the takeaway being that the two kinds of dissemination, reception, and consumption The volume contributes successfully to “voice,” this volume presenting “state of the prosody to their intentions (e.g., “It looks features are, in measurable ways, empirically Natalie Gerber of manuscripts and books in North, West, the recent attempts of de-Westernization art” (1) insights into the field should be of like a ZEbra” and it is a zebra vs. “It LOOKS distinctive (see 128). State University of New York at Fredonia and South Africa, making a stand against the in the field of book history as it challenges interest to humanist scholars in a range of like a zebra” but it isn’t [see 104-5]). In short, humanists will find an array belief that “histories of the book in Africa to a notion that is still widely accepted, that disciplines dealing with either the generation Another key question is whether the two of data from fMRI, eyetracking, and other c date have largely been written by ‘outsiders’” “African book history begins with the or the processing, comprehension, and kinds of prosody – explicit and implicit – are empirical strategies to engage, support, and (1). arrival of Europeans” (89). Essay after essay, criticism of natural-language texts: for the same. Such a question has tremendous even confound their notions of how prosodic Eric Gidal. Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic The volume is composed of three the contributors prove the opposite by example, creative writing, rhetoric and implications for the study of writing (even contours affect the perceptual experiences of Poetry in the Industrial Age. Charlottesville and sections with standalone essays examining explaining how circulations of manuscripts composition, education, disability studies, if the volume itself does not take up these reading texts silently or aloud. For scholars London: University of Virginia Press, 2015. material that stretches from early Ethiopian and traditions of copying do in fact indicate English studies, comparative literature, questions). For example, we might well typically focused upon matters of textual xi, 240p., ill. ISBN 9780813938172. US manuscripts to Cameroonian internet an African book history independent of theater, and performance studies. ask what it means for a writer like Robert interpretation, this attention to processing $39.50 (hardback). communications. Part I, entitled ‘From the European influence. As such, The Book The 14 essays in this festschrift, Frost if explicit and implicit prosody are may be a healthy tonic. Script to Print’ focuses on the relationship in Africa: Critical Debates is path-opening: it dedicated to Janet Dean Fodor, a pioneer not the same, or if they are not the same While individual interests will determine A significant contribution to the study between the already-present manuscript excels at putting forward the vast uncharted in the discipline, overlap without being for all individuals. If they are not the same, which essays are the most useful, it may be of the textual afterlife and reception history traditions and printed books. The first territory in African book history that is cumulative. Collectively, they provide or if individual difference affects a reader’s safe to say that many readers of SHARP of James Macpherson’s Ossian productions, article is notable as it produces a contrast to yet to be studied. One weakness of the substantial evidence that the phonological experience of “inner voice,” then questions News – in particular, individuals invested in Eric Gidal’s wide-ranging Ossianic Benedict Anderson’s print capitalism thesis volume, that even as being one of the most encoding of text is relevant to our perceptual about the success or failure of a writer or a the history of reading – will be fascinated Unconformities offers detailed considerations where “capitalism best drives the assembly comprehensive studies in African book processing and performance of oral and/ text to communicate “voice” – i.e., “Never by the chapters by Charles Clifton, Jr. (“The of how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century of disparate communities through print history it covers only a minority of book and or written language: from the parafoveal if you can help it write down a sentence Roles of Phonology in Silent Reading: scholars from disciplines such as geology, commodities circulated via the market” (18). print cultures in the continent, becomes its preview of homophonic words while the in which the voice will not know how to A Selective Review”) and Mara Breen cartography, philology, history, and Archie L. Dick claims that South African one strength and promise: each of the 11 visual input is degraded (163) to the priming posture specially” (Frost, Collected Poems, (“Empirical Investigations of Implicit archaeology recruited the poems of Ossian copying and circulating practices were mostly essays could and would inspire extensive of individuals with recordings that strip the Prose, & Plays, 666) – not only implicate the Prosody”), which present considerable as sources of toponymic and environmental dominated by progressive groups who were research in wider geographies with broader lexical content from an utterance but retain technical skill of the writer but also involve evidence that readers are able to: first, access evidence for their charting and (imaginative) trying to help slaves or ameliorate women’s perspectives. its prosodic contours (181), these studies the pristine inner experience of the reader. not only segmental and lexical content but recovery of landscape, both historical and status in society rather than promoting present empirical evidence that many Similar questions, of course, pertain to texts also suprasegmental information as they contemporaneous. Gidal demonstrates mechanisms of capitalism. Next four essays Gulfer Goze neurotypical individuals tend to process that claim to have “voice” (ie., fiction) or read; and, second, presumably hear “an inner that eighteenth-century debates regarding make up Part II, ‘Politics and Profit in Tufts University or to produce language more efficiently that are required to exhibit voice (ie., original voice while reading” and that this inner voice the authenticity of Homer’s epics and the African Print Cultures,’ and examine the and effectively (i.e., with fewer errors and/ student expository compositions). is “richly prosodic” (169). Likewise, literary verifying of environmental conditions political and economic impact of printing. In c or better global comprehension) when Indeed, some of the intriguing studies critics and creative writers will be interested and geographical loci in the poet’s texts this part, Catherine Davis’ meticulous study phonological information is made available. presented in the volume suggest that there in Bo Yao and Christoph Scheeper’s through geological field work reflect wider on the book empire of the Longmans in Lyn Frazier and Edward Gibson, eds. Explicit The essays, which follow the IMRAD may be a similarity but “not…a one-to- article, which offers fMRI evidence of developments in the charting of territories Africa is a valuable resource for publication and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing: Studies format (Introduction, Methods, Results, one match between overt and implicit brain representations substantiating that and the human past. He explains that these studies. Part III, ‘The Making of African in Honor of Janet Dean Fodor. Berlin: Springer, [and] Discussion) of the social sciences are prosody” (282), particularly with regard to even in silent reading “direct speech [i.e., discussions in Homeric scholarship were Literature,’ investigates the influence of 2015. x, 307p., ill. ISBN 9783319129600. US evenly divided into two sets. (Humanities read-aloud and silently read speech. Also, first-person speech] is more likely to evoke relevant for readers of Macpherson’s work traditional and western publishing practices $179.00 (hardback). scholars: you can, without too much while the experience of implicit prosody is mental simulations of voices or voice-related and that they affected the ways in which the on African literary texts. Ruth Bush and loss, skip the methods sections detailing hard to assess, it is unlikely to be universal; representations than indirect speech” (298). poems of Ossian were made meaningful Claire Ducournau’s essay is important as it Humanists, who likely associate the experimental design and focus on results rather, “individual differences” (283) must The pivotal payoff for all readers may for a diachronic, geomorphological, lays out clearly the dynamics between France term prosody with poetics, may be fascinated to and discussion.) The first set involves explicit be taken into account; these differences, be a point made in Shari R. Speer and and ecological-political reconception of and its former colonies through a case study discover that prosody has a robust existence prosody, that is, the production and analysis understandably, have implications for Anouschka Foltz’s chapter but variously modern, increasingly industrialized Scottish on Francophone African literary prizes. and empirically driven history in relation of prosodic contours, whether in “read decisions from classroom pedagogy to borne out throughout the book that prosodic and Irish landscapes. The author states in ... / 11 12 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 13 the introduction that he examines how the paid close attention to the geographical- Michael Hampton. Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the most influential early exhibitions that through printed copies of works. This authors such as Samuel Johnson, William “conjectural mappings of bardic poetry ecological inscription of Macpherson’s the artists’ book. Axminster, Devon: envisioned what the artist’s book could type of authorship necessitated that Wordsworth, George Crabbe, Walter combined science and sentiment with an productions and whether the toponymic Uniformbooks, 2015. 174p., ill. ISBN become. Hugo stated that before printing all posthumous reputation developed from Scott, Robert Southey, Mary Brunton, and increasingly poignant sense of loss as they matrix of the poems could be mapped – via 9781910010068. £12. books were made by artists, and later wrote, marketable success in the past. By contrast, Jane Austen, as well as William Blake and came to echo Ossian’s lamentations not only models of geological transformation – onto “...one has only to recall the history of the the heroic type of authorship that William the labouring-class poets, John Clare and for a culture passed out of time but for a late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century In Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the artists’ book from painted stones and cylinder seals Wordsworth formulated in his 1815 Robert Bloomfield. She examines how natural environment whose permanence Scottish and Irish geographical areas. It is book, Michael Hampton’s goal is to shift the to Medieval jeweled covers and Russian “Essay, Supplementary to the Preface” these authors’ branded identities as well as could no longer be assured” (4). The result the recruitment of philological procedures grounds on which scholars seek to answer Futurist books on wallpaper, to see how to Lyrical Ballads is underpinned by the their works were mediated throughout their is a persuasive account of the afterlife of used in Ossian-related scholarship, including that perennially pesky question, “What is an flexible these limits [of artists’ books] poet’s conviction that true recognition of lifetimes and after their deaths. The author Ossian’s poems in the geological-ecological conjectural etymologies, that shapes the artist’s book?” In a gray-papered and un- actually are.” original genius will be conferred upon the pays attention to how different mechanisms discourses that emerged in the period to varied engagement with the landscapes illustrated 26-page (numbered A-Z) Exposé Hampton’s 50 examples of artists’ author only after death and that popularity in the “fame system” facilitated lasting chart both the land and its history. and particular geographical areas (such bound into the middle of Unshelfmarked, books fit within Hugo’s parameters and in an author’s lifetime, as Jackson elaborates reputations for some and resulted in Gidal adopts the title term as Ulster) in Scotland and Ireland. In the Hampton files the artist’s book in an would generally receive no argument throughout her volume, frequently results declining reputations for others. Factors “unconformity” from the field of geology process, Ossian’s third-century geographies “ecosystem” that ranges from tramp art from the authors in his “guild.” His in the author’s reputation being short-lived. affecting the fame of authors included but, beyond the first two chapters, does are harnessed as part of geomorphological to pooh sticks via hopscotch, sewing bees, canon includes Ed Ruscha, Dieter Roth, While popularity in Johnson’s notion of the genres they used for their published not centrally use it, thereby creating the explanations that account for changes football fanzines and “rubbish of every Marcel Broodthaers, Ronald King, and the success in the marketplace was essential works and whether these genres became impression that its integration into the overall in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century kind” (O). Bechers. Also included are the Lindisfarne to forming a reputation, Wordsworth’s embedded within university syllabi, as argument is not essential to the undoubted landscapes. Hampton uses Germano Celant’s Book Gospels, a Vesalius anatomy, an advertising concept of authorship attributes a role well as whether these authors’ texts were success of the author’s project. The strength Highlights of Ossianic Unconformities are as Artwork 1960/1972 as his initial frame of volvelle from the 1940s, and a stack of to popularity that is negative and that – popularized beyond the academy among of Gidal’s work consists in its author’s chapters 1-3: in these sections, Gidal reference. He has worked with this catalogue Charles Babbage’s punch cards. This broad because of the mass appeal of the author’s as heterogeneous a reading audience as bringing together a range of different texts provides nuanced considerations of previously; in 2011 he published a manifesto, inclusiveness underpins much contemporary texts it supposes among reading audiences possible. Immediately after an author’s belonging to varied genres and using a range paratextually-framed bodies of the poems THEARTISTSBOOKANEWHISTORY, understanding of the medium while helping – vanishes once the fashions to which death, the foundation of posthumous fame of discursive systems, at the same time of Ossian. While seeking to make sense of that also referenced Celant. Hampton’s to create barriers to a formal definition of popular authors catered are superseded by could be laid by family members or groups deeply engaging with the poems of Ossian. Macpherson’s intertextual borrowings from manifesto forms the basis of this current the form and to an agreement about whether new ones. Wordsworth’s notion thus argues of admirers solicitous to promote the He insightfully explicates how the editors a host of eighteenth-century and classical longer work. In both, Hampton takes artists’ books belong in the gallery or the against following literary fashions and in deceased writer’s renown and recognition of various editions of Ossian’s poems take poets, as Malcolm Laing does in his 1805 fundamental exception to the notion that library. Hampton might perhaps say neither. favour of “radical independence” (63). into a lasting reputation by putting together fundamentally different views regarding edition, other editors transpose the poems the first true artists’ books were made by Wordsworth’s contemporary, George a monumental edition of the author’s works, the texts’ authenticity while, in the process, into a map of coordinates that are both William Blake. Instead, he offers several Kathleen Walkup Crabbe is shown to have adopted a including, if available, correspondence, and, embracing the geological-ecological turn of spatial and temporal, and which can be examples of medieval manuscripts as truer Mills College pragmatic notion of authorship, writing, most importantly, a biography. Reputations works such as, among others, the Reverend meaningful for the mapping of the present. harbingers. Leaving aside the obvious like Johnson, to make money. He neither were consolidated by the posthumous John Smith’s Galic Antiquities (1780), Sir John The last chapter, with its introduction of differences between Blake’s completely self- c fits the Johnsonian nor the Wordsworthian inclusion of authors’ works in anthologies Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland (which Jules Verne, is less central to the geological- generated work and that of the scribes who types of authorship, but his major and school books as well as the reprinting was published over the course of the ecological argument that Gidal advanced in wrote other people’s words in the psalters H. J. Jackson. Those Who Write for Immortality: difference from Wordworth, in terms of of the authors’ complete works. 1790s), and Hugh Campbell’s 1822 edition the earlier chapters, but it demonstrates that and Bibles they made beautiful, the idea that Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting his posthumous reputation, consists of his These and many other factors Jackson of Macpherson’s poems. Furthermore, even at that time in the nineteenth century an enormous range of historical work feeds Fame. New Haven: Yale University Press, lack of versatility. Crabbe produced long explores in her book. But it is to be Gidal’s accounts of the remediations of the poems of Ossian were still widely into the current notion of what constitutes 2015. 294p., ill. ISBN 9780300174793. US poems, like Wordsworth did, but without regretted that the ‘Interlude’ – in which she Ossian’s poems pay attention both to how remediated. artists’ books is compelling, if not exactly $35.00 (hardback). generating a more diversified oeuvre, identifies a range of these mechanisms – other readers textually rework these poems’ Ossianic Unconformities is a work that will new. including lyric productions. Jackson is introduced only after Chapter 3. In the geographical, ecological, and character- appeal to anyone interested in the afterlife Hampton contrasts his broader H. J. Jackson’s insightful book not only demonstrates that it was Wordsworth’s ‘Interlude’ Jackson offers a methodology for specific data by means of new discursive of Ossian. It explains how different (non- definition with that of the “informal guild” examines what she terms the “fame system” lyric poems which survived in anthologies the study of the making of reputations that and scientific systems and how they recruit literary) genres affected the ways in which (B) of authors who have written about (6) responsible for immortalizing authors, and school books during the Victorian would have benefited readers more if it had media such as engraved maps and (less the poems of Ossian were recruited as artists’ books. Hampton’s list represents but also investigates the interrelationship period, when the modern Romantic canon been placed at the beginning of the book. successfully) music to validate their own part of a project to map both the past and an accurate assessment of recent writing between authors’ “present” fame and was being defined; at that point, the longer To the literary critic, Chapter 4, entitled work or Macpherson’s, or both. the present (and forecast the future) of on the medium. It includes among others authorial reputation, the latter of which she productions of Crabbe (and of Robert ‘What about Merit?,’ is probably the most Like the other texts discussed, Sinclair’s Scotland. Gidal’s study offers challenging Lucy Lippard, Clive Phillpot, and Anne glosses as fame of “the posthumous kind” Southey, who had been enjoying a position interesting, as Jackson relates John Keats, work was part of a complex development in contextual readings, and its high standard of Mœglin-Delcroix. Not all of the writers (2). The study includes useful discussions of of popular eminence in his lifetime) Leigh Hunt, and Barry Cornwall to one antiquarian studies, land surveying, and the scholarship indicates new directions in the on Hampton’s list, however, embrace a types of authorship that are conceptualized were neither adopted for reprinting in another, asking why Keats survived the test recording of human and geographical data. interdisciplinary study of literature and its unifying definition: Johanna Drucker, for by writers contemplating the afterlife of anthologies (because of their length), nor of time, in spite of his works possessing less Like those texts, it absorbed some of the reception. instance, titled her 1995 book The Century of both their works and their posthumous included in school books because of the merit than some of Hunt’s and Cornwall’s information that the lengthy debate regarding Artists’ Books as an intentional challenge to authorial personae. These types include (realist and esoteric) subjects with which productions. Disappointingly, the idea of the authenticity of the poems of Ossian had Sandro Jung Riva Castelman’s earlier catalogue of livres Samuel Johnson’s “assisted” authorship they dealt. While the types of authorship literary merit, despite the author’s promise made readily available in print. For reasons Ghent University d’artistes, A Century of Artists’ Books. involving numerous agents of print who that Jackson outlines for each author are of offering detailed close readings, is other than the geological mapping of land, In 1978 Joan Hugo (who formed her promote an author’s reputation by exploiting useful exercises in identifying differences never fully explained. Nevertheless, it is an scholars such as Hugh Blair and Malcolm c ideas about the book’s possibilities while the property value of particular works. between individual writers’ conceptions of intriguing question that the chapter raises. Laing had sought to validate or refute working as a librarian at MOMA, the New Assisted authorship, because it relied on a lasting literary afterlife, these types are Did literary historians of the late nineteenth the authenticity of the poems of Ossian. York Public Library, and the Sorbonne the marketability of literary works, ensured frequently too decidedly mutually exclusive. century not focus on the merit of the Their reading practices were emulated by before landing at a small art college in Los an author’s renown by means of asserting Jackson’s volume is wide-ranging in authors they canonized and do modern writers such as Sinclair and Campbell who Angeles in 1957) curated the first of two of his or her presence in the marketplace scope and offers excellent case studies of historians continue this canonizing on 14 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 15 the same principles? I agree with Jackson The book’s early chapters offer a fine- Kirchmann’s analysis relies on the translation refreshed, as in the case of Twelfth Night, multilingual textual consumers, although Erik Kwakkel, ed. Manuscripts of the that, in each case she discusses, it is the grained biography of Antoni A. Paryski, of thousands of letters and articles from which Stuart Sillars studies in a melancholy their access to and consumption of texts in Latin Classics 800-1200. Leiden: Leiden circumstances surrounding the individual, founder and owner of Ameryka-Echo, giving their original Polish into English. This 1908 edition illustrated by Heath Robinson. German, French, or Italian is not analyzed. University Press, 2015. Studies in Medieval his or her embeddedness within a social particular attention to his rise to prominence translation project opens up the potential Readers – across classes, regions, and And Melissa Homestead’s study of US and Renaissance Book Culture. 224p., ill. ISBN and political framework, as well as the in the American publishing world. for substantial new scholarship in the future, genders – have a strong presence in this novelist Catherine Sedgwick’s efforts to 9789087282264. €39.50 (paperback). particular genre-specific or locality-related Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann points out that the as five hundred of the letters are reproduced collection, which addresses a range of topics obtain British copyright both makes an appeal of the authors’ works, that were editorial, political, and personal pressures in their entirety in a companion volume, pertaining to the history of reading, from the important contribution to our understanding This paperback presents six case studies essential to their canonization and literary Paryski faced at the helm of Ameryka-Echo Letters from Readers in the Polish American Press, visual literacy required by eighteenth-century of transatlantic literary relations and, in of medieval manuscript copies of Latin “immortality.” In Chapter 4, however, shaped his desire to maintain the newspaper’s 1902-1969: A Corner for Everybody. broadsides to the virtual readers of Garrett the context of this collection, raises the works that were composed between the Jackson probes the issue of merit, which if separation from the “immigrant fraternal Stewart’s essay. Of particular interest for the question of the extent to which the English first century BCE and the fifth century done on the grand scale of literary period, organizations” on the one hand, and the Rachel Collins study of reading and reception is Shafquat distribution of books from abroad inflected CE. It is edited by the medieval book would relativize the importance that literary “religious or nationalist Polonia press” Arcadia University Towheed, Francesca Benatti, and Edmund the landscape of canonization. Many of historian Erik Kwakkel who argues in critics have attributed to poetic form and on the other hand, which required him to c G. C. King’s “Readers and Reading in the these essays touch upon the question of his introduction (13-21) that, as material aesthetic achievement. In the investigation chart a delicate course between competing First World War,” in which each of the British national identity, but the rich sorts objects, these codices form a distinct group, of literary fame along Jackson’s lines, merit alliances (39). This was a highly unusual path Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, authors takes a different approach to the of approaches opened up by Antoinette since the Latin classics of both the Roman is thus the subject that will separate the that put him at odds with other publications eds. The History of the Book. Thematic Issue of study of British wartime reading practices: Burton, Ian Baucom, and Daniel O’Quinn Republic (509-27 BCE) and the Roman literary critic from the literary historian. within the larger ethnic press of the period, the Yearbook of English Studies, no. 45. London: a computational analysis of reading do not find their book historical parallels Empire (27 BCE-295 CE) were taught in Jackson’s stimulating work has offered which is a dynamic Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann Modern Humanities Research Association, experiences in wartime publications remains here. What happens to English book history the schools of northern Europe. These many answers to questions related to the outlines with clarity and precision. 2015. 296p., ill. ISBN 9781781882122. mostly speculative, but it is well supported when it is embedded in a multilingual reading Latin codices do not stand apart in their mediation of authorial reputations. Beyond In later chapters, Jaroszyńska- £100.00 / $150.00 (paperback). by a close study of textual circulation culture, or extended across the empire (and physical appearance and the circumstances that, her introduction of merit in her account Kirchmann shifts her attention to the among prisoners of war and another of a back again)? of their manufacture within the wider should be taken up by future scholars in the social, cultural, and political functions of Though the Yearbook of English single reader on the Macedonian front. The Finally, this volume interestingly indexes context of medieval manuscripts from remapping of literary history. Ameryka-Echo, and particularly to what she Studies describes itself as a publication methodological strength of this article lies in the effects of the digital on book history with Christian Europe; they provide glimpses calls the “community of readers-writers” “devoted to the language and literature of the its ability to tell multidimensional histories its many essays treating dimensions of print’s of what the papyrologist Roger Bagnall Sandro Jung who were active in the newspaper’s “Corner English-speaking world,” this year’s special from multiple points of analysis. past that mass digitization projects like has called “the entire social dimension of Ghent University for Everybody” over the course of the issue, The History of the Book, is narrowly The essay on the prisoner-of-war library Google Books tend not to capture, or not to the technology of writing” (“Materializing newspaper’s 72-year run. In fact, a particular focused on the British Isles. As scholars of is one of a number of studies concerned capture well: illustrations, broadsheets, print- Ancient Documents,” Daedalus 145, no. 2, c strength of this book is its treatment of colonial American textual cultures, we find with the process of collection. David Allan manuscript hybrids, notebooks, diaries and 2016, 82). these reader-produced pages not as merely ourselves unexpectedly positioned to review takes up collection in its most literal form, journals, and art made of books. Surprising, The volume is one of the outcomes of Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann. The Polish a record of public sentiment, but also this collection as interlopers. It is from this illuminating the contents and contours then, is the tentative approach to digital Kwakkel’s NOW-VIDI project, Turning over Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the as a negotiation of meaning and power position that we address broad questions of of bibliophilia and its accompanying scholarship represented here. England has a New Leaf (conducted from 2010 to 2015), Immigrant Press. University of Illinois Press, between editors and readers. Arguing that interest to SHARP’s global audience. What accumulations as they shaped eighteenth- long been at the forefront of Anglophone which explored changes in the manufacture 2015. 304p. ISBN 9780252039096. US $60. the uniquely “participatory character of the can this regional collection tell us about century British literary life. The thematics textual digitization and corpus linguistics, and design of manuscripts as material Polish-language press” in the United States the state of book history in British studies? of collection also appear in studies of series, and the studies represented in this volume evidence of the intellectual and cultural In 1936, Pawel Maloposki published a was founded on the practice of publishing What contribution does it make to our anthologies, and editions: what happens show an awareness of the richness of digital history of the twelfth century. Its case letter in the “Corner for Everybody” section reader-produced materials, Jaroszyńska- understanding of book history as a global when disparate texts are brought together in resources and of the methods used to studies reveal how, between the Carolingian of his local Polish-language newspaper, Kirchmann traces the contours of a print- discipline? a single binding or a single room? At stake analyze them, along with a healthy concern renaissance of the eighth and ninth centuries writing: “if you once drop by this ‘Corner,’ it based public sphere in which individuals The volume features thirteen essays, in these studies is the formation and stability for the adequacy of these methods. Yet none and the renaissance of the twelfth century, is not easy to leave it—so it is not surprising variously debated social issues, shared in roughly chronological order by subject of the national literary canon. Yet the of these computational analyses were carried scholars developed “an array of strategies that I too made my home here, and since I personal memories, dispensed advice, matter, seven of which focus on the international dimensions of book collecting to completion. to produce, transmit, and apply ancient did, I want to contribute to its benefit” (151). articulated a sense of shared diasporic eighteenth century. The contributors are for and the specter of textual fragmentation In reviewing this collection, we find knowledge” (20). The articles by Marike These lines illustrate Maloposki’s sense of identity, and positioned themselves both the most part senior figures in their fields. – the counterpoint of accumulation or ourselves asking many of the same questions Teeuwen (23-50, 193-196), Irene O’Daly loyalty to a discourse community located within and against a larger American Collectively, the essays paint the field of curation – haunt these studies, and, for that that are engaged critically in various of its (77-105, 198-203), and Rodney Thomson within the pages of the newspaper Ameryka- community (139). In fact, Jaroszyńska- book history in broad strokes, addressing matter, our reading of them. studies: questions about the role that acts of (169-185) originated as contributions to Echo, which is the primary focus of Anna D. Kirchmann’s argument that Ameryka-Echo’s the illustration, printing, sales, copyright, Despite its narrow focus on the British collection have played in the establishment, Kwakkel’s 2013 colloquium ‘Writing the Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann’s groundbreaking promotion of a wide range of reader-writer anthologizing, collection, and reading of Isles, hints of larger spheres of textual or about the contestation of canons and Classics.’ They share a gesture of inversion, book, The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the activities resulted in a “bond between the books and ephemera. Methodologically circulation appear throughout the volume. traditions. Each of the essays here is elegant as they highlight mostly overlooked textual Public Role of the Immigrant Press. Jaroszyńska- newspaper and its readers [that] made the diverse, the essays move among several Thomas F. Bonnell’s “Furnishings” and well researched, and together they and visual elements in order to move from Kirchmann places letters like Maloposki’s relationship appear more personal,” forms areas: the close reading of texts, images, highlights a 1770 advertisement for the offer a survey of the landscape of modern questions about the canon’s formation to in a series of broad contexts, alternately the heart of this study’s contributions to and correspondence; the printing history English Poets series – which includes Devil British book history. The questions that they questions about its reception. Their authors focusing on such letter writing’s significance existing scholarship on the ethnic press, of specific presses or genres; and the on Two Sticks (probably Foulis’s 1768 provoke are encouraging, pointing toward do not ask which Latin works were known, to individual readers and writers, on American immigration, and early twentieth- larger-scale analyses that contributor Mary translation of Alain-René Lesage’s Le Diable new pathways in British book history. but focus instead on how they were read. In Ameryka-Echo’s rhetorical function as a site century print culture. Hammond describes as distant reading. Boiteux). Translations and textual borrowings her study of Carolingian codices, Teeuwen for epistolary communication in American Finally, it is crucial to note that The From the pocket memorandum book from across Europe lace the anthologies and Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Matt Cohen analyzes their marginal notes and markup as Polonia, on the newspaper’s role within Polish Hearst constitutes a massive scholarly (Stephen Colclough) to the jobbing printing libraries of the literary figures represented The University of Texas at Austin evidence of textual criticism. Learning aids the larger ethnic press, and on its status undertaking. More than a decade’s worth of of seventeenth-century London (James in these studies. In the article on the First are discussed in O’Daly’s survey of diagrams as the business venture of one particularly painstaking archival research is represented Raven), forgotten genres are revived, and World War, we are further reminded that c preserved in some manuscripts of De ambitious Polish immigrant. in the pages of this book, and Jaroszyńska- our understanding of long-studied texts is the British elite who fought abroad were inventio by Cicero (106-43 BCE). Thomson 16 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 17 uses commentaries and introductions 120-122). With regard to his illustrations, and immoral texts] (2) were treated as a “nerves” replaced earlier concerns about work, more than 600 pages in length, on that demonstrate his skill, is geared towards ascribed to the English Benedictine monk Kwakkel relies on percentages to indicate category of print in nineteenth-century the disordering effects of reading on which Bodoni had been labouring for more familiarizing readers with a world that William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) to the ratio between original and reproduction: Germany. In tracing the legal, intellectual, imagination and reason: with this shift, the than four decades and which was completed requires visual demonstration. Equally, the suggest the latter’s familiarity with less- e.g., “168% of true size” (208). This use of and material history of this multifarious threat of obscenity became its power to and published posthumously by his widow, explanatory appendices (on subjects such as known works and authors, such as De deo percentages indicates how unremarkable it category as it developed within a complicated deplete the social body, in contrast to earlier Ghitta, in 1818. Lester devotes attention punch-cutting, the production of matrices, Socratis by Apuleius (b. c.125 CE) and the has become to zoom in and out of digital geopolitical context, Fragile Minds and concerns about its incitement of destructive to his early life, including his growing up and printing on a hand-press, as well as a bio-bibliographical sketch of Fulgentius facsimiles on our computer screens (cf. Vulnerable Souls makes an important enthusiasm. These sections reveal important in Saluzzo, in Piedmont. She imagines him short contribution entitled “The Trieste Mythographus (fl. 500 CE). 120, n.27). Unfortunately, the manuscript contribution to the histories of obscenity continuities in changing conceptions and as preoccupied from an early age with old Leaf” by James Mosley) further indicate The articles by Robert Babcock (53- index does not include the URLs of codices and censorship, and to the history of reading treatments of obscenity across the West in matrices that his grandfather had produced that the book is not targeted at historians of 74), Erik Kwakkel (107-129, 204-211), available as digital facsimiles, even though more broadly. the nineteenth century, while highlighting and which, so Lester supposes, would have printing and European print culture. This is and David Gura (131-166, 212-215) were in some instances (e.g., 194 and 202) the Sarah L. Leonard argues that the ways the particularities of the German context. playfully initiated the boy, Giambattista, not a problem per se, but Lester’s work will be specifically written for this volume. Babcock original pages are so much reduced in size in which “exposure to different kinds of Other chapters focus more directly on into the world of the printed word and read by both non-specialists and specialists. draws on florilegia to establish that in the that the reproductions can convey little more texts and images could transform selves the works themselves. Chapter 3 examines typographic art that he was to shape so The latter will deplore that the latest tenth and eleventh centuries the poems than an impression of the mise-en-page. and societies” (1) preoccupied authorities the authors, editors, and publishers of decisively by the late eighteenth century. The biography of the typographer does not of Tibullus (1st cent. CE) were studied Textbooks are a cross-cultural throughout the German states during the nineteenth-century erotic books and their author sheds light on her subject’s formative relate Bodoni to the extensive interest that in the diocese of Liège. Gura gleans from phenomenon in all literate societies with a nineteenth century. Books, pamphlets, defences of their wares, while Chapter period in Rome, where he was working at European collectors showed in his work – manuscripts of commentaries on Ovid written transmission of knowledge. They and images – which were being produced 2 scrutinizes the material circulation of the Propaganda Fide press, from late 1758, in particular, David Stewart Erskine, who (43 BCE-17 CE) the impact of Arnulf of are characterized by a certain degree of in increasing numbers and promiscuously these and others works labelled obszöne und under the patronage of Cardinal Giuseppe commissioned English-language editions Orléans (fl. 1175), a schoolmaster at the standardization and robust survival rates distributed between different jurisdictions unzüchtige. This, for me, was the strongest Spinelli. She then turns to his recruitment, in from Bodoni and marketed these in Great cathedral school of St. Euverte, on the since they provide access to a society’s – were thus subjected to a great deal of and most generative part of the book. 1768, to head up the ducal press at Parma. Britain. While Bodoni is shown to have been reception of the Metamorphoses until the end required reading matter. As Kwakkel scrutiny. A wide range of works, from erotic Leonard argues, compellingly, that obscenity It was at Parma, in a workshop situated in well connected, the extent of his network of the fifteenth century. Kwakkel employs mentions in his introduction, most of the lithographs to cheap pamphlets recounting was not just a matter of words on a page: the palace of the Pilotta, that he would of correspondents cannot be discerned paleography and codicology in order to extant medieval manuscripts of the Latin local horror stories to Boccaccio’s relatively innocent works distributed along produce the works for which he was known in Giambattista Bodoni. At the same time, even identify cost-saving strategies in manuscript classics were copied for use as textbooks in Decameron, were categorized by the police trade routes associated with poverty, crime, throughout eighteenth-century Europe and though Lester introduces the now famous manufacture. He analyzes a small composite the course of formal education (16). From and censors as obszöne und unzüchtige Schriften, and immorality accrued these associations, in particular Italy. These publications, many letter in which Bodoni’s brother, Giuseppe, manuscript (Leiden University Library, the perspective of early twenty-first-century and thus suppressed. while works that might, from their content of which were realized in non-Roman type, as a result of his sibling’s leaving everything MS lat. VLO 92) to describe the use of print and digital cultures, though, the term Much of the book focuses on the alone, be expected to be censored were established his preeminent reputation as the to his wife, accused Giambattista of various parchment waste for the manufacture of ‘textbook’ appears as an anachronism in definitions of obscenity that such authorities often not – due, Leonard suggests, to foremost Italian typographer of his age, even transgressions, she simply notes: “It seems small, low-grade booklets. research on medieval manuscripts; Kwakkel applied, and the views about the relations more favourable trade contexts. This is though he also undertook extensive jobbing that the historians assumed that Giuseppe, The intended readers of this attractively himself only uses the term once (15), and between reading and interior life that not a new idea in obscenity studies, but it printing for the courts of Don Fernando bitterly disappointed by his brother’s will, designed book, which contains almost no it is not included in the index. Textbooks animated them. Chapter 1 examines the is understudied, particularly for the period and, subsequently, Don Ferdinando. was not telling the truth, conveniently typographical errors, are fellow medievalists. are commonly associated with printing, origins of secular obscenity law in the late examined here. By positioning the links that While Giambattista Bodoni introduces Bodoni’s enabling them to disregard his manifesto” It opens with a table of contents (5-6), as economies of scale and the commercial eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In authorities (and presumably other readers) voice through translated text gleaned from his (192). Is Lester suggesting that Giuseppe followed by a list of figures and plates (7- production of standardized texts are this section, Leonard shows how trafficking made between trade contexts and obscenity extensive epistolary correspondence, Lester was telling the truth? Such a suggestion 8), the editor’s preface (9), and a list of important characteristics of print culture. obscenity was positioned in relation to other both as more extensive and as more central also frequently offers asides that express would scratch the patina of the idealized abbreviations (11). The volume concludes Intrepid print historians will enjoy this infractions in various jurisdictions, and how to the practices of censorship than previous her admiration for the typographer, as well Bodoni she has constructed throughout her with notes on the contributors (187- volume as a timely reminder of vigorous obscene works were seen to act on readers scholarship has suggested, Fragile Minds and as a large number of details not only on the narrative. No such questioning of Bodoni’s 189), followed by 22 plates (193-215), a book use in medieval Christian Europe by stirring up excitement and inner disorder Vulnerable Souls takes obscenity studies in a cities where he worked, but also on the food character is introduced, however, as Lester, manuscript index (217-218), and a general before the fifteenth-century advent of – conditions that, many authorities worried, provocative new direction. he consumed. This multifarious and wide- too, disregards the letter by not discussing index (219-224). Full-page black/white letterpress technology, when manuscripts inspired social unrest. Here, as in much of ranging information makes for entertaining it. details of manuscript pages serve as the were not necessarily created as unique the book, Leonard’s evidence is weighted Sarah Bull reading, though the reader cannot help but Readers with little knowledge of Bodoni visual teaser for the introduction (12) and artisanal objects, but also as ordinary, run- toward the Prussian context: throughout, she University of Cambridge wonder whether some streamlining of this and printing history will learn a great deal in the six case studies (22, 53, 77, 107, 130, of-the-mill goods manufactured for the draws on the records of the Prussian Interior additional material would not have allowed Lester’s book; those who read the volume 168). Their captions are found only on the transmission of knowledge. Ministry and the Prussian Censorship Board c the author to provide more discussion on in the hope of finding information that goes list of figures, but neither this list nor the more than the less extensive sources extant why the typographic art of Bodoni was so beyond existing biographies will be better manuscript index includes details such as Dagmar Riedel from other jurisdictions. Because of Prussia’s Valerie Lester. Giambattista Bodoni: His Life remarkable. served by visiting the Museo Bodoniano author names and book titles. Consequently, Columbia University interest in trans-border trade, though, these and His World. Boston: David R. Godine, Lester’s biography of Bodoni is the only in Parma with a view of producing a readers are never told that the volume’s only records reveal a surprising amount about 2015. 280p., ill. ISBN 9781567925289. US modern English-language account of the much-needed critical biography of the figural illustration, which graces the outside c debates surrounding obscenity elsewhere. $40.00 (hardback). typographer. However, the author at no point typographer. covers in color and then reappears in black Subsequent chapters examine the specifies what her intended readership is, and and white at the opening of Kwakkel’s Sarah L. Leonard. Fragile Minds and Vulnerable category of obszöne und unzüchtige Schriften as Eminently readable and informative, this is problematic. Giambattista Bodoni will Sandro Jung introduction (12), is a portrait of the satirist Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth- it was codified in the 1830s and 1840s, Valerie Lester’s handsomely produced appeal to the general reader interested in Ghent University Persius (34-62 CE) from a tenth or eleventh- Century Germany. Philadelphia: University of and reframed after unification in the volume brings to life Giambattista Bodoni the cultural history of printing and that of century Latin miscellany (Leiden BPL 82 fol. Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 272p., ill. ISBN 1860s and 1870s. Chapter 4 traces how (1740-1813) as he progresses as a provincial Italy in the second half of the eighteenth c IV). Because the size of parchment scraps 9780812246704. US $55.00 (hardback). political and sexual print offences gradually printer’s son from an aspiring young man century. The inclusion of a large number matters to Kwakkel’s argument about low- became separate over the century, while keen to be recognized for his skill in the art of illustrations of, among other subjects, Jon A. Lindseth and Alan Tannenbaum, grade codices (118-119), he is the only This finely researched book examines Chapter 5 explores how concerns about of typography to the author of the Manuale historical figures mentioned in the text and eds. Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The author to give manuscript dimensions (108, how obszöne und unzüchtige Schriften [obscene the physiological effects of print on the Tipografico. The manual was an unprecedented samples of Bodoni’s typographical practice Translations of Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece. New 18 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 19

Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 3 vol., owl” (Tajiki, 1985), a “Rose Little” or “little quality paper throughout. A real treat in the with an interest in modernism generally, and it to slip into nationalistic overtones. The Kyiv undoubtedly is. 2635p., ill. ISBN 9781584563310. US clock” (Swedish, 1870 and 2009), a “little first volume is the inclusion of 15 pages of its Eastern European versions in particular, uneasy relations between nationalism and $295.00 (hardback). cup” (Maltese, 2003), a “little bee” (Korean, colour reproductions of cover images for a should read this work, for it challenges pre- socialism, as understood in Ukraine at the Anna Hurina 2005), or a “little cricket” (Gujarati, 1991) number of the translated editions discussed existing notions and redefines key concepts beginning of the twentieth century, underpin Independent Scholar Lewis Carroll was a notoriously – as well as being substituted at times for in the essays that follow. These are very well such as the break from authority, elitist the avant-garde movement and the volume as fastidious author, particularly when it came a “soup in a tiny tin pot” (Ukrainian, 2001) reproduced and give a fascinating visual impulses, fragmentation and ruin, cult a whole, yet each author manages to preserve c to negotiating the afterlife of his Alice books. or a “wide sofa” (German, 1963) – makes overview of the transformations of Alice of technology, urbanism, and alienation. distance in analysis while carefully tracing the From biscuit tins to stage productions, for some curious re-imaginings of the tale. in distinct cultural contexts (or, indeed, All of these familiar concepts are either “palpable national dimension” (118). Thomas McLaughlin. Reading and the Body: Carroll struggled to divest control of Alice’s My personal favourites have to be “Twinkle, her bizarre stasis in some cases). An area inverted or radically re-imagined when It would not be an overestimation to The Physical Practice of Reading. New York: Adventures in Wonderland, and translations twinkle, flittermouse! / I wonder how you of discussion where more might have been placed into Kyivan context. Using theatre, claim that the figure of theatre director and Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x, 208p., ill. of the text were in no way exempt from go so pleasantly!” (Scots, Southeast Central done concerns the illustrative practices with its synthetic nature, as a focal point of actor Les Kurbas dominates the volume and ISBN 9781137541314. US $95. his anxious scrutiny. Yet as Carroll himself dialect, 2011) and “Now you twinkle winged that are hinted at in these colour spreads. condensation for other arts – such as music, defines its logic chronologically, contextually, was no linguist, and thus unable to judge rat, / On what are you so concentrated?” One of the most captivating elements of stage design, costume, dance, painting, and and quantitatively. Seven chapters focus on Reading and the Body is an important the success of a given translation without (Spanish, 2002), both of which, in rather Wonderland’s publishing history concerns even cinematography – the book constructs different stages and angles of his career, addition to studies of the social construction taking advice from others, one might opposing ways, seem to convey a measure the texts’ illustrative history and some of the multi-layered image of a city saturated leaving an uneasy feeling that the remaining of reading practices. It brings together two venture that authorizing non-English of Carroll’s play. the most innovative revisualisations have with joyful experimentation and multi- thirteen are merely there for context important critical traditions that rarely versions of his books constituted one of his In complement to this fascinating accompanied non-English language editions. cultural creativity. setting. Conveniently, Kurbas’s theatrical converse with each other: the history of the more speculative ventures. The continued documentary of translating practices Although a section of the first volume does The 20 chapters of the volume, endeavours involved: choreography, which book and theories of embodiment. Whereas delays in getting early translated editions reverse-engineered, the first volume discuss illustration, including four short interconnected by poetry or insightful was majorly influenced by the brief period the former tends to focus on publics and into press further attest to his anxiety about offers an essay on each of the languages essays that provide a useful overview of excerpts of contemporaneous historical Bronislava Nijinska spent in Kyiv (Chapter counter-publics but overlook the vital role seeing Wonderland refashioned into other represented in back-translation, alongside relevant issues here, it is disappointingly documents, are abundantly illustrated 11); music, which led to the inclusion of the that the body plays in those histories, the tongues. preliminary essays concerning broader concise at only 11 of the more than 700 (including even colour plates) and chapter on musical Modernism as well as one latter often examines subjectivity at the Although Carroll’s direct influence issues, while the third volume comprises a overall essay pages. This is, however, a constitute an engaging discussion to which focused exclusively on music in Kurbas’s expense of the material objects that shape over the transformations and translations checklist of both Wonderland and Looking- minor criticism of a volume that marks some authors contribute historical and theatrical productions (Chapters 12 and 13); conscious experience. Thus, what Reading of Wonderland has long since passed, the Glass in every language for which the an exceptionally fitting and impressive contextual knowledge, while others offer stage and costume design, which brought and the Body proposes is a theory of embodied spectre of the author’s views is likely to lie project team could locate a translation. celebration of Alice in Wonderland’s insightful interpretations and comparative about explorations in the graphic arts (which reading. McLaughlin not only disassembles heavy on the shoulders of those who take Contributors seem to have been given a 150th anniversary and which highlights so overviews. A plethora of Ukrainian authors will be of special interest to the SHARP the traditional mind/body dualism, but also up the mantle. Lindseth and Tannenbaum’s free rein in terms of determining the focus readily the text’s reach and appeal not only who pioneered the research on the avant- News readers) and abstract art (Chapters 6 draws on a wealth of twentieth-century three-volume edition is by far the most of each essay, with foci ranging from the throughout the years but also across the garde in the Soviet Union when it was not and 16); and finally, film which gave readers thinkers – from Merleau-Ponty and Mauss significant analysis of the process of dialogue of the scene, to folkloric aspects of globe. encouraged, to put it mildly, and whose style a chance to familiarize themselves with the to Bourdieu and Foucault – to explore the translating Wonderland (or, so they suspect, the texts or the implications of translating is far removed from the rigorous standards cinematic culture of pre-Revolutionary Kyiv internalized micro-level body habits that any English-language novel). It focuses on the Western, Victorian setting into other Zoe Jaques of academic writing in the English-speaking and Kurbas’s own film debuts (Chapters constitute what it means to read a book. translations in 174 languages and includes cultural contexts. A few of the essays make University of Cambridge world, provide a welcomed reminder of the 5 and 17). Thus Kurbas-centricism is a With chapters on eye movement, bodily essays from 188 scholars across more very little reference to Wonderland, focusing deeply personal and sometimes mundane prominent feature of the volume, which posture, the ritual of reading while eating, than 9,000 editions. The project is an on the source language itself, while others nature of research, of the vulnerability of perhaps would benefit from a more balanced physical spaces of reading, and digital print, extraordinary one, and while the scope and are more directly invested in exploring the c the material, and of the urgency entrusted framework, or a change of the title, for what Reading and the Body examines the embodied pricey nature of the resultant volumes puts cultural and linguistic interplay between into the next generations to preserve it is missing from the abundance of diverse activities, social habits, and physical milieus it out of the reach of a general readership, it Carroll’s text and the dialect. Such variance Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, thorough publications before it disappears material so brilliantly put together is Kyiv that make reading possible and shape represents a highly significant and valuable keeps the essays fresh and distinctive. eds. Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation. physically – as in the case of a newspaper itself. Since Kyiv barely constituted the centre interpretive practice. In so doing it provides work of scholarship. While the work is clearly likely to function Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University archive lost as a result of flooding (139) – of Kurbas’s activities (he arrived there only a novel approach to book history, oriented It is the second volume of Alice in a principally as a reference source for those of Toronto Press, 2015 [reprint]. xxi, 666p., or becomes inaccessible (eg. due to a change in 1916, and then shared his time between around techniques of the body. World of Wonderlands that provides the most interested in particular languages, it is also ill. ISBN 9781442629004. CAD $49.95 in the political orientation of the state, see Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odessa), the city is not as Using a diverse evidentiary archive, fascinating material. The conceit for this eminently readable. The third volume, (paperback). Chapters 5, 6, and 20). strongly present as it could be. Architectural, from personal anecdotes to art installations volume is back-translation, whereby the same perhaps unsurprisingly, is a bit of an The volume as a whole is best photographic, cinematographic, quotidian, and Microsoft Word clipart, Reading and eight pages from Chapter Seven, ‘A Mad exception to this rule but is nevertheless The long-overdue edited volume Modernism characterized by its focus on the word and everyday visions of the city are not the Body makes a compelling case for the Tea-Party,’ are translated back into English an invaluable working source that includes in Kyiv firmly places the Ukrainian capital on “multitude”: the multitude of nationalities analyzed at all, whereas “Kyiv in text” is imbrication of reading and embodiment. from their source language. The sample is bibliographical information for over 7,600 the cultural map of the world and situates (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Jewish, only represented by three novels in which Yet at times such a diverse archive can have well chosen, as the scene offers something editions of Wonderland and 1,500 for Looking- it on the same level as other centres of Georgian, and German) producing it is not explicitly named either – The Pit by the effect of effacing important formal of a concentration of Carroll’s ludic Glass. the avant-garde production such as Paris, cross-fertilizing, enriching, or conflicting Aleksandr Kuprin, The White Guard by and historical distinctions. For instance, in language, humorous distortions of meaning Alice in a World of Wonderlands is a Vienna, London, New York, and Moscow. narratives, all of which fuel the creative Mikhail Bulgakov, and The City by Valerian arguing that “hexis” – socially disciplined and nonsensical parody of verse. The range remarkable achievement and looks the Hitherto categorized under the label of meaning-producing art industries. At Pidmohylny (Chapter 4). However, this bodily techniques – shapes our experience of languages represented is remarkable, and part. While the content is the main prize, it ‘Soviet’ or ‘Russian,’ Kyiv’s contribution the same time, this multitude led to the fact does not at all diminish the relevance and interpretation of a printed text, the comparative nature of the enterprise is also beautifully put together, attuned to to the cultural front at the beginning of the difficulties in pinning down “the definition” and importance of the volume. In fact, one McLaughlin turns to visual representations leads to discoveries arguably as playful as Lewis Carroll’s fastidious standards of book twentieth century was visible only to the and “the identity” of the city (as well as, by can only hope that any future work about of reading: a twentieth-century stock photo Carroll’s text itself. That his twinkling “little production. The volumes are handsomely specialists in the field, but this meticulously and large, the country) throughout history. Kyiv will be treated with the same amount of a woman reading and Pre-Raphaelite bat” could have been reimagined variously bound in blue cloth, ornamented in gold researched and carefully edited volume Hence the reason for Ukraine’s “hyper- of respect for material, breadth of context, painter Marie Spartali Stillman’s portrait of as a green parrot (German, 1869), a “Little with Tenniel’s heraldic white rabbit, with the possesses the power of a manifesto ready sensitized self-awareness” (19), which is thoroughness and originality of research, a woman reading Love Sonnets (1894). To goat” (Yiddish, 2012), a “Little blinking text carefully typeset and printed on high- to proclaim it to a wider audience. Anyone present in each chapter, but never allows and wealth of illustrations as Modernism in treat both images as mere illustrations of 20 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 21 different embodied relationships to reading that transformed Americans’ understanding an admission of guilt. The onslaught of non-metropolitan readers, and positions of ‘world literature.’ There is also an accessible century. Harvey Ross describes libraries is to elide differences in form, artistic intent, of race. attacks on the authenticity of Roots endured, lay reading and professional reading as overview of their research methodology in in New Zealand and Australia from first and commercial purpose, as well as their Norrell devotes a small section of but Haley moved on to produce another distinctive social formations that are an appendix, which would serve well as a encounters with British settlers in 1788 to respective historical and cultural contexts. the first chapter to Haley’s childhood in successful television miniseries, Roots: The informed by ideas of location and place, course reading in reception studies. the present. Finally, in just 19 pages, Marija Placing the Victorian portrait in the context Henning, Tennessee. Despite the fact Next Generations. However, many of his later realism, and the literary marketplace. Each Dalbello considers “digital convergence” of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century that both of his parents were professors, productions had only limited success. subsequent chapter takes up these themes, DeNel Rehberg Sedo touching upon early catalogs, computational vogue for paintings of women reading books Haley was a mediocre student and had no Despite the accusations of plagiarism concluding with an illustrative case study of Mount Saint Vincent University projects, and the semantic web and digital might have illuminated the gendered nature academic ambitions. He wanted to be a that may have hurt Haley’s legacy, Norrell’s readers’ complex voices. collaboration. of certain kinds of reading. If, as feminist writer, but it was not until he enlisted in plea for the public to remember Haley’s Chapter 2, ‘Professional and Lay c This concise history of librarianship philosopher Iris Marion Young famously the Coast Guard (working as a cook) that great contribution to American culture is Readers,’ uses the talk about Chinua does not include South and Central argued in her essay “Throwing Like a Girl,” he began to hone his storytelling skills. In genuine and heartfelt. This is a compelling Achebe’s 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart, Pamela Spence Richards, Wayne A. Wiegand, America, Asia, the Middle East, and Central phenomenology posits a universal body that the next few chapters, Norrell skillfully biography of an author who played a major to illustrate that professional and non- and Marija Dalbella, eds. A History of Modern Asia or India. There is scant mention of is implicitly masculine, might the same go weaves together Haley’s struggles to make role in changing American race relations, and professional readers respond to social power Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of museums, archives, or historical societies for embodied reading? In other words, does a living as a hustling journalist with the Norrell presents Haley’s life with sensitivity inequities through their own conventions. Western Culture. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries even though these cultural heritage art history bear out a cultural investment in development of his collaboration with and sympathy. The book provides both a That is, reading is not “…straightforwardly Unlimited, 2015. 248p., notes, bibliographies, institutions develop side by side with “reading like a girl”? In this way, attention Malcolm X. Haley eventually became a multidimensional portrait of the author and subjective, but becomes operative and index. ISBN 9781610690997. US $60.00. libraries and librarianship. There is little to the formal and historical components of star journalist interviewing celebrities, but a well-supported argument about the power meaningful through the institutions, genres comparison or discussion of cross-influence the archive that Reading and the Body presents it was the publication of The Autobiography of his texts as “books that changed a nation.” and ways of speaking, communities and This broad study focuses on the history across continents and oceans. Regardless of might have yielded a fuller account of what of Malcolm X that put him on the map in regimes of value that shape reading both and development of librarianship and this compartmentalization, the authors do body, whose body, is reading. academia, where he became a well-paid Linda Isaac inside and outside the academy” (50). libraries in the nineteenth and twentieth make efforts to describe cross-influence Reading and the Body is perhaps most lecturer at various colleges. Norrell’s rich, University of Miami The groups who took part in the study centuries. Five scholars contribute a chapter and connections between librarians and generative when, in the final chapter, detailed research on Haley’s professional c transverse four continents, so Procter and each: about Europe; the United States and their respective institutions within each it considers the bodily habits of digital and personal relationship with Malcolm X Benwell are able to interrogate the complex Canada; Africa; Australasia; and digital continent. reading, which is frequently associated with presents a fascinating and fast-paced read. role that location has in metropolitan and convergence. Originally conceived by Pamela The History of Modern Librarianship is a disembodiment and abstraction. Through Haley’s propensity to start another James Procter and Bethan Benwell. Reading non-metropolitan readerships. Chapter 3, Spence Richards, the project was revitalized welcome addition to the history of libraries rigorous engagement with contemporary project before finishing the project at hand Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and ‘Remote Reading,’ illustrates that readers by Wayne Wiegand. The primary audience is and librarianship from the late 1700s to theorists like Katherine Hayles, McLaughlin perpetually placed him in financial trouble. the Reception of Difference. New York: Palgrave, consistently use their own location in textual library and information science students and present. Each chapter stands alone. This shows how the “cybernetic desire for One of those projects was Roots (originally 2015. xiv, 274p. ISBN 9781137276391. US meaning-making – that is, readers “read beginning historians of libraries across the book replaces the later chapters of Michael transcendence of the body is…undercut titled Before This Anger), which he began $95.00. in terms of roots as much as routes” (97). globe. Harris’s History of Libraries of the Western World by procedural embodiment” (171). In this while still working on The Autobiography. Chapter 4, ‘Reading and Realism,’ challenges The book covers three major (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995) and elegantly schematic chapter, McLaughlin Norrell devotes the remaining chapters to Scholars and students of reading history heretofore one-dimensional definitions of ‘evolutionary changes’ within the profession Fred Lerner’s Libraries through the Ages (New emphasizes the “hyperextensivity,” personal Haley’s research and development of Roots and practices have a significant new resource “the reader” by showing that location plays [xvi]: (1) How librarianship evolved to serve York: The Continuum Publishing Company, desires, interactivity, and writerliness that and the controversies surrounding it. Haley in Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book a large role in how readers interpret and an urbanized, industrialized society in the 1999). Wiegand and his fellow contributors characterize the reader’s bodily relationship spent more than eleven years completing Groups and the Reception of Difference. An articulate “reality.” Chapter 5, ‘Reading and nineteenth century; (2) the Anglo-American bring to the profession a textbook that to digital text (172). Reading and the Body is an Roots, including multiple trips to Africa impressive large-scale, multi-year, and the Literary Marketplace,’ demonstrates that hegemony that spread from England and wraps librarianship into the history of important contribution to book history, as it and various national archives. Roots was a transnational study of book club talk, it readers are suspicious of literary “hype,” America to continental Europe, Russia, and libraries, following a chronological timeline. theorizes bodies that shape and are shaped personal journey for Haley, who sought provides us with a credible, intellectually and explains the gulf between ordinary the rest of the world, most especially upon The brief concluding chapter on the by material objects – from print media to to trace his ancestors back to their African rigorous account of reading reception. readers and the literary establishment, who librarians in Australasia and Africa; (3) the information age foreshadows the next step digital media, from the codex to the Kindle. origins and tell their stories. The book is an ethnographic study of blame each other for the commodification shift to providing information through high- in librarianship as it evolves to incorporate Norrell presents Haley as a great 30 different international book clubs’ talk, of literature. Chapter 6, ‘Reading as a Social tech tools, digitization, and the Internet. information professionals. Erica Fretwell storyteller who always struggled to get the recorded and analyzed during the first decade Practice: Race Talk,’ deploys close linguistic In the four main chapters, each author University at Albany, SUNY words on paper. This may explain Haley’s of this century. Book clubs were recruited to analysis to demonstrate that readers use presents the history of librarianship on their Miriam Kahn dependence on Murray Fisher, who became read and discuss White Teeth (2000) by Zadie language they know is “common-sense anti- continent through the many individuals Kent State University c Haley’s personal editor. In Norrell’s account, Smith, Brick Lane (2003) by Monica Ali, and racist” (202) to adhere to the norms of their who influenced the development of the Fisher played a major role in making Haley Small Island (2004) by Andrea Levy, because groups, and that they continuously negotiate profession. This first chapter by Peter Hoare c Robert J. Norrell. Alex Haley and the Books one of the most famous writers in the these novels “have found highly receptive meanings through this talk. is a sweeping history of the profession in That Changed a Nation. New York: St. country. (and highly critical) readers among both Procter and Benwell illustrate well Europe. Beginning before the Public Library Vanessa Meikle Schulman. Work Sights: Martin’s Press, 2015. x, 251p., ill. ISBN Despite immense book sales and the professional and lay audiences” (11). Other through accessible writing and useful Acts of 1850 in Great Britain, this compact The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth- 9781137279606. US $27.00 (hardback). popularity of the television miniseries of novels found their way into the project as theorizing the role of reading in a post-9/11 history incorporates the rise of the Bibliothèque Century America. Amherst and Boston: Roots, Haley became the center of a legal book club or mass reading event selections. world. They rightly argue that their study nationale de France after the French Revolution University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. xi, It is difficult to believe that this is the battle brought by Harold Courlander, who Based on the close reading and analysis of is unique in that it involved “comparative and the British Museum. In the second and 278p., ill. ISBN 9781625341952. US $29.95 first biography of Alex Haley, the author claimed Haley plagiarized from his earlier hundreds of hours of recorded book talk, emphasis on a series of geographically longest chapter, Wayne Wiegand takes on (paperback). who wrote perhaps the two most influential published book, The African. Haley settled Procter and Benwell organized the book dispersed, ethnically diverse texts, and the rise of libraries in North America from books on African-American history in the the case out of court by paying Courlander into six thematic chapters. readers viewed within transnational circuits their founding, but particularly from 1800 With strong opinions of belonging and twentieth century. Robert Norrell skillfully an unspecified amount. Although Haley The stand-alone introduction historicizes of exchange and consumption” (1). It is to the present. Anthony Olden focuses his citizenship motivating current debates on examines the extraordinary achievements of claimed to have settled out of fear of what a the study in the wake of September also unique in its careful attention to the chapter on libraries founded by Africans immigration reform and global economics, the enigmatic man behind Roots (1976) and long legal battle would do to his reputation, 11, discusses the selected novels as distinctions between professional and non- and Muslims before and during the colonial Vanessa Schulman’s Work Sights: The The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), books the settlement was widely interpreted as “metropolitan” novels being read by professional readers’ textual interpretations period through the end of the twentieth Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century 22 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 23

America proves timely, providing useful reinforced the virtues of hard work and to book-historical scholarship, emerges unfortunate sobriquet, Henry IV of Castile, Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom, eds. medieval encyclopedias from the twelfth historical context through which we can industry, whether it be a map of Georgia’s out of its two central propositions: often great-grandson of John of Gaunt and half- Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and century onwards, and how texts themselves understand the ways that these concepts post-Civil War rail lines or a woodcut a play’s title can be read as a document uncle of Catherine of Aragon, but he is able, Order in Medieval Manuscripts. Philadelphia: organised navigation on the page and were shaped and circulated in nineteenth- engraving of prison inmates in an orderly of performance (cum Tiffany Stern), and from the full title, to present a solid case for Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript through a book. After Charles Burnett’s century America. The “Work Sights” of the line. even a partial or a non-authorial title can ascribing the play to William Rowley, putting Studies / University of Pennsylvania Press, treatment of Latin manuscript traditions title suggests the “sights” of labor to which Concluding with a consideration of the signal elements of a play’s story, if not it in the Prince’s Men’s repertory, and giving 2015. x, 162p., 18 colour, 9 b/w ill. ISBN of scientific Arabic texts, Katherine Breen Americans were exposed, as well as the shift from wood engraving to the halftone particular plot devices, historical period, and it an approximate date of composition in 9780812247596. US $45.00 / UK £29.50. again links readerly engagement with more ways that Americans perceived that work. process in the 1890s, Schulman demonstrates location; and the new research approaches the mid-1610s (after England’s notorious extra-textual activity in her substantial essay By examining the portrayals of technology that the technology of visual representation encouraged by lookups on EEBO- impotence sex-scandal of Frances Howard This book assembles a short collection on the organisational unit of Langland’s and labor in both fine art and periodical informed Americans’ interpretations of TCP and Google Books (spelling-normalized and Robert Devereux). of essays broadly relating to the different Piers Plowman: the passus or “step.” Piers was a illustrations produced between 1857 and technology itself. While nineteenth-century queries, dictionary files, proximity operators, Most brilliantly, this book offers some ways in which knowledge in the medieval poem to be walked, rather than sung or read, 1887, Schulman demonstrates that these illustrators never imagined themselves to be wildcards, and truncation) ought to be very clever approaches for reconstructing world was organised and classified in and it is argued, and Breen brilliantly locates the visual representations fostered divergent, rendering statements of fact through their paired up with the documentary evidence at the use of historical stage properties, an by manuscripts and book-collecting culture. complex itinerary of the work to allegorical yet interrelated notions of American wood engravings of work sights, halftone hand (the disembodied titles) to substantiate aspect of performativity that is generally Starting life as papers presented at an annual and pictorial representations of vices and nationalism and its correlation with labor technology represented a demand for digital searching as a valid, if frequently overlooked due to the authorial habit of Schoenberg symposium on manuscript virtues in earlier medieval devotional and technology. truthfulness in representation. For instance, unexamined, Digital Humanities subfield. noting minimal direction in performance studies at the University of Pennsylvania, texts. Sara S. Poor closes the collection Schulman points to two related the wood engravings that Schulman Steggle proceeds to make this case with texts. In supposing the play recorded as the volume functions as something of a with an essay on the organisation of a phenomena in the 1850s that accelerated characterizes as “the managerial eye” did a body of evidence from three historical “bellendon” to be, in actuality, a dramatic festschrift for the founder of Penn Libraries’ fifteenth-century legendary (Nuremberg, changes in Americans’ lived experiences not aim to present a literal view of industrial sources in mind: the collection of account account of the life and death of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Germanisches Nationalmuseum MS 2261), during the time period 1857-1887. The production, but rather represent the orderly records, property costs, and play investments infamous “Belin Dun” (Dunstable, England; the late Lawrence J. Schoenberg, and it and guidance given to its readers by the advent of illustrated periodicals such as expertise required of a manager. And while kept by the theatrical entrepreneur and 13th century?), a robber, viciously executed, offers six complementary approaches to compiler, an Augustinian nun, Anna Eybin. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in 1855 and halftone photographic representations were impresario Philip Henslowe, informally known for evading capture through how manuscript evidence may be used The manuscript and essay offer a valuable Harper’s Weekly in 1857, along with the first inferior in quality, their indexical quality was known as Henslowe’s Diary; the licencing underground tunnels, Steggle clarifies that a to provide insights on the ways in which case study of the relationship between attempts to lay a suboceanic transatlantic more appealing to late nineteenth-century records for legalized performance in England property entry in Henslowe’s Diary, one for literary, scientific, geographic, devotional, editorial practice and the devotional, telegraph cable, “combined to create a audiences. between 1623 and 1673, maintained by “Belendon stable,” denotes a representation and hagiographic knowledge was categorised instrumental operations of a book. world more saturated with inexpensive and Despite little attention to these George Buck and Henry Herbert, Masters of a subterranean hideout, not a table (77- and interpreted in the later Middle Ages. Just Taken as a whole, this modestly sized readily available information and images” nineteenth-century images among art of the Revels, known as Herbert’s Office 88; esp. 87). how did medieval readers use manuscripts to volume combines manuscript-specific (4). While acknowledging that Americans historians today, Work Sights reveals Book (reconstructed from isolated, surviving Similarly, by showing that a bizarre, access, process, and analyse information, and discussion with more wider-ranging reacted to this networked world with the “visual vocabulary that stressed the fragments); and the Stationers’ Registers, of illegible entry in Henslowe, “Albere how does the physical, material organisation thematic and formal studies, and also offers ambivalence, Schulman sets out to study centrality of labor as a core American value which no introduction is required for readers Galles,” refers to a siege play of the city of a book effect and affect that? engaging contributions to Chaucer and the tensions that emerged as a result: a and a prerequisite for proper citizenship” of SHARP News. Investigating, through of Székesfehérvár (Latin place name, Elizaveta Strakhov’s essay opens the Langland studies. This collection will be celebration of an orderly, standardized (194). This visual rhetoric, as Schulman’s close readings, 10 such titles, he effectively Alberegalis), Steggle elucidates the otherwise- collection and examines a manuscript of of interest to SHARP members working world that technological innovation study indicates, has powerfully influenced demonstrates a number of prior occasions disconnected prop-purchases that Henslowe French lyric verses held at the University of in western medieval manuscript studies, promised, alongside a fear of the disastrous enduring notions of technology and its of reductive or erroneous “lumping,” made immediately before, and around the Pennsylvania (MS Codex 902) that contains and in particular to those interested in the potential of new technologies. Schulman centrality to American national identity. “splitting,” or the creation of “ghost plays,” time of, the title-entry (101-17; esp. 110- a number marked in the text “Ch,” which technologies of the book, and how textual analyzes a range of images produced during for which modern search tools provide 12). In retrospect, Henslowe’s purchases of some commentators conjectured could and paratextual matter not only presents but these three decades that embody and create Carrie Johnston better answers. lances, a flag, and several other items, serve signify Chaucerian authorship. Strakhov produces knowledge. those tensions while also discussing the Wake Forest University For example, Steggle shows that Richard to justify Steggle’s ingenious interpretation. looks beyond authorship to generic interpretive decisions made by artists and the Confessor is a saints play rather than a royal In short, Steggle’s monograph is a taxonomy for a more accurate (if perhaps Matthew Woodcock illustrators in depicting the sights and sites c history play, despite the title’s appearance in keenly-argued, rigorously-researched study, – for Chaucerians – less exciting) answer. University of East Anglia of work in the mid-nineteenth century. Henslowe above “William the Conqueror” advocating and demonstrating how to Formal similarities indicating a preference Close reading both factual and imaginative Matthew Steggle. Digital Humanities and (43-60). He determines this to be the case use emergent technologies, and growing for reading rather than singing unites these c visual representations of technology – often the Lost Drama of Early Modern England: Ten owing to the result frequency of “Richardi textual repositories of searchable plays, to lyrics, and provide in miniature an index of within a single image – Schulman provides Case Studies. Farnham, UK; Burlington, confessi” and similar collocations on EEBO. answer age-old questions about particular the shift towards a more literary than aural G. Thomas Tanselle. Portraits & Reviews. a compelling historical account of the VT: Ashgate, 2015. x, 200p., ill. ISBN From here he is able to localize the drama to lost plays. Although many of its examples culture for this work. The question of how Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society time period under consideration through a 9781409444145. US $110.00 (hardback). the region where Richard lived (Chichester, are esoteric – a testament to Steggle’s to “place” poetic works within a collection, of the University of Virginia, 2015. 485p. formalist art historical approach. Looking at West Sussex, England) and to historicize it exceptional knowledge of his subject and how to make sense of that placement, ISBN 9781883631161. $55.00. John Ferguson Weir’s oil paintings, The Gun In Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama within the epoch of that Richard’s life (c. matter – its methodologies, and underlining is also the subject of Mary Franklin-Brown’s Foundry and Forging the Shaft, for instance, of Early Modern England: Ten Case Studies, 1197-1253). philosophical assumptions of the powers discussion of how medieval Scholastic Many years ago, as I sat in my first Schulman coins the term “alchemical Matthew Steggle applies his characteristic Another great example is that of the play and relevancies of searching, are universal. compilers went about defining poetics in bibliography class taught by Donald sublime” to describe the ways that depictions talent for original argument and detailed formerly known as Henry the Una (c. 1619), Read what Steggle has to say, more than relation to other disciplines – be it grammar, Krummel at the University of Illinois, I of industrial interiors create a unique brand research, well established through his studies and which now, thanks to Steggle, can be once. rhetoric, logic, or philosophy. Geography skimmed the semester’s assigned reading of the American technological sublime to of dramatic personation (1998) and Richard properly titled Henry the Unable (119-32). is the subject of Alfred Hiatt’s wonderfully and a few familiar names caught my eye: evoke feelings of uncertainty, fear, and awe. Brome (2004), to yet another area, lost plays. Steggle recognizes “Henry the Una” as a Joshua J. McEvilla illustrated treatment of how the medieval Fredson Bowers, Philip Gaskell, D. F. On the other hand, popular press illustrators He considers the new resources that we can truncated title from a charred leaf of paper Independent Scholar chronicle and encyclopedia genres attempted McKenzie. However, another name really under pressure to produce celebratory, pro- use to reconstruct the principal features of originating from Herbert’s lost Office Book. In to contain and represent the world in a book. grabbed hold of my curiosity: G. Thomas business images portrayed what Schulman their plots and staging. this exceptional case, Steggle is not only able c We see, for example, how visual mapping Tanselle. Not from recognizing his name, terms “technological systems” in ways that The study’s brilliance, and relevance to identify the historical personage of that complemented textual representation in but because of the sheer volume of articles 24 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 25 listed on the syllabus. I was intrigued. The Joseph Viscomi, plus several bibliographies, Fergusson, and Frances Burney revisit and thoughts and actions (112). Noggle then to showcase these developments, and to conscientious objectors. In some instances, bibliography offered a window into the lives bibliographical reference works, books on reconsider themes of literary sensibility provides a thought-provoking discussion highlight transnational and interdisciplinary cultural variants may be traced in the study of book collectors, booksellers, and authors. book collecting, and scholarly editions. and the formation of moral character. of sensibility and its relationship with affect approaches. Though no single volume of a single figure. Shafquat Towheed’s deft After reading a number of these intimate In reading these personalized snapshots, Rounce discusses the synergetic relationship theory, and traces uses of “insensible” and can claim to be representative of the many examination of Edith Wharton’s wartime portraitures, I was hooked. there is no doubt that Tanselle thoroughly between emotional response and literary “insensibly” in Eliza Haywood’s The Female possible modes and contexts of reading, reading dwells on her transnationalism In Portraits & Reviews, Tanselle brings enjoyed his work. Academic libraries celebrity, and illustrates how Boswell, in Life Spectator, Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral this book offers an excellent range of and her deep love of German literature. together a sampling of some of the that focus on the book and scholars in of Johnson and Lives of the Poets, constructs his Sentiments, and Edward Gibbon’s The History perspectives, touching on British, French, Wharton’s judgments on both literary and biographical sketches and reviews that he bibliographical and related fields will find own ethos as a man of feeling. Brown next of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Belgian, German, Italian, American, and political writings may in turn be juxtaposed wrote between 1959 and 2015. Split into this a strong addition to their collections. analyzes Fergusson’s interest in Scotland’s He evaluates how Haywood, Smith, and Australian experiences. Essays here reflect to the retrospective dimension of Ford two parts, the first section features portraits, For those of us working in the discipline, it much-romanticized historical past, his Gibbons respectively use “insensibly” as an an increased interest in the common reader Maddox Ford’s engagement with books. In and the second features reviews. The book is is a reminder of the groundbreaking work reactions to the nation’s Enlightenment unconscious cultivation of the mind, as a – both editors work on the Reading Experience a particularly suggestive piece of analysis, organized chronologically to reflect when the done by many before us; and for up-and- present, and his opposition to extremes of subconscious comprehension of moral rules, Database, which captures encounters with Max Saunders describes how Ford’s piece was first published (with the exception coming scholars, it offers an intimate look sensibility. She further traces Fergusson’s and as a sign that historical transformations print that cross the boundaries of gender, accounts of his own war experiences are of one new entry – Floyd Dell). Tanselle at some of the most important people who journey to find his own authorial voice while provoke emotional responsiveness class, age, and ethnicity. displaced onto memories of reading. This admits that he has chosen these selections committed themselves to advancing the field experimenting with both neoclassical and (129, 131-32, 141). Gottlieb concludes One of the key strengths of this book complex intermingling of experience and based on his personal interests, providing of bibliography and who helped to shape vernacular verse (27-28). King concludes the collection with a critical discussion is the evident care with which it has been imagination animates the collection as a us with yet another intimate snapshot of his this scholarly genre. with her analysis of visual representations about William Wordsworth’s interest in conceived and edited. The volume comprises whole, making this not just a gathering of career. of female virtue and moral influence in natural philosophy and exploration of 12 essays; these are arranged in themed pairs, scholarly perspectives, but a testament to In his preface, Tanselle notes that he Ethan A. Henderson Burney’s Cecilia and Camilla, persuasively the relationship between the poet and each starting a conversation that explores the interdependence of all acts of wartime chose the two genres for their concentration Georgetown University showing how Burney interrogates ideas subject-objects. He further examines both familiar concerns within book history, while reading, politically and culturally. on the biographical aspects of the subject, c about bodies and speech as instruments of Wordsworth’s use of the undefined “thing” also offering new perspectives on areas such and that “taken together, they show how power. in his works as quasi-mystical and how as genre fiction, newspapers, young readers, Lucy Collins a biographical approach can serve to Peggy Thompson, ed. Beyond Sense and Part two offers knowledge about Humean and Hartleian ideas about sensation and private collections. The introduction is University College Dublin characterize a whole field – in this case, Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary didactic sensibility, as Christopher Johnson, influenced LyricalBallads (145-46, 149-51). especially impressive, not only in synthesizing the world of books and bibliographical and Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth. Leslie Chilton, and Adrienne Wadewitz In all, I commend the authors and some of the debates that will be explored later c textual scholarship (xi).” Because the various Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, explore literature as a mode for teaching their thought-provoking chapters, and in detail, but in re-evaluating the field itself, writings were published over years in a range 2015. xv, 213p., ill. ISBN 9781611486407. moral character. Johnson examines how recommend Beyond Sense and Sensibility to and delineating the resources now available Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines. Apocalyptic of journals, a reader doesn’t always have the US $90.00 (hardcover). Philip Doddridge’s funeral sermon for anyone interested in the study of sensibility for scholars of the history of reading in Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the full context but aggregates the pieces into Colonel James Gardiner presented him as a and British literature. Narrowly, the book this period. The role of letters and diaries World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript. Leiden a history shaped by “life stories and critical What first drew me to this superb sentimental hero whose moral qualities could would attract scholars whose research in describing acts of reading is well known and Boston: Brill, 2015. ix, 25p., ill. ISBN assessments.” collection was its promise that it would teach a receptive audience how to correctly interests align with sensibility and but, explored in tandem with the records of 9789004304536. €135.00 (hardcover). The 28 portraits comprise narratives explore complex issues of sensibility and act and convey emotion. Chilton next sentimentality in British literature, didactic publishers, booksellers, and libraries, these of, or tributes to, collectors, booksellers, morality in eighteenth-century British considers how Tobias Smollett adapts the literature and moral formation, and the personal documents permit a new picture of This book focuses on a manuscript librarians, scholarly editors, bibliographers, literature. Beyond Sense and Sensibility does moral didacticism of François Fénelon’s The construction of moral character both the distribution and consumption of print to in the Huntington Library, located in publishers, authors, literary and historical not disappoint, offering authoritative and Adventures of Telemachus for The Expedition of within text and without. The authors not emerge. The war as an occasion for print is San Marino, California (Ms HM 83), an scholars. While they all capture the compelling chapters about how emotional Humphry Clinker. Chilton’s recovery work only contribute to the current discourse also explored. As the introduction notes, a unstudied fifteenth-century German codex personality of the individual, some of these receptivity and moral sense appear and of Telemachus and Clinker is not so much a about the sensibility aesthetic and its many ban on journalists visiting the front in France that contains not only the largest but also the portraits are reminiscent of obituaries evolve from the middle 1700s to the turn of comparative analysis, but rather introduces transformations in literature, but they also led to a higher involvement of soldiers in most curious collection of mappaemundi in that survey a lifespan, while others have a the nineteenth century. both texts as exemplars of moral instruction. emphasize the importance of sensibility as producing journals and newspapers there. any one document. After describing HM 83 more singular focus on a subject. Figures The introduction and nine critical essays Wadewitz similarly examines Charlotte a powerful foundation for identity creation. The distinction between the reading in the first chapter, the authors, Chet Van represented include Sue Allen, Fredson in this volume explicate the influence that Smith’s abolitionist children’s literature as experiences of combatants and those of Duzer and Ilya Dines, discuss the historical Bowers, John Carter, Floyd Dell, Nancy sensibility and rationality had upon authors cultivating moral sense in young readers. Luke A. Iantorno non-combatants is one that might have context of fifteenth-century Lübeck, very Hale, Harrison Horblit, Vera Lawrence, and their readers. In her introduction to She illustrates how Smith both criticizes Texas Tech University received greater emphasis, given the dialogic likely the hometown of this manuscript Ruth Mortimer, Gordon Ray, and William the collection, Peggy Thompson divides British civilization built upon the slave trade c form of the collection. Women’s reading (Chapter 2). Subsequently, they identify Scheide among many others. the book into three parts (“Revisiting and instructs her audience to become feeling is comparatively under-represented, which the anonymous author, who can now The Reviews section consists of 42 pieces, Sensibility,” “Rethinking Didacticism,” and citizens in an un-feeling world (94-95). Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. may reflect a disparity in the available be regarded as one of the most original mostly book reviews, but also some responses “Reframing the Questions”) that delineate For part three, Peggy Thompson, King, eds. Reading and the First World War: resources. Sara Mori notes that some cartographers of the fifteenth century, as to essays, introductions to anthologies, the relationship between sensibility and James Noggle, and Evan Gottlieb critique Readers, Texts, Archives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Florentine intellectuals saw the increased Baptista, a man appointed by Pope Pius II and retrospective assessments. Among subjectivity. Unlike other recent studies Enlightenment-era moral formation Macmillan, 2015. xi, 266p., ill. ISBN presence of women in their library as to take care of pilgrims such as the traveller these are discussions of bibliographical in the field, the book will also prove and its creation of ostensible moral 9781137302700. £55.00 (hardback). evidence of cultural decline. Gender norms Felix Fabri at the Franciscan monastery on classics by Philip Gaskell, D.F. McKenzie, beneficial to evolving discourse about affect creatures. Thompson explains how Samuel are challenged in unexpected ways, though, Mount Zion (Chapter 3). Interestingly, Van Paul Needham, Allan Stevenson, and theory and thing theory. Ultimately, Beyond Johnson’s Rambler essays emphasize reason, The history of reading in the First World most memorably in Jane Potter’s intriguing Duzer and Dines focus their attention on the David Vander Meulen, as well as reviews Sense and Sensibility will aid researchers in not emotion, as a practical guide for moral War is an area of particular significance account of the popularity of romance novels parts containing maps, which correspond to of works by other major scholars such as understanding the broader implications of living. She further appraises the ways in which in this commemorative period. It has among soldiers. The locus of reading is the last two as well as the longest chapters Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Anthony emotion, moral formation, and identity. Johnson instructs his readers to overcome benefited from a conjunction of archival often important: Edmund G. C. King and in the manuscript: a geographical treatise Grafton, and David McKitterick. Also In part one, Adam Rounce, Rhona habit and emotion in the formation of a and digital projects that makes new accounts Catherine Feely offer two distinct forms (ff. 1r-8r) and a section with material on discussed are books by Nicholson Baker, Brown, and Heather King respectively so-called “moral” identity, thus allowing and resources available to scholars across of contained reading experience – those astronomy and geography (ff. 13r-18r) are William A. Jackson, Larry McMurtry, and examine how James Boswell, Robert uninterrupted reason to direct one’s the world. This collection of essays seeks of Australian prisoners of war and British analyzed in Chapter 4; and an account of 26 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 27 the Apocalypse (ff. 8v-12v) is examined in this unique cartographical collection. that explores the ethics and politics of answers. We would acknowledge variant following the 1642 theater ban. Willie employs wars in comic mode: Tatham’s The Rump Chapter 5. denigrated copies (the cloned children) and editions of novels; we would be more aware Thomas Nashe’s term “paper stage” – first (1660), Howard’s The Commitee (1663), and Apart from offering a detailed description Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez cherished individuals/originals. Translation of historical changes to language and among coined in his preface to Sidney’s Astrophil and Lacy’s The Old Troop (1664). Willie reveals of each of the maps, and including Latin Museo Cartográfico Juan de la Cosa “allows the author to consider how the languages; we might expand senses of Stella (1591) for poetry that functions at the that Restoration comedy was more focused transcriptions and translations into English logic of individuality has shaped both the citizenship, affiliation, and belonging. Born borders of dramatic and literary cultures – to on reinventing the previous thirty-year civil with comments on the most relevant c politics of imperialism and the politics of Translated argues that books create audiences argue that commonwealth plays, though not war period than on marking a new period. A excerpts, this monograph pertinently art, and indeed also to think about how and alternative affiliations; translations performed, were nonetheless written with a short epilogue examines several post-1688 addresses the uses of maps, a fundamental Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Born Translated: claims for art’s uniqueness have served, enhance possibilities of meaning and making. theatre-literate public in mind and offered plays that treat the death of Charles I in light subject in the history of cartography and The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World rather than blocked imperialism” (95). The In the midst of virally resurgent nativisms “an abstract public space where social and of the deposition of James II. one that also interested the author of HM Literature. New York: Columbia University authors examined in Born Translated include and ethnocentric nationalisms, these fluid political concerns may be articulated and Despite the book’s title, the focus in 83 (it is discussed on ff. 48-58 in the book). Press, 2015. 336p., ill. ISBN 9780231165945 writers from formerly colonized countries: modes of reading-in-translation might make fictionalised” (28). While Chapter One lays Staging the Revolution is less on staging than it The co-authors also invite us to consider (cloth). US $40.00. Jamaica Kincaid, Meena Alexander, Moshin worldly receptivity something more socially the theoretical groundwork for this claim, is on reinventing drama in mid-seventeenth- the existence of thematic mapping before Hamid, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; significant than the mere consumption of drawing on the ideas of Jürgen Habermas and century England on both page and stage as the seventeenth century, a period accepted Rebecca Walkowitz’s conceptually writers from settler colonial countries like cosmopolitan style. Hannah Arendt, Chapter Two turns to select playwrights reacted to changing political by specialists as instrumental in the rise ambitious, provocative, and deftly argued J. M. Coetzee; and a range of English, play pamphlets that depict Oliver Cromwell and theatrical circumstances. Willie’s close of this genre (80-93). Van Duzer and book, Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel American, ethnic, and international writers Mia Carter and Charles I either at a fair or in the afterlife. textual analyses, although occasionally Dines navigate with ease throughout the in an Age of World Literature, examines the who incorporate into their fictions a global University of Texas at Austin For Willie, these real and imagined “public” overwhelmed by a surfeit of details and cartographic context that frames the maps evolution of the novel genre, the global postmodern consciousness, an awareness of spaces consigned discord to the fairground comparisons, reveal complex and plausible featured in this manuscript and, clearly, marketability of Anglophone writers, and English as a world force and, potentially, as c and historicized the civil wars from the interpretations that place the plays and they devoted considerable efforts to finding the significance of acts of translation in an engine of migrant communications and purview of the afterlife. Although they performances in their rich historical context. the textual and iconographical sources of the current production, distribution, and proliferating translations (Junot Díaz, David Rachel Willie. Staging the Revolution: Drama, produced reductive, oppositional images of The first two chapters on print culture HM 83. As a result, these authors are in a consumption of literature. Walkowitz frames Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, China Miéville, Reinvention and History, 1647-72. Manchester: Charles I and Cromwell – as saint and devil will be of particular interest to SHARP position to assert that, apart from the codex the study in the long history of the novel Amy Waldman). Manchester University Press, 2015. xi, 242p., respectively – the play pamphlets also offered members, while the book overall will be at the Huntington Library, there was also and its global circulation. In the twenty- The philosophical and ideological 4 b/w ill. ISBN 9780719087639. UK £70.00 readers both “a way of processing collective of interest to anyone working in drama, a lost autograph manuscript (58). In fact, first century, simultaneous translations implications of writing, publishing, (hardcover). grief and staging reconciliation” (66), and a theater, pamphlet culture, and history of the they succeeded in finding another copy and digitization have accelerated the translating, and consuming novels, and of liminal space in which to reconceive kingship. seventeenth century. with maps, now at Wolfenbüttel, Herzog creation of many books out of one, thereby recognizing writing itself as translation are Rachel Willie’s splendid study of theater Chapter Three turns to performance with August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 442 Helmst., complicating the very notion of the original, potentially transformative. The chapter in England from 1647 to 1672 opens with a William Davenant’s refashioning of Stuart Cecilia Feilla a discovery that demonstrates that the work as well as readers’ sense of the writer’s ‘Sampling, Collating, and Counting’ tantalizing anecdote: in May 1645, Colonel court masque for the protectorate stage, and Marymount Manhattan College circulated and underwent revision (196-218). “native tongue,” and their own. Walkowitz accentuates the future possibilities of a Blunt of the parliamentarian army mounted James Shirley’s Cupid and Death (1653), based This study makes a significant recognizes English as world language; comparative literature that emphasizes a performance of the civil wars in order to on John Ogilby’s translation of Aesop’s E-Resource Reviews contribution not only to the history of however, her study illuminates the ways in language, authorship, and publication redirect his troops’ energies from drink and Fables (1651). Willie underscores the diversity cartography but also to apocalyptic studies. which English has become provincialized, as unbounded from place, as collective disorder to acting the parts of Roundheads of responses to the political moment as HM 83 constitutes a distinctive effort made local and minor, and has had its productions. One crucial value of novels and Cavaliers. By all counts the men played masques promoted a nationalist agenda and The Pulp Magazines Project. Patrick Belk, to use maps to illustrate the sequence of history of global and commercial dominance that make acts of translation implicit and their roles with gusto. The episode serves to a counter-narrative to the image of Cromwell Nathan Madison: 2011. and interestingly the events selected to be of world writers’ imposed and inherited asking how people, objects, ideas, and even the Revolution – the way in which topical plays role of allegory and fable in the stories of described are far from being popular motifs; encounters with the language. Writers aesthetic styles move across territories, and on both stage and page “recast the current monarchy performed in the Commonwealth The Pulp Magazines Project (PMP) is an instead, it emphasizes the chronology, aware of the migrant character of language how that movement alters the meaning and moment, partly as a way to comment upon “court,” Willie deftly demonstrates the open-access digital collection of English- mechanics, geography, and cartography of and literature inflect their English language form of collectivity” (123). Such novels contemporary events and partly to rewrite ambiguities among text, performance, and language pulp magazine content “for the study the Last Days. Thus, this book will be of novels with varieties and differences: the jumble traditions and abandon attachments [them]” (17). Aligning herself with the New context to show how the period’s practice and preservation of one of the twentieth interest to scholars working not only on the acknowledgement of imperial, pidgin, to a national literature model; they violate British Historians, Willie engages recent of appropriation and innovation created century’s most influential print culture forms: history of cartography and Apocalypticism, polyglot, imperfect, commercial, and orally borders and traditions of genre; they work on the production of plays during the a hodgepodge theater where notions of the all-fiction pulpwood magazine.” The but also on the history of art, religious expressive Englishes. aggregate, compare, collect, and collate Commonwealth period, as well as the history genre, kingship, and allegiance were under first generation of cooperative, open-access studies, and manuscript studies. Her emphasis on varieties of English, on linguistic and literary varieties. of the book and print culture, to reveal construction. libraries were text-based transcriptions like Without any doubt, just a glance at processes of communication in the study’s Walkowitz advocates for an unsettled how drama was appropriated by royalists Chapters Four and Five bring us to the Project Gutenberg. In the past 20 years digital the maps of HM 83 will tempt the reader featured novels’ architecture and form, embrace of “relative fluency” in an and parliamentarians alike as a means Restoration stage. The former focuses on imaging equipment has improved while the to download all the images available privileges writing and reading as on-going acts increasingly connective world; she urges of intervening in the historical narrative heroic drama, arguing that Davenant’s The price for it has plummeted, allowing a second online at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ of transmission, adaptation, and exchange. readers to reimagine the foundations of of the immediate past. She debunks the Siege of Rhodes (1656/1663) and Dryden’s The generation of digital sites to add images to digitalscriptorium/huntington/HM83.html, Born translated works also highlight the the native and the foreign by challenging conventional wisdom that Commonwealth Conquest of Granada (1670-71) safely question the text. The creation of digital storage/ as Chet Van Duzer recalls having done many collaborative nature of a novel’s production intrinsic reading practices. What if we learned England was theaterless (a notion “fostered notions of sovereignty by relocating war and server operations with capacity measured years before researching the manuscript and circulation; translators, editors, to recognize and read the foreign in the in the Restoration” [17]) to argue instead usurpation in foreign lands. The chapter ends in gigabytes, terabytes, and soon petabytes (vii). The digitization of library and archival typesetters, and designers of paratextual familiar and accept the translation as another that dramatic forms played a vital role in with discussion of Villiers’ mock-heroic, makes possible the capture and presentation material has turned our computers into real elements of the book each contribute to “potential original” (177)? What might the reinterpreting regicide, restoration, and The Rehearsal (1672), which brought the of high-resolution, image-based files that treasure chests of book culture, and HM 83 its range of articulations. The chapter ‘The benefits of this kind of rehabituated reading government throughout the turbulent debate on sovereignty back to England, but previously were possible only on microfilm. is a primary example of the cultural richness Series, The List, and The Clone’ includes be? “What would reading in translation look period. contained unrest and plotting to the stage. PMP is an example of this third-generation that such discoveries yield. This book offers a set of international illustrated covers of like if we did it all the time?” Walkowitz Chapters One and Two explore the Chapter Five examines panegyric in three digital resource. the key to fully understand the meaning of Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), a narrative asks (177). She provides some compelling dynamic interplay between stage and page Restoration comedies that recast the civil Creators of the site, Dr. Patrick Belk and 28 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3 2017 d 29

Nathan Madison, launch ambitiously into a measured not as a digital platform but as an this sort of growth can be sustained as the early twentieth century with 99; and post 1138820334. Niu. Lao Shu Dian. Beijing Shi: Zhongguo void left by other large-scale pulp-magazine introductory and exemplary illustrated guide two editors keep up with current scholarship World War II, 1946-present, with 202 entries. Cassandra Falke. The Phenomenology of wen shi chu ban she, 2017. ISBN projects: to capture and present the cover- to the genre (through its subpages and the ) the project remains to be seen, but they are to broad subjects: authorship, with 108 Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury a fifty-year swath between 1896 and 1946. directing new researchers to the literature and off to an auspicious start and one would hope entries; the book trades, 157 entries; feminist Publishing Inc, 2017. ISBN 9781628926484. Denmark The field is large, representing perhaps six to more established sites. The site also provides that this guide to the field will only increase in editing, 54 entries; genre studies, 76 entries; Lee Galda, Lauren A. Liang, and Anne-Marie Mai. Danish Literature in seven thousand serial-fiction titles. As of the contextual and historical writing from a scope as time goes by. It is not meant to be a manuscript and letters, 25 entries; reading and Bernice E. Cullinan and Literature and the the 20th and the Early 21st Century. Odense: date this review was written, site content is variety of contributors, including short pieces completed, final, comprehensive survey but consumption, 118 entries; and professional Child. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2017. University Press of Southern Denmark, very much a work in progress, including 320 on pulp-magazine publishing history. For an ever-changing and fluid work in progress, writing, 33 entries. Coker and Ozment also ISBN 9781305642362. 2017. ISBN 9788776749477. discrete digital objects scattered through serial those studying literature of the early twentieth or as they put it, “a growing organism.” provide a selective list of digital projects Kenneth B. Kidd and Joseph T. Thomas. titles. The image files are not yet keyword century, the site will be of considerable value First, some definitions. “The bibliography and resources beyond their web site. Most Prizing Children's Literature: The Cultural Europe searchable, but the site provides spread-by- as the site makes available materials that are is a resource that lists secondary sources on importantly, they solicit contributions from Politics of Children's Book Awards. New York: Thomas Hendrickson. Ancient Libraries spread images of magazines, including covers frequently difficult to locate. SHARP News women’s writing and participation in the book others and provide links for contacting Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138650541. and Renaissance Humanism: The De Bibliothecis and advertising pages. Additions to the site readers will be particularly interested in the trades.” The editors go on to say, “We define them with suggestions, new entries, and Jonathan Lethem. More Alive and Less of Justus Lipsius. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. content have lagged since the initial launch in , but a bit book history in the same terms as Leslie corrections. Lonely: On Books and Writers. Brooklyn: ISBN 9789004338166. 2011, and the creators still have considerable more in the section would be Howsam in Old Books and New Histories: the As with any web site of this kind, Melville House, 2017. ISBN 9781612196039. Sarah Kay. Animal Skins and the Reading work ahead to capture the tens of thousands helpful. Content is king and if contributions intersection of history, literary studies, and one hopes that it will be maintained and C. S. Lewis and E. M. W. Tillyard The Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries. of pulp-magazine issues produced over the continue its value as an access platform to the bibliography.” And while both Coker and augmented in the future. In addition to Coker Personal Heresy: A Controversy. New York: Chicago; London: University of Chicago period. stories themselves will increase. Ozment are interested in the early modern and Ozment, we also must thank the English HarperOne, 2017. ISBN 9780062565624. Press, 2017. ISBN 9780226436739. The project’s rationale for creating a The “News and Updates” section of period themselves (pre-1800) and their department at Texas A&M, which provided Heike Missler. The Cultural Politics of Anders Rydell. The Book Thieves: The digital preservation/access platform runs PMP records no new content for nearly two study reflects this personal and professional the funding and material support necessary. Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism, and Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race headlong into one of the key problems years and thus PMP exemplifies the very real specialization, the bibliography itself is One suspects that graduate students in the Representation. New York: Routledge, Taylor & to Return a Literary Inheritance. New York: facing popular-literature resources: individual problem of digital-platform sustainability: it expansive chronologically, geographically, field will especially benefit from the site but Francis Group, 2017. ISBN 9781138648241. Viking, 2017. ISBN 9780735221222. magazines are now downright rare. They were is easy to design and reasonably inexpensive and linguistically. Though English and it should also be useful for faculty and other Kristina Valendinova. From Illiteracy intended, even in their heyday, as nothing to build an open-resource site around a great studies of English and American topics scholars. The bibliography is not a searchable to Literature: Psychoanalysis and Reading. France more than bound ephemera. Today pulp- idea, but difficult and expensive both to fulfil predominate at present, French, German, database (for example, no queries are possible Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Kathryn Brown. Matisse's Poets: Critical magazine issues are rediscovered mostly as its scope (i.e., supply content) and to sustain Spanish, Italian, and other studies are included by author, keyword, or subject). One clicks Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138796027. Performance in the Artist's Book. New York: single issues and by happenstance. There it in perpetuity. Similar grant-funded projects with increasing frequency. Broad subject areas and views either the entire checklist or facets Will Schwalbe. Books for Living. New Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ISBN are comparatively few lengthy runs of in popular culture have become moribund. include publishers and the book trade, reading of it. But this sort of interactivity is not a York: Alfred A Knopf, 2017. ISBN 9781501326837. individual titles accessible to scholars. Most To provide genuine permanence in digital and consumption, authorship, professional great liability and in fact, the design of the 9780385353540. Barney Rosset. Dear Mr. Beckett-Letters actual collections exist in private hands and platforms, digital resources like PMP must writing, manuscript and letters, and theory site also serves to underscore the importance Merilyn Simonds. Gutenberg's Fingerprint: from the Publisher: The Samuel Beckett File in a handful of institutions, and many of develop as fiscally stable entities themselves and meta-analyses of the field. Included in of enumerative bibliography, still an essential A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide. Correspondence, Interviews, Photos. Tuxedo these do not include complete runs of a or exist within a patron institution willing to the bibliography are monographs, journal activity in our digital present and future. Of Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ECW Press, 2017. Park, NY: Opus Books, 2017. ISBN given title. The project could profitably scan commit to the site’s expansion. They must articles, and chapters in books. With a handful the making of books there is no end. So, too, ISBN 9781770413528. 9781623160708. the Library of Congress pulp-magazine also cultivate an editorial commitment to the of exceptions, theses and dissertations haven’t with the making of lists. Coker and Ozment Jennifer J. Sorensen. Modernist Germany collection (microfilmed and discarded in the resource longer-lived than the founder. If the been included in any systematic way, but that are to be commended. Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Stefan Alker. Ns-Provenienzforschung und hand-wringing Slow Fires period of the 1980s), Pulp Magazine Project and its contributors solve may change going forward. Print Culture. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Restitution an Bibliotheken. Berlin: De Gruyter but contributions of that scale would require a these conundrums, those of us fascinated Second, how does the site work? It is Russell L. Martin III Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781472458834. Saur, 2017. ISBN 9783110318586. huge investment. At present the site is largely by popular culture and its literature certainly clean, attractive, and easy to navigate. One Southern Methodist University Emmanuel Terray and Françoise B. Venkat Mani. Recoding World Literature: the work of a handful of academics, but like wish them well. can take a bird’s eye view and generate a list Héritier. Mes anges gardiens: précédé de Emmanuel Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact the index site FictionMags Index (http://www. of their entire corpus (alphabetical by author’s Terray l'insurgé. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2017. with Books. New York: Fordham University philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm), Richard Saunders last name or chronological by publication ISBN 9782021321463. Press, 2017. ISBN 9780823273409. PMP seeks to address the limiting factors of Southern Utah University date). As of this writing, the earliest study Bibliography James Wiser and Rolf A. Janke. Open assets and collections by accepting images they have listed dates from 1862, Alphonse Book: A Librarian's Guide to Academic Publishing. Netherlands from individual contributors as they can be c Alkan, Les Femmes Compositrices d’Imprimerie [Santa Barbara]: Mission Bell Media, 2017. Claartje Rasterhoff. Painting and acquired an issue at a time, rather than an Sous La Revolution Française En 1794. This General ISBN 9780997175714. Publishing as Cultural Industries: The Fabric of entire title at a time. Thus the site will grow Women in Book History Bibliography. Texas A&M chronological display is especially helpful in Christina Banou. Re-Inventing the Book: Creativity in the Dutch Republic, 1580-1800. slowly, perhaps glacially, but sustainably. University: 2016. has developed over time. At present, they have Industry. [S.l.]: CHANDOS Publishing, 2017. Brian John Busby. The Dusty Bookcase: 2017. ISBN 9789089647023. Herculean task, one that narrower and better- included only 21 citations to works published ISBN 0081012780. A Journey through Canada's Forgotten, Neglected, funded projects have already begun, such as Women in Book History Bibliography is a very before 1970; one suspects this will change as Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic and Suppressed Writing. Windsor, Ontario: Russia Syracuse University’s Street & Smith archive, useful tool for researchers interested in the new entries are added retrospectively, but it Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print. Biblioasis, 2017. ISBN 9781771961684. Steven Shankman. Turned inside Out: Stanford University’s Dime Novels and Penny scholarship devoted to the topic. Compiled also suggests how feminist scholarship of Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Elaine Dewar. Hand-Over: A Can- Reading the Russian Novel in Prison. Evanston, Dreadfuls, and Michigan State University’s by Cait Coker and Kate Ozment, two doctoral the past 40 years or so has shaped the field. Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781421421346. Lit How Dunnit. Biblioasis, 2017. ISBN IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017. Russell B. Nye collection. Projects of this students in English at Texas A&M University, One can also generate lists based on five time Rachel Dean-Ruzicka. Tolerance Discourse 9781771961110. ISBN 9780810134928. scope, particularly cooperative ones, are still it has grown from 165 entries at the time of periods: antiquity to medieval, 23 studies at and Young Adult Holocaust Literature: Engaging difficult to maintain. For awhile, perhaps, the web site’s launch on May 2, 2016, to 588 present; early modern, 1500-1800, with 199 Difference and Identity. New York: Routledge, China United Kingdom the value of the site will be most easily entries as of November 11, 2016. Whether citations; the nineteenth century with 191; Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. ISBN Chunxia Zhang, Bei Gao, and Mengyue Alistair Black. Libraries of Light: British 30 c 2017 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 3

Public Library Design in the Long 1960s. Chicago: Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis American Library Association, 2017. ISBN Group, 2017. ISBN 1472472942. 9780838914618. Carolyn Oulton. Dickens and the Myth of the Reader. New York: Routledge, 2017. c ISBN 9781138230323. David H. Richter. Reading the Eighteenth- Century Novel. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2017. ISBN 9781118621141.

United States James A. Abbott, et al. Evergreen: The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. ISBN 9781421421698. Matt Cohen. Whitman's Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. ISBN 9781609384760. Catherine Compton-Lilly. Reading Students' Lives: Literacy Learning across Time. New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138190221. Jonathan Cott. There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak. New York: Doubleday, 2017. ISBN 9780385540438. Loretta M. Gaffney. Young Adult Literature, Libraries, and Conservative Activism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. ISBN 9781442264083. Kevin J. Hayes. George Washington: A Life in Books. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780190456672. Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Pauletta Brown Bracy, and Casey H. Rawson, eds. Libraries, Literacy, and African American Youth: Research and Practice. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, 2017. ISBN 9781440838729. Lee Clark Mitchell. Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ISBN 9781501329654. Vivian R. Pollak. Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. ISBN 9780812248449. Gordon N. Ray. Books as a Way of Life: Essays. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2017. ISBN 9781883631178. Michael Rosenthal. Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and the Battle against Censorship. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2017. ISBN 9781628726503. A. Arro Smith. Capturing Our Stories: An Oral History of Librarianship in Transition.