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The next three days were devoted to the in which the three papers were clearly con- SHARP LYON 2004 main ingredient of the congress: presenting nected by a lucid exposition of the issues in- and attending the numerous congress papers. volved. The proportion of participants to papers (see Among those I interviewed there was a Three tantalisingly different views of the recent above) shows that the possibility of present- broad consensus that four papers in a 90 SHARP conference presented by some of our ing a paper is an important motive to attend minute session was too much. Many com- international correspondents. the SHARP conference. As an individual par- plained that numerous speakers ignored the ticipant I was able to attend only a fraction of organisers’ request not to exceed the 20 min- 197 participants, 153 papers, 35° Celsius the many presentations, so I interviewed sev- utes allotted for each presentation. Nearly half (95° Fahrenheit) in the shade, 478 litres of jus eral participants in order to collect some mate- the talks that I attended overran the time slot. de fruits: those are the key statistics of the rial on which to base this report. I asked them A pleasant exception was the presentation by SHARP 2004 Conference of last July. what they thought of the presentations and Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén (Uppsala). She not Dominique Varry, François Dupuigrenet- the congress in general and I also asked them only advocated brief but stimulating lectures Desroussilles and their team can be about their motives for traveling to Lyon and herself, but also proved her point by estab- complimented on the organisation of an at- whether they had suggestions for improve- lishing the all-time SHARP record with a talk tractive congress with various surprises in the ment of the SHARP conferences. that lasted only 12 minutes and 40 seconds. inspiring surroundings of the city of Lyon, Some interviewees especially appreciated the In several other sessions I saw chairs squirm- in particular the fine modern building of the wide range of topics discussed at the congress. ing under relentlessly ticking clocks, faced with École Nationale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences One participant said that subjects were raised the choice between indulging the speaker and Humaines. On the first day, the framework which you did not expect to come up at con- appeasing the restless audience. The speakers of the congress was outlined in an exemplary gresses of other kinds of academic societies. generally won. Regrettably, this left little time fashion. François Dupuigrenet-Desroussilles Others were interested in finding out what for what many participants view as the most presented the institutes that support the their colleagues are working on, either in indi- valuable part of the conference: expert dis- Institut d’Histoire du Livre together with the vidual research or in team projects. A few of cussion by fellow researchers of the presenta- city of Lyon. Dominique Varry drew an inter- them expressed mixed feelings about the qual- tion of work in progress. esting picture of the 500 year old history of ity of some congress papers. But, as one first- Another request I heard was to have a brief Lyon as a city of printers and books. Brief time visitor from South Africa put it, the good introduction for each paper, explaining the words of welcome were spoken by SHARP thing about SHARP is that the barriers for the background and context of the research re- President Beth Luey and by Henri-Jean Mar- submission of papers are not extremely high. ported. Some felt that too many speakers tin, the nestor of book history in France. In At the same time the annual publication of started their presentation abruptly, without an erudite and tightly argued lecture about 500 the journal Book History demonstrates the any mention of this context. Another practi- years of book history, Roger Chartier bridged ambition to achieve high standards. ... / 2 the gap between the material and immaterial What suggestions were made for improv- aspects of book production. ing the design of the conferences? Many pit- Both the main programme of the SHARP ied the committee that is burdened with the CONTENTS conference and the additional events were a task of selecting and clustering the individual salutary reminder of France’s impressive con- paper proposals. Some participants were bien SHARP LYON 2004 1 tribution to the study of book history, which étonnés de se trouver ensemble in a panel session THE SHARP EDGE 3 is perhaps not always fully appreciated out- with colleagues who presented papers that BOOK HISTORY PRIZE 5 side France, especially in the English-speaking seemed scarcely related to the subject of their SHARP ADA AWARD 5 countries. The conference offered an oppor- own papers or the subject of the panel. One GRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE 6 tunity to bring this contribution to the atten- participant suggested that authors should be SHARP HALIFAX 2005 6 tion of a wide circle of colleagues. The tribute required to attach descriptive keywords to their NEW EXHIBITIONS REVIEWER 6 paid to Henri-Jean Martin, who received a paper proposals, so that the Selection Com- BOOK REVIEWS 7 decoration from the mayor of Lyon on the mittee would have less difficulty in clustering CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 10 evening of the first conference day, empha- the proposals in panel sessions. There was sized Martin’s achievements, not only as a universal praise for the panel sessions that had CONFERENCE REPORT 10 former curate of Lyon City Library, but also as been carefully prepared by their speakers and BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 a widely respected book historian.
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... / 1 cal suggestion was to allow more time for Williamsburg, London and Claremont than SHARP NEWS informal meetings on specific fields or topics in Lyon. of research, for which invitations might be Finally, it must be regretted from a Euro- EDITOR issued in advance via the SHARP-L list. pean perspective that so few visitors from con- Sydney Shep, Wai-te-ata Press In conclusion, I would like to make a few tinental Europe attended the conference. In Victoria University of Wellington personal observations. The 2004 Conference his eulogy to Henri-Jean Martin on the first PO Box 600 was successful, partly because it took place in a conference day, the mayor of Lyon took our Wellington, New Zealand city with many cultural attractions, which had German colleagues to task because after 46 Fax: +64-4-463-5446 been carefully incorporated into the pro- years they had still not translated the latter’s E-mail: [email protected] gramme by the organising committee. Lyon L’Apparition du Livre, but there were only two as a centre of books and book history emerged German participants in the audience to carry EDITORIAL ASSISTANT - 13.4 from behind the dominating shadow of Paris. this message across the Rhine. Many coun- Nic Rombel, Whitireia Publishing Did this leave some other interesting French tries in Western and Eastern Europe were sessional intern centres of book study underexposed? In view scarcely represented or not at all in Lyon. This of my own particular interest, viz. contempo- should be a major challenge for the organisers REVIEW EDITORS rary history of books and publishers, I missed of future SHARP conferences. Ian Gadd, Book Reviews the contribution of the Institut Mémoire de School of English & Creative Studies l’Édition Moderne in Caen and regretted the Frank de Glas Bath Spa University College scant attention paid to the contribution of Utrecht University, The Netherlands Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN UK modern French sociology to the study of Translation: Yvonne Bogaarts-De Glas E-mail: [email protected] book production and reception. One of the topics raised at the AGM was F Chuck Johanningsmeier, Book Reviews SHARP membership. The fall in membership English Department has been halted, but it is worrying that our University of Nebraska society is so poorly represented in a number This was my first SHARP conference. I Omaha, NE 68182-0175 USA of countries that play a worldwide role in the welcomed the founding of SHARP and fol- E-mail: [email protected] production and distribution of books and lowed its progress with great interest over the the study of book history, although SHARP years because it seemed to coincide with my Lisa Pons, Exhibitions Reviews News has recently given more attention to these own teaching and research interests, but for Southern Methodist University blank spaces on the world map. This again one reason or another this was the first con- E-mail: [email protected] faces us with the well-known dilemma dis- ference I could get to. I went to SHARP Lyon cussed at previous SHARP meetings: how to hoping to meet people whose work I’d read BIBLIOGRAPHER extend SHARP’s scope without losing the and people interested in the things I’m inter- Padmini Ray Chaudhury informal, small-scale character of our annual ested in – such as popular print cultures, chil- Centre for the History of the Book get-togethers. dren’s books, ephemera, sociologies of texts University of Edinburgh An important concern remains the rein- and reading. I also hoped to be able promote 22A Buccleuch Place forcement of SHARP by young members. “streetprint,” a free digital database engine that Edinburgh EH8 9LN UK Our congresses are open to graduate students I’ve developed with a team of students at the E-mail: [email protected] and some of them present work from their University of Alberta (see www.streetprint.org SUBSCRIPTIONS PhD-projects. But are there enough to ensure – please forgive yet another plug). Having Barbara Brannon, SHARP SHARP’s long-term future? Simultaneously heard a lot about previous SHARP confer- PO Box 30 with SHARP 2004, another congress was held ences I also expected to hear about new re- Wilmington, NC 28402–0030 USA in the same building, devoted to Models for search that would help me better understand E-mail: [email protected] Complex Systems in Human and Social Sciences. my own work and its limitations. Finally, hav- F The problems tackled by SHARP participants ing started a research project on contemporary in their papers are every bit as complex as the popular print in various cities, I planned to problems raised in other sciences and models reconnoitre the possibilities for such a study SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the are commonly used to approach them, but I in Lyon. This mixed agenda was realized in quarterly newsletter of the Society for the could not help noticing that the average age at varying degrees. History of Authorship, Reading and Pub- the parallel congress seemed to be about 15 I enjoyed all aspects of the conference – lishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with years younger than ours. though some more than others – and I Wingdings. Another concern relates to the content of thought the organization of the conference COPY DEADLINES the congress papers. In Claremont (2003) and was everything it should be. I attended all the 1 March, 1 June, earlier SHARP conferences, it was pointed out sessions I could and the one day I was late I 1 September, 1 December that the study of book history would benefit was punished by getting caught in a down- from an increase of interdisciplinary research, pour between the Metro station and the con- SHARP WEB: e.g. more input from economic and social sci- ference location at the École Normale http://sharpweb.org ences. This aspect was more prominent in ... / 4 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol13/iss3/1 2 et al.: Volume 13, Number 3
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selves. Employing the case of Jean-Jacques ien Régime to the Present,’ this panel featured THE SHARP EDGE Rousseau, she demonstrated how the papers on the packaging of books in three paratexts, or formats and frameworks, of vari- very different contexts. The first of these pa- ous editions of the writings of an author may pers, by Cynthia Koepp of Wells College, Rethinking Book History in be used to illuminate editorial practices in a described the piracies and imitations of a best- th France given time and place. According to her, the selling 18 century encyclopedia, the Spectacle paratexts of the editions of Rousseau indi- de la Nature compiled by the Abbé Pluche. cate that, whereas under the Old Regime his The second, by Willa Silverman of Pennsyl- While the main attraction for historians writings had been marketed mainly to an elite vania State University, explored the exhibi- of the book in France this past summer was and conservative audience, during the Revolu- tions of books at the international exposi- certainly the SHARP conference in Lyons in tion they were popularized and politicized. tions of the late-nineteenth century. Studying July, another conference in Paris (17-20 June), Only recently has research on the history of the multiple ways in which books were repre- a special 50th anniversary meeting of the Soci- the book in France moved beyond the pre- sented by their exhibitors, Silverman asserted ety of French Historical Studies, also featured revolutionary and revolutionary period to con- that their polysemic nature allowed them to three panels related to the history of the book. sider the new typographical regime, or ‘literary be marketed to a variety of audiences, alterna- Conveniently, all three panels occurred back- marketplace,’ of the 19th century. In the second tively and simultaneously as national sym- to-back on the same day of the conference presentation on this panel, entitled “The Poli- bols, commercial goods, industrial products, (Friday, June 18), allowing presenters on this tics of the Literary Marketplace in the Nine- or artistic luxuries. The third paper on this topic to attend each other’s sessions and pur- teenth Century,” I reconsidered the origins of panel, by a graduate student at Pennsylvania sue their discussions both formally and in- the 19th century literary marketplace. Where pre- State, Audra Merfeld, highlighted a more re- formally throughout the day. Together, the vious scholars have emphasized the techno- cent marketing tool of French booksellers and three panels provided an occasion to reflect logical and economic underpinnings of a mar- bibliophiles: the villages du livre, or ‘book vil- upon the past, present, and future of the ket for books, I argued that in France at least lages,’ which have been founded in the last historiography of the book in both early this market was a product of political strug- decade or so with the aim of promoting the modern and modern France. Across these pan- gles and negotiations between printers, pub- book arts while simultaneously revitalizing els were addressed three major issues of rel- lishers, and state officials, over the extent to rural communities. Together, these three pa- evance to historians of the book: the transi- which the production and distribution of pers underscored the historical importance of tion from the ancien régime typographique of the printed matter should be regulated. Not until the book to French culture and identity, while early modern period to the literary marketplace entrepreneurial publishers convinced govern- also emphasizing how this connection has of the 19th century, the role of the state in the ment administrators and legislators to liberal- been reinforced and exploited by both state history of print in France, and a reassessment ize the legislation on publishing did a free and industry. of the function of the author in the creation, market for literature emerge, in the last third A third panel at the SFHS conference, en- production, and marketing of books. of the 19th century. The last presenter on the titled ‘Print and Its Cultures in Early Modern The first panel, ‘From the Old Typographi- panel, Jean-Yves Mollier of the Université de France: Illustration, Translation, and Perform- cal Regime to the New: Recent Work on the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, however, ance,’ aimed to illuminate several understud- History of the Book in France,’ provided a insisted upon the technological causes of the ied aspects of the ‘old typographical regime.’ broad survey of the state of this sub-field in transition from the old to the new typographi- Whether intentionally or not, this panel also its country of origin. Revisiting the seminal cal regime. Although he agreed that this tran- served to encourage a reconsideration of the article of 1981 by Roger Chartier, “L’ancien sition did not really occur until the end of the figure of the author, by emphasizing the role régime typographique,” the three presenters 19th century, he maintained that the mass cul- of other types of creators and producers in on this panel offered three different analyses ture of the fin-de-siècle depended heavily upon the publication of texts and images. The first of the origins in France of the shift from the the introduction of mechanics, steam, gas and paper on this panel, “Passing to Print in Early ‘old typographical regime’ of the pre-revolu- eventually electricity to the printing industry. Modern France: The Reuse of Images and tionary period to what in contrast might be Given their different approaches to the ques- the Nature of the Book in XVIth Century called the ‘new typographical regime’ of the tion of what effected the shift from the old to France,” by Abby Zanger of Tufts University, 19th century. In a paper entitled “What We Still the new typographical regime in France, the re-examined the recycling of images across Need to Know about Print Culture in the three papers on this panel suggested that fu- texts in the 16th century. Rather than seeing French Revolution, or the Importance of ture research on this topic will have to con- such recycling as a careless measure of con- Paratextuality,” Carla Hesse of the University sider the Revolution as well as the 19th century, venience or economy, Zanger interpreted it as of California, Berkeley, briefly summarized editorial practices as well as legal and cultural an intentional strategy of the early modern previous knowledge of the transition from institutions, and politics as well as technology. printer, who repeated the same images in dif- the old typographical regime to the new be- The second panel at the meeting of the ferent books as a way to punctuate narratives fore more closely examining editorial practices SFHS related to book history examined a step and link texts. The second paper, by Roger during the revolutionary period. While research in the communications circuit that has (in com- Chartier of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en in the last quarter-century has shown how the parison to creation, production, and reception, Sciences Sociales, described the production of Revolution transformed the legal and institu- for example) received little scholarly attention: translations (and, often, alterations) of Span- tional context of publishing, she argued, it marketing. Entitled ‘Unpacking Their Librar- ish novels, which were in vogue in France in has yet to illuminate how it affected texts them- ies: Marketing Books in France from the Anc- ... / 4
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... / 3 the 17th century. The final paper on this panel, cultures in early modern France suggested, the I may well have a slanted perspective here “Printing the Fêtes or Modernizing Monar- figure of the author needs to be reconsidered. because, though I did go to everything I could, chy,” by Larry Norman of the University of A flood of studies of the history of author- like everyone else I missed most of the con- Chicago, analyzed the official commemorative ship in recent years has done little to effec- ference because of the inevitable conference volumes and related playbooks from the three tively deconstruct the Romantic image of the structure of parallel sessions, and I wish it greatest theatrical festivals of the reign of author. But, as the work of Hesse, Zanger, were possible to, say, post all the papers and Louis XIV. In his view, the form as well as the and Chartier (among others) indicates, this presentations on the net for a few months content of these festival souvenirs worked to image often bears little resemblance to the re- after the conference, before people start plac- promote an image of the monarchy as pro- ality of authorship, which has historically been ing their work with journals or in books. As gressive in the famous Quarrel of the An- shaped by the interventions of translators, at all conferences I attend, the presentations I cients and the Moderns. By illuminating the illustrators, printers, editors, and publishers. saw at SHARP and the formats containing many actors and processes involved in putting Among other things, these three panels at the them were in pretty standard conference pa- texts and images into book form for audi- SFHS conference suggest that historians of per format, though an increasing number of ences in France, this panel implicitly under- the book need to do more to uncover the associations do encourage experimentation mined the traditional, Romantic image of the reality of authorship in the past. with ways of reporting research in the confer- author as an autonomous creator. ence setting. Since I believe that the presenta- What do these three panels reveal about Christine Haynes tions are the pretext and the text – at a confer- the state of book history in France, where this University of North Carolina-Charlotte ence, at least – is the discussion afterwards, I topic first emerged as a field of study? In re- very much appreciated the fact that most of cent years, this field has incorporated new time the sessions I went to also had disciplined periods, new aspects of the history of com- presenters who left good time for us in the munication, and new methodological audience to follow their work in all sorts of approaches. Where before it was focused pri- SHARP LYON 2004 directions. marily on the pre-revolutionary and revolu- I found the physical setting of the confer- tionary eras, it has now begun to encompass ence at the ENS to be very pleasant, easy to th the 19 century and beyond; where before it ... / 2 reach and to use, and encouraging continued was concerned largely with the creation, pro- discussion and networking outside of the duction, and reception of literature, it has now Supérieure. I was impressed by the freshness sessions – especially at the lunches, though I begun to examine other steps in the circuit of of the research being reported, by the enthu- could have used a straw hat while lining up in communication, for example marketing; and siasm and commitment of the reseachers, and the sun outside the cafeteria. I also learned where before it was based heavily on economic, by the diversity of research being done. from and met people at the social events and social, and biographical research, it has now Though I’ve been using history of the book outings – the receptions were warmly social, begun to emphasize the role of culture and scholarship and methodologies in my work the riverboat dinner was agreeably relaxing and politics in shaping the ‘typographical regime,’ for three decades, I heard about all sorts of picturesque, and the Bibliothèque Municipal, whether old or new. If these panels are any research and issues that were unknown to me where our hosts clearly communicated their indication, however, this new research has and learned a lot about things I thought I love for the manuscripts and rare books in raised as many questions as it has answered. knew something about – from bibliometrics their charge, was fascinating, in fact inspiring It has opened avenues for further research in to children’s books, gift books to digests, – a real treasurehouse of humanity, civil soci- at least three major areas. First of all, the causes publishers’ tricks to publishers’ mobility ety, and books. and consequences of the transition from the across borders, literary translation to literary I loved getting to know Lyon (I stayed old typographical regime to the new remain a burlesque, new directions in book history there for two weeks before the conference and subject of debate, over twenty years after theory to new directions in publishing his- for a week after) and managed to get started Chartier’s seminal article on the topic. While tory. These were just some of the topics in on my study of popular print in Lyon, past new technological processes and editorial prac- the sessions I went to. Selfishly, I wished there and present. Though the Bibliothèque tices certainly played a role in this transition, were more papers on my current hobbyhorse Municipale didn’t feel they had materials of political factors also shaped the literary mar- of popular print culture and, as in the litera- use to me, the bookstall proprietors on the ketplace of the 19th century and hence demand ture on book history generally, at times I found quai des Célestins had lots to offer, both books further study – especially in a country like the conference – insofar as I heard it – stretched (e.g., a risqué 1930s magazine titled Lyon la France, where the state historically played such between big picture and case study, haunted nuit) and information (e.g., that most buyers an important role in the production and dis- by the category of the literary, and surpisingly of second-hand romans policiers are women). tribution of literature. Second, the role of the little interested in the impact and the poten- The bookshop owners of Lyon were also gen- state in regulating and promoting books un- tial of digital technology – for us but also for erous to me. One found me three volumes der both the old typographical regime and the the future of the book. The session I partici- of French Revolution pamphlets published new deserves further exploration. In particu- pated in on digital technology was the worst at Lyon. Another taught me that keeping lar, more comparative work is needed to de- attended of any session I went to, and only a scrapbooks (the topic of my conference pres- termine why and how the state in France, more few presentations reported on or used digital entation), as distinct from keeping albums of than elsewhere, has concerned itself with technology. chromolithographs, “est un phénomène printed matter. 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of chromos. L’Épigraphe, on the crest of of National Biography and the British Book The donors of the endowment are Jeanne Croix Rousse, supplied me with enough popu- Trade,” “Travel, Exploration and Geography,” S. DeLong, Jonathan Rose and Gayle DeLong, lar print to fill 10 parcels mailed back to “Politics and Propaganda,” “French Literature Larry and Andrea Kranz, David K. and Canada. SHARP and Lyon conspired to leave Abroad,” “Legal Issues,” “Libraries, Personal Karen G. DeLong, and Victor and Ruth Rose. me with a lot, some of which I’m now and Reading,” and “Reading Advice and Edu- SHARP was founded in 1991 as a global putting into a course on book history – of- cation - Popular Literature and Reception” all network for book historians from a variety fered for the first time as a regular course in added to my growing understanding of print of academic disciplines. It has over a thou- my English Department here at the Univer- culture. I know that I will use insights gained sand members from more than twenty coun- sity of Alberta. here in my graduate course on the History of tries. For further information on SHARP and the Book this academic year. I was particularly the DeLong Prize, please go to the SHARP Gary Kelly pleased with the engaging discussion with the website: www.sharpweb.org University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada panelists and audience in the two sessions where I presented papers. I wish I could have F attended more sessions, however. All told the 2004 conference in Lyon was NEW SHARP AWARD indeed memorable. Let me assure you that Each meeting of the Society for the His- the organizing committee aims to make the tory of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 2005 conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada This is the first year that the new biennial offers unique features, and the twelfth confer- equally so! SHARP Award for Distinguished Achievement ence in Lyon certainly lived up to this reputa- [ADA] was awarded. The Committee was made up tion. The conference organizers succeeded in Bertrum H. MacDonald of Leslie Howsam (Canada), Martine Poulain attracting a new coterie of scholars to comple- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (France) and Elizabeth Webby (Australia). They ment many others who have attended earlier report as follows: SHARP conferences in Claremont, London, Williamsburg, and other cities. SHARP’s prac- BOOK HISTORY PRIZE We received a number of nominations, tice of alternating between North American and it was difficult to choose from among and European venues helps to promote the the projects, especially since all were of very book history field internationally. Undoubt- DeLong Family Endows high quality, and because there was a great edly conferences in Halifax in 2005 and The deal of variety among them. Hague in 2006 will continue this effort. SHARP Book History Prize We finally chose a work of immense bib- What stands out? Besides many stimulat- liographical scholarship, produced and pub- ing sessions and the opportunity to renew The family and friends of the late George lished in France, under the aegis of the friendships with scholars met previously as A. DeLong have endowed the annual Book Bibliothèque Nationale. It is a catalogue of well as begin new ones, numerous events were History Prize given by the Society for the His- the early modern printed Bibles that survive noteworthy. The opening plenary session on tory of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing in a the main Parisian libraries. It lists over international book history which moved be- (SHARP) to the best book in the field. Mr. 10,000 copies of 4,800 different editions dat- yond local and national projects; the welcome DeLong was a member of SHARP until his ing from the 15th to the 18th centuries: bibles reception in a glorious setting at Lyon’s City death on March 22, 2002. The gift was an- in all languages from many countries. The Hall; the delightful evening dinner cruise on nounced at SHARP’s 2004 annual meeting, work is an example of the meticulous biblio- the Saône and Rhône rivers; a visit to the held in Lyon, France, in July. graphical scholarship which forms the back- Gallo-Roman museum which included sitting The prize, initiated by SHARP in 1997, shall bone of the history of the book, and hence it in the amphitheatre in bright sunshine like henceforth be known as the George A. and will be of use to historians, librarians, stu- two millennia of spectators had before; the Jeanne S. DeLong Prize in Book History. dents of the circulation and reception of texts, day outing, accompanied by an extraordinar- This year’s prize was awarded to Graphic De- as well as booksellers and collectors. It is me- ily engaging tour guide, for wine tasting in the sign, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century ticulously cross-indexed and includes records Beaujolais region and an all too brief visit to Novel, by Janine Barchas (Cambridge Univer- of manuscript notes in the printed books. the medieval town of Perouges; and the taxi sity Press). Previous winners are Elizabeth For those who wish to order a copy, the full ride back to the airport on the last morning McHenry, Forgotten Readers (Duke University bibliographic record is: when the escalating fare went beyond the Press, 2002); Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIIe siècle number of Euros remaining in my pocket! Life of the British Working Class (Yale Univer- conservées à Paris. catalogue collectif / union These activities punctuated informative sity Press, 2001); Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolu- catalogue edited by Martine Delaveau and and thought-provoking paper presentations. tions (Yale University Press, 2000); Scott Casper, Denise Hillard. Bibliothèque nationale de Unhappily, the perverse law of conference or- Constructing American Lives (University of France, 2002. 21x 29,7 cm, relié, 912 pages. ganization affected the Lyon meeting just like North Carolina Press, 1999); Adrian Johns, ISBN 271771846X 130 euros any other. Sessions you really wanted to at- The Nature of the Book (University of Chicago tend were scheduled concurrently! Even so, Press, 1998); and Ellen Gruber Garvey, The Information about the next ADA round will soon there was no shortage of interesting papers. I Adman in the Parlor (Oxford University Press, be available on http://www.sharpweb.org/ found the sessions on the “Oxford Dictionary 1997). SHARPada.html
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and each session will be one hour and a half than 250 years later, the capital city of Nova GRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE in duration. Scotia continues to be a major trading centre Papers on any aspect of book history and with plenty of comforts and plenty of sur- print culture will be welcome. The conference prises. The organizing committee consisting The winner of the 2004 SHARP Graduate theme Navigating Texts and Contexts suggests of scholars from Atlantic Canadian universi- Student Essay Prize is Neil Safier, for his arti- that examination of the varieties of the rela- ties, co-chaired by Mary Lu MacDonald and cle ‘To Collect and Abridge … Without Chang- tionship between texts and contexts would Bertrum MacDonald, is hard at work plan- ing Anything Essential: Rewriting Incan His- be welcome. In addition, because Halifax is ning the conference. tory at the Parisian Jardin du Roi.’ In 1609 located at one point of what a Canadian his- Further details are available at the confer- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega published his classic torian described as ‘The North Atlantic Trian- ence website: www.dal.ca/SHARP2005. history of the Incan empire, Commentarios reales gle’ (Britain, France and North America), pa- de los Incas. In 1744, the great botanical labora- pers on aspects of the book trade in that re- We look forward to welcoming you to tory at the Jardin du Roi in Paris would pub- gion would be appropriate. beautiful Halifax in July 2005 lish a translation of Garcilaso’s book, radically Paper and session proposals, in either Eng- revised and reorganized, under the title Histoire lish or French, should be submitted by 30 November 2004. Proposals may be submit- des Incas, Rois du Pérou. Safier focuses on what NEW EXHIBITIONS REVIEWER was changed and added in the translation, ted either online at the conference website concentrating on the paratext, the commen- www.dal.ca/SHARP2005 (in the secure sec- tary, and the scholarly apparatus. In so doing tion for submission of paper/session pro- – and here is where his essay becomes a real posals), or to: Lisa Pons has recently been appointed our new exhi- tour de force – Safier illuminates the episte- bitions reviews editor. She can be contacted by e-mail on mological structures and imperial ethos of SHARP 2005 Conference
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agency with the disciplining forces of families, education, ethnography, history, media stud- BOOK REVIEWS schools, churches, and mass media. ies, and science/medicine. Girls and Literacy in The book is divided into two parts. ‘Part America is a good introduction to the field One’ is a series of six essays giving a historical and an accessible, provocative invitation to our apologies to Catherine Dille for mis-spelling her overview of girls’ literacy in America. ‘Part Two’ students, teachers, and scholars to join the surname in the last issue 13.3 – Ed.. consists of primary documents organized into conversation about girlhood, media, reading, F seven different genres: instructional materials, and writing in America. school assignments, school newspapers and Erin A. Smith Tim Graham, comp. Penguin in Print: A Bibli- literary societies, friendship albums and year- University of Texas at Dallas books, poetry and short stories, letters and ography. London: Penguin Collectors’ Society, F 2003. 112p., ill. ISBN 095274025X. £18. [avail- notes, and diaries. Perhaps the most appeal- able from the Penguin Collectors’ Society, 9 ing aspect of the book is how closely linked Park Road, New Malden, Surrey KT3 5AF, many of the primary texts are to the historical Joseph Loewenstein. The Author’s Due: Print- United Kingdom or from http:// essays. For example, Amy Goodburn’s essay, ing and the Prehistory of Copyright. Chicago: www.penguincollectorssociety.org/]. ‘Girls’ Literacy in the Progressive Era: Female The University of Chicago Press, 2002. x, and American Indian Identity at the Genoa 349p. ISBN 0226490408. (cloth). $45. Penguin is nearing its 17th birthday; this Indian School,’ performs close readings of book provides engaging and wide-ranging students’ school essays, two of which are re- What is the conceptual history of ideation, insights into its history. Although billed as a produced as primary sources. In this way, read- and how have contemporary notions of pro- bibliography, Penguin in Print is also an exten- ers can critically engage the historical essays, prietary authorship grown out of that his- sive anthology of over a hundred selected both to evaluate how well the primary docu- tory? These questions drive the investigations passages – from contemporary press articles ments support the authors’ arguments and into the legal, economic, and political condi- to individual memoirs – that illuminate Pen- to create their own interpretations of the his- tions of print publication that is The Author’s guin’s past from its (possibly apocryphal) ori- torical record. ‘Part Two’ is not merely an ap- Due. The historiographical axes orienting this gins in a moment of inspiration under an pendix to the historical essays, however. The compelling study are the 1710 Statute of Oxfordshire apple-tree. Particularly fascinating selections are much more extensive and repre- Anne, known as the first English copyright is the richly-illustrated section on its famous sentative of all kinds of readers and writers law, and the Copyright Act of 1911. Central design and typography. Although obviously than the historical essays (which are predict- to Loewenstein’s reading of the prehistory celebratory, the collection doesn’t shy from in- ably heavy on privileged girls and women, esp. of these legal landmarks are the intersections cluding some negative views of the publish- in the earlier periods). Since primary texts are of a backward-looking arc of historical inves- er’s activities. The forty-page annotated bibli- arranged by genre rather than chronologically, tigations into the history of the Stationers’ ography which concludes the book, aims to they invite historical consideration of various Company by such scholars as E. Arber, W.W. provide a comprehensive and structured list literary modes. A 2002 e-mail stands next to Greg, and A.W. Pollard, and the forward of printed items about Penguin; its compiler, published letters from nineteenth-century pe- momentum of a law that dispensed with a Tim Graham, welcomes corrections and addi- riodicals and private correspondence from ar- property right dependent on registration in tions. A charming addition to any bibliophile’s chives. In addition, all of the primary sources the Company’s books. Simultaneously, the library. are cross-referenced so as to facilitate connec- pressures exerted by emerging technologies F tions across modes. For example, the heading destabilized the definitional boundaries of for a newspaper produced by the high school the property being protected. Viewed through Jane Greer, ed. Girls and Literacy in America: Girls’ League at a Japanese internment camp these multiple refracting, historical lenses, The Historical Perspectives to the Present. Santa in 1944 directs readers to diary entries and po- Author’s Due is a synthetic account of the rela- Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003. (Childhood etry also written by interned girls. Even a cur- tions between book history and book culture and Youth: Studies in Culture and History). sory paging through the almost 200 pages of (relations variously governed by the competi- xxxi, 379p., ill., index. ISBN 1576076660 primary sources makes clear that there are many tions of external and internal forces); of the (cloth); ISBN 1576076679 (e-book). $85. essays about these materials that are waiting tensions between narrow, trade-based con- (cloth); $90. (e-book). to be written. The book’s extensive bibliogra- structions of rights, and larger ideologically- phy, detailed index, and links to electronic media driven constructions; and even of divergences Girls and Literacy in America is an overview also make it user-friendly. For this reason, Girls between company interests and those of in- of the reading and writing practices of girls in and Literacy in America is a great classroom text dividual stationers. In his introductory chap- the U.S. from the colonial period to the for courses in composition and rhetoric, wom- ter, Loewenstein argues that conceptions of present. It demonstrates that literacy has both en’s studies, or the history of print culture. It rights with respect to printing were framed empowered and coerced girls into engaging is so engagingly written, I would not hesitate by these various competitions from at least the world in specifically domestic or feminine to use it for community youth programming Henry VIII’s imposition of a licensing re- ways. Essays and primary documents discuss: or literacy groups. Although its contributors gime in 1538. (1) the ways literacy practices construct and are mostly composition and rhetoric scholars, Six episodic chapters – and an interchapter contest gender, class, ethnic, and religious iden- the collection has broader interdisciplinary ap- on the Jonsonian development of posses- tities; (2) how print culture builds and shapes peal. The bibliography includes work in soci- sive authorship – follow. Loewenstein’s ar- communities; and (3) the interplay of girls’ ology, psychology, women’s studies, literature, ... / 8
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... / 9 gument moves recursively among examples, Carl Ostrowski. Books, Maps and Politics: A Cul- ming the volumes merely to look at the pic- some involving canonical figures in literary tural History of the Library of Congress, 1783- tures,” these critics sought to “cordon off ” history from Sidney to Pope, others more 1861. Amherst and Boston: University of women from the Library’s holdings in law, obliquely shedding light on the history of Massachusetts Press, 2004. (Studies in Print political science, geography, and history (135). authorial property, such as examples on Culture and the History of the Book). x, 261 Ostrowski locates his work firmly within Aldus’s protection of his rights to the italic p., index. ISBN 1558494222. $39.95. £26.95. the history of the book, noting that library typeface and Sir John Harington’s burlesque history can make a unique contribution to attack on monopoly rights in his published Although, technically speaking, the United this interdisciplinary endeavor, “to the degree design of a toilet. Each example illustrates States has no national library comparable to that it moves outside of institutional history the ways practical meditations on intellectual the British Library or France’s Bibliothèque to encompass the broader cultural milieu in production forced reconceptions of that pro- Nationale, in many ways, the Library of Con- which a library exists” (5). He meticulously duction. Chapters ‘Six’ and ‘Seven’ take the gress fulfils that role.But as Carl Ostrowski, charts the Library’s development during the investigation into an era of parliamentary regu- assistant professor of English at Middle Ten- first half of the 19th century while also using lation of the press, and provide strong and nessee State University, makes clear, the vision this chronology to raise questions of broader sustained readings of the “inordinate power of a public institution functioning as a copy- historical significance that persist today. What over subsequent developments in book cul- right depository and supporting the develop- were the competing demands of elite and ture” (187) of a few key texts of Milton’s. ment of a national literature was slow to take popular uses of print, or of utilitarian read- Areopagitica is mined for the topos of books- hold. Books, Maps and Politics traces the Library ing and reading for pleasure? How should as-lives, with important implications for con- of Congress’s story from its late eighteenth- the requirements of the sciences be set against tests over posthumous publication. The re- century beginnings to the outbreak of the Civil those of the arts and humanities? What is publication of Eikonoklastes in 1690 illustrates War, an event that Ostrowski argues marked a the nature of a ‘public’ library? In this enjoy- the ways questions of the identity of Eikon sharp division in the history of the library. able, thoughtful account of the early history Basilike’s author were revived. Charges of pla- After 1864, he posits, Librarian Ainsworth of one of America’s most respected institu- giarism and pseudonymity became stigma- Rand Spofford pursued an expansionary policy tions, Ostrowski gives us important new ways tized, and as they influenced the reception of that ultimately resulted in the institution fa- to think about these issues. a widening circle of texts, such charges even- miliar today. In the antebellum period, how- Christine Pawley tually moved in two directions, leading on ever, as Ostrowski demonstrates, although University of Iowa the one hand to a “compulsory identity” (226) some proposed a broad role for the Library, for authors – including Milton – and on the several factors combined to limit its public func- F other becoming a central component in the tions and to restrict its collecting and publish- later Whig campaign to delegitimate the mon- ing activities. Chief among these were the in- archy. fluence of Maryland Senator James Pearce and James Raven, ed. Lost Libraries: The Destruc- Loewenstein returns in his final chapter to the compliance of Librarian John Silva Meehan. tion of Great Book Collections since Antiquity. the “founding myth” of the New Bibliogra- As powerful chairman of the Joint Library Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. phy, Pollard’s “dream” that “textual integrity Committee, Pearce ensured that during the xiii, 294 p. ill. ISBN1403921199. £50. and regulated intellectual property are some- 1840s and 1850s the Library remained a utili- how mutually entailed” (252). His brief sur- tarian organization devoted principally to pro- This is a remarkable book, in its breadth vey of the conditions under which bibliogra- viding the books, maps, and other materials of coverage (chronological, geographical, and phy achieved a respectability and institution- that congressmen required for their policy- topical), and in its emotional impact. Those alization is as provocative as it is suggestive making. who attended the original conference in Cam- and illuminating. Here, however, Loewenstein Ostrowski shows how the Library sup- bridge in 2000 remember the hush following uncharacteristically elides Greg’s move from ported the imperialist thrust of Manifest Des- Sem Sutter’s account of the fate of the Jew- the principles of editing dramatic texts to the tiny during the 1840s and 1850s through its ish libraries of Vilna in World War II, with its production of an industrial history. As bibli- collections of maps and expeditionary materi- poignant personal accounts, and the way one ographers from McKenzie on have been dem- als. He draws on catalogues, borrowing records, speaker after another demonstrated ‘man’s onstrating, Greg’s was a partial, interested his- private correspondence, and official reports to inhumanity to man’ in the destruction, not tory. His evidentiary samples (and so his un- track the uses made of the Library’s collections only of libraries, but of entire cultures, as in derstanding of trade practices) were skewed and spaces. The Library’s collection of materi- Rebecca Knuth’s story of Tibetan libraries to the dramatic texts of Shakespeare’s time. als on slavery – about the mid-nineteenth cen- under the Chinese Revolution, which she has Loewenstein’s dependence on the New Bibli- tury’s hottest political topic – were a contested since expanded on in her book Libricide. ography for aspects of his economic history matter, and its use, too, could be controversial. James Raven’s introduction to this collec- underscores the pressing need for new, com- The Library also provided recreational reading tion of papers enlarges on his own words. prehensive histories of the Stationers’ Com- materials for congressmen and their families, Then, under the title ‘The resonances of loss’ pany and the guilds of the period. Neverthe- including their wives and daughters, but some he summarises some of the more egregious less, his own scholarship is exemplary, subtle objected to the presence of women readers as losses over the millennia and brings the story in argument, lucid, and witty in expression. threatening to the prevailing doctrine of sepa- up to date with references to Bosnia and Iraq. rate gendered spheres. By depicting women His analysis of the varied causes of destruc- Kathleen Lynch solely as readers of fiction or “carelessly skim- tion sets the tone for the following chapters. Folger Shakespeare Library https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol13/iss3/1 8 et al.: Volume 13, Number 3
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... / 6 Evidence from the ancient and medieval conference) with reference to the earlier film and Vera discusses the theory and practice of worlds is harder to interpret, but here we have Storm Center and other manifestations of un- such ‘monitorial’ education popular across authoritative contributions from the late reasoning hate for independence of thought. Europe and imitated in the new Spanish- Jeremy Black on the lost libraries of ancient That theme permeates this collection, and speaking states, a system that worked Mesopotamia (the index has a ‘see also’ refer- makes it not only a monument to a fine con- synergistically with the catechism genre. While ence from Iraq, reminding us of much more ference but a valuable addition to any the modern educator will recoil in horror at recent devastation in the same region) and SHARPist’s own library. the Gradgrindian regimentation of the sys- Keith Dix on the vicissitudes of Aristotle’s Peter Hoare tem – an effect only strengthened by the illus- ‘peripatetic’ library (with links to Alexandria, Nottingham trations Vera adds, suggestive of an utterly which Raven covers in his introduction). Me- mechanized vision of education – Vera ex- dieval libraries lost through warfare, neglect F pertly and coolly shows how such a system or simpler forms of dispersal include those grew out of and supported Enlightenment of the scientist Regiomontanus, King Mat- views of society and nature. Ackermann’s cat- thew Corvinus of Hungary (whose royal ar- Eugenia Roldán Vera. The British Book Trade echisms, however, were also used widely out- chive also suffered dramatic destruction), and and Spanish American Independence: Education side the classroom, proving so popular that Duke Humfrey of Gloucester (founder of and Knowledge Transmission in Transcontinental they were appropriated, revised, and reprinted Duke Humfrey’s Library in Oxford, left empty Perspective. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003. (without permission) by Spanish American by the time Sir Thomas Bodley re-established xiv, 287p., ill., index. ISBN 0754632784. $79.95. publishers throughout the century. Vera ex- the university library). Nigel Ramsay closes the £45. amines these later appropriations in detail, story of English medieval libraries in his chap- showing how they both reflected and helped ter on the break-up of the monastic collec- Eugenia Roldán Vera’s study focuses on shape patriotic and nationalistic purposes. tions in the 16th century. the London publisher Rudolph Ackermann Vera also provides considerable details Libraries in the European eighteenth cen- (1764-1834) and his book trade in the 1820s, about Ackermann’s methods of production, tury faced other perils. The secularisation of when he was the dominant producer of Span- marketing, and distribution, as well as de- monasteries in Austria under Joseph II did ish language books for Central and South tailed analyses of costs, sales, and profits. not lead to the same tragic picture as in Eng- American markets. Vera’s book, rigorously re- Vera’s study is thus very well grounded em- land two centuries earlier, though as Friedrich searched and clearly written, is fascinating both pirically, and this gives some of her larger, Buchmayr shows their libraries suffered trau- in its detail and in its larger implications about more speculative ideas and interpretations matic dispersal. The French Revolution had a the international book trade and its impact on greater impact and credibility. For example, more aggressive approach to libraries of the post-colonial cultures. when she concludes that reading in these coun- ancien régime and the church, but respect for Vera begins with a discussion of Robert tries created a space for the readers’ incorpora- scholarship was by no means absent: Darnton’s ‘communication circuit,’ and her tion into “the perceived structures and char- Dominique Varry sets the seizures and their study is something of an extended illustra- acteristics of a modern, post-colonial order” re-locations in the context of the development tion of Darnton’s view of the book as both (168), the point has been fully supported by of librarianship in France in the 19th century. shaped by and shaping social and economic data and quoted testimony. Strictly from a More peaceful dispersal — by sale and neglect conditions. After describing the printing and methodological point of view, Vera’s book is — was the fate of some royal libraries in publishing situations in the newly independ- a fine example of how the history of the book Hanoverian England (including those of ent Spanish American states (with emphasis can help us understand certain social and po- queens described by Clarissa Campbell Orr in on Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), she litical realities in ways that traditional history an attractive presentation of court culture). shows how these new markets were exploited cannot. Across the Irish Sea, the diocesan libraries of by Ackermann in London, who worked closely Vera’s book was originally a dissertation, the (Anglican) Church of Ireland have decayed with a network of émigrés and diplomats fa- and it does bear some traces of that origin. through neglect since the 18th century when miliar with the various countries’ needs. Some points are over-elaborated, and one most of them were founded: Margaret Ackermann was obviously interested in prof- senses some anxiety on the author’s part to Connolly’s report on their history and present its, but he was also motivated by the desire to demonstrate that she is au courant with liter- state makes somewhat depressing reading to- help spread European ‘Enlightenment’ to the ary theory, as in her unnecessary rehearsal of day though they are perhaps not wholly be- emerging nations, where the hunger for Eu- the what-is-an-author debate. But these blem- yond redemption. ropean ideas and expertise was very real. ishes are few, and brief, and the study as a The chapters on the 20th century have the Ackermann, with his teams of writers and whole is a superb contribution to the field. greatest impact. Those by Sutter and Knuth, translators, set about producing an extensive already noted, are the most compelling, but series of books and magazines detailing the Raymond N. MacKenzie Rui Wang and Yulin Yang’s rediscovery of latest thinking on subjects ranging from agri- University of St Thomas ‘China’s Roosevelt Library’ is a notable re- culture, to fashion, to morality. minder of how libraries can indeed survive Vera especially emphasizes Ackermann’s the most unlikely circumstances. The book series of ‘catechisms,’ books set up in ques- ends with Robert K. Fyne’s ‘Burn the books’, tion-and-answer format and designed to be discussing Truffaut’s film Fahrenheit 451 (based objective compendia of facts. These catechisms on Ray Bradbury’s novel, and screened at the were of course well-suited to classroom use,
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the printing and publishing trade to such at- CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED CONFERENCE REPORT tacks. Stephen Brown argued that Scottish Free- Print culture research in the 21st century British Book Trade History Conference masonry was an integral part of the Scottish University of Edinburgh book trade and their egalitarian conception of Print culture and the information profes- 27-29 July 2004 knowledge accorded with the impetus of the sions are fascinatingly interrelated. To pro- Scottish Enlightenment. An examination of mote further research on Canadian as well as It’s always a mystery to fly into a city at available print culture also suggested that the non-Canadian print culture topics, the Cana- night, when the jewel-like lights confirm a organization was not as secretive as many peo- dian Journal of Information and Library Science / cityscape, but it is over to your imagination to ple like to believe. Brown provocatively ques- La Revue canadienne des sciences et de construct its dimensions. At least I had the tioned why a social organization with such a bibliothéconomie plans a theme issue for 2005. insider’s advantage of coming half way round significant membership from within the print- Library and Information Studies scholars have the world from dun-edin to edin-burgh and ing industry and amongst Scottish authors a wealth of expertise to contribute to the evo- some of the street names are the same. Never- should have been largely ignored to date. lution of print culture studies, in terms both theless, after the reassuring rivers surround- The first day concluded with a reception in of subject content and methodologies. Sub- ing Lyons’ Presqu’Ile at the SHARP confer- the National Library of Scotland which was jects include: the availability of information, ence, I had almost lost my sense of place dur- notable for its welcoming lack of formality. physical and digital, through corporate and ing a three-hour stopover at Stansted Airport. Attendees also had the opportunity to view a civic agencies such as bookstores and librar- Waking in Pollock Hall, under the shadow of well designed and headline-grabbing exhibi- ies; reader response and reader behaviours in Arthur’s Seat, I knew I was in the right place tion on the Scottish press, which was a re- print and digital environments; historical ty- when I could have black pudding for break- freshing reminder that print exhibitions can pographical and bibliographical influences on fast. seduce the eye. web design and navigation; and many more. A decent walk to reconstruct the city in day- The second morning was equally convivial, Libraries, archives and museums contrib- light and we were in the University of Edin- and a very pleasant bus ride was undertaken ute to the preservation of numerous docu- burgh Library and down to business. Lucy out of the city to Innerleithen to visit Robert ments and artifacts that allow us to investi- Lewis began appropriately with an examina- Smail’s printing works. This was a rare treat gate information transfer in historical con- tion of one of Scotland’s earliest printers, and by far the best working historical press I texts. To what extent do these institutions Chepman & Myllar, and a series of Middle have visited. The open layout and clear sepa- consciously collect, preserve and make avail- Scots literary texts published at the beginning ration of the various processes, and the able such items? Professional programmes of the 16th century. She hypothesised that these knowledgeable and friendly staff made for an of all kinds (from medicine to architecture to were produced as a sequence to appear together. informative and pleasant visit. It was particu- journalism) often emphasize the importance Taken together in this way, the works can be larly pleasing to hear of compositor Gen of a firm historical and theoretical understand- seen to reveal a dialectic between the individual Rogers’s passion for typography, and how this ing of the field. To what extent do schools and the community, reflecting a change in Scot- was shared with students at a design school of LIS foster research and scholarship sur- tish identity. At the very least the works in Edinburgh, where old school met new rounding the development of print culture, showcased the richness of the Scottish tradi- school. and information transfer generally, in West- tion and placed it in an international context. Giles Bergel’s paper on the Dicey press was ern and other societies? What is the role of Catherine Armstrong revisited a less suc- perfectly suited to refocus our minds on the book history in LIS education? cessful Scottish enterprise, the ambitious but British Book Trade as it drew directly on pre- Papers in English or French that address ultimately disastrous 17th century colonial ven- vious themes of this series of conferences, these, and related, topics for any period in ture, the Darien scheme. It was clear from the namely the Reach of Print and Print Net- history are invited for Vol 29, No 4 (Novem- responses of the local audience that this ill- works. Using network theory to contrast dis- ber 2005) of the journal. fated venture and its financial consequences tribution and circulation with an insistent The deadline for submission is 28 Febru- for Scotland were a well worn historical narra- rhetoric of place, the intersection of various ary 2005. Please send to: tive. However, Armstrong’s paper again dem- personal, religious and mercantile relation- onstrated the new insights that can be gained ships created a more evocative and less linear Fiona A. Black, Guest Editor, CJILS from an examination of contemporaneous model of print culture. School of Library & Information Studies print culture. She identified seven genres of Michael Powell’s comparatively modest Faculty of Management printed matter, described the profits made by focus on the Daisy Bank Printing and Pub- Dalhousie University printers from the colonists and the lishing Company of Manchester revealed that Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada. intertextuality of colonists’ manuscripts and such compact studies are not necessarily nar- E-mail: [email protected] newspaper copy. Her study revealed the height- row in focus. Aside from broadening the ened politicisation of the printing industry and standard appellation of ‘stationer, book- Manuscript guidelines: Please refer to “No- the growing importance of censorship to sup- binder, bookseller’ to include fruiterer, this tice to Contributors” which is included in each press both sides of the debate. The climate of paper equally evocatively captured a network issue and through the journal’s website: fear, where charges of sedition were levelled at involving magic and crime that contributed http://www.cais-acsi.ca/guidelines.htm all sides, books were burned and rewards of- both to the company and the community of fered, served to highlight the vulnerability of which it was a part. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol13/iss3/1 10 et al.: Volume 13, Number 3
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Slightly magical, too, was being piped into ingly, I left not with a sense of how much Jennifer Phegley, Educating the Proper Heriot’s School under the shadow of Edin- work there is to be done, but a challenging Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Maga- burgh Castle, where, despite the grand set- reminder of the high standards and new zines and the Cultural Health of the Nation. ting, Scottish hospitality ruled over formality insights rapidly being made by my colleagues. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University and a very fine meal was enjoyed by all. Press, 2004. The final day began with David Gants’ Noel Waite Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, Nineteenth- ambitious plans for an archaeology of the University of Otago, Design Studies Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, book that will bring catalogue information Dunedin, New Zealand Volumes 1 and 2. New Castle, DE & London: via the Early English Booktrade Database Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2004. (http://purl.oclc.org/EEBD) in a manner James Thorpe, The Gutenberg Bible: Land- that will facilitate the quantitative analysis that BIBLIOGRAPHY mark in Learning. San Marino, CA: Huntington is often hinted at but rarely embarked upon Library Press, 2004. in book history. Tom Trusky, James Castle: His Life & Art. Carrying on the theme of globalised knowl- General Boise, ID: Idaho Center for the Book, 2004. edge that belies the nationalistic title of this Kate Campbell, ed., Journalism, Literature and conference theme, Caroline Jones again astutely Modernity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Canada tracked editorial changes, this time to reveal Press, 2004. Ethel Auster and Shauna Taylor, how national myths were reconstructed in Siân Echard and Stephen Partridge, eds., Downsizing in Academic Libraries: The Canadian Angus & Robertson’s Australian Encyclope- The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Experience. Toronto: University of Toronto dia. Wal Kirsop roused us with an upbeat Manuscripts and Texts. Toronto: University of Press, 2004. celebration of Melbourne’s ‘Palace of the In- Toronto Press, 2004. Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gillies Gallichan, tellect’, Cole’s Book Arcade which clamorously Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie, eds., and Yvan Lamonde, History of the Book in crossed the threshold from stall to mall. Nicole Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction Canada: Volume One: Beginnings to 1840. To- Matthews, similarly, reminded us of the col- of Shakespeare’s Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge ronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. our of books, reading the materiality of University Press, 2004. Danielle Fuller, Writing the Everyday: Wom- dustjackets. At a more pragmatic level, my own Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, eds., Argu- en’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada. paper benefited from the ability to borrow a ing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Me- Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, map of New Zealand from Edinburgh Li- dium. Jackson, MS: University Press of Missis- 2004. brary’s New Zealand collection (notable for sippi, 2004. Faye Hammill, Literary Culture and Female its intriguing bookplates). Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-François Vallée, Authorship in Canada, 1760-2000. Amsterdam/ I have to admit that I timed my plane Printed Voices: The Renaissance Culture of Dia- New York: Rodopi, 2003. flights a little too efficiently to the end of the logue. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Paul Voisey, High River and the Times: An conference and had to rush away at the close, 2004. Alberta Community and Its Weekly Newspaper, so I take this opportunity to thank Bill Bell Simone Murray, Mixed Media: Feminist Presses 1905-1966. Edmonton: University of Alberta and the team at the Centre for the History of and Publishing Politics. London: Pluto Press, Press, 2004. the Book for a conference that tread that fine 2004. balance of being wide-ranging but not ram- David Norton, A Textual History of the China bling, cohesive but not narrow, informative King James Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- Bob Adamson, China’s English: A History but not impenetrable – all the traits that drew versity Press, 2004. of English in Chinese Education. Seattle, WA: me to book history in the first place. Refresh- University of Washington, 2004.
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Ellen Johnston Laing, Selling Happiness: Mark Hampton, Visions of the Press in Brit- Marilyn S. Greenwald, The Secret of the Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twen- ain, 1850-1950. Champaign, IL: University of Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer tieth-Century Shanghai. Honolulu, HI: Univer- Illinois, 2004. Syndicate. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, sity of Hawai’i, 2004. Samantha Matthews, Poetical Remains - Po- 2004. Bonnie S. McDougall, Fictional Authors, ets’ Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Sarah Robbins, Managing Literacy, Mother- Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ing America: Women’s Narratives on Reading and in the Twentieth Century. Hong Kong: The 2004. Writing in the Nineteenth Century. Pittsburgh, Chinese University Press, 2004. David McKitterick, A History of Cambridge PA: University of Pittsburgh, 2004. Unversity Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learn- Cynthia L. Stone, In Place of Gods and Kings: India ing, 1873–1972. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- Authorship and Identity in the Relación de David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn, eds., versity Press, 2004. Michoacán. Norman, OK: University of Okla- Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, John. R. Roberts, John Donne – An Anno- homa, 2004. and Life History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana tated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1979- Patrick Vincent, The Romantic Poetess: Euro- University Press, 2004. 1995. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University pean Culture, Politics, and Gender, 1820-1840. Press, 2004. Lebanon, NH: University of New England Italy Cathy Shrank, Writing the Nation in Refor- Press, 2004. George W. McClure, The Culture of Profes- mation England, 1530-1580. Oxford: Oxford sion in Late Renaissance Italy. Toronto: Univer- University Press, 2004. Electronic Resources sity of Toronto Press, 2004. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Cata- New Zealand logue of incunables. United Kingdom Anna Green and Megan Hutching, eds., http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/cocoon/ Stuart Bennett, Trade Bookbinding in the Brit- Remembering: Writing Oral History. Auckland: bsbink/start.html ish Isles, 1660-1800. New Castle, DE & Lon- Auckland University Press, 2004. don: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, British Library, Digital Catalogue of Illumi- 2004. United States nated Manuscripts. Gillian Brennan, Patriotism, Power and Print: Anne E. Boyd, Writing for Immortality: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/ National Consciousness in Tudor England. Pitts- Women and the Emergence of High Literary Cul- illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm burgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2003. ture in America. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry University Press, 2004. Katherine Harris, Forget Me Not: A VIII and his Wives. London: The British Li- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, The Gender of Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann’s Literary brary, 2004. Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Annual. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, eds., Rogues Public Sphere. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Univer- http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ womenstudies/ and Early Modern English Culture. Ann Arbor, sity Press, 2004. FMN%20Hypertext> MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Loren Glass, Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity Marcella D. Genz, A History of the Eragny in the Modern United States, 1880-1980. New Harry Ransom Humanities Research Press, 1894-1914. New Castle, DE & London: York, NY: New York University Press, 2004. Center, The Gutenberg Bible at the Harry Ran- Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2004. som Center, CD-ROM edition. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004.
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