SHARP News Volume 23 | Number 3 Article 1 Summer 2014 Volume 23, Number 3 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news Recommended Citation (2014) "Volume 23, Number 3," SHARP News: Vol. 23: No. 3. Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol23/iss3/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in SHARP News by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. et al.: Volume 23, Number 3 SHARP NEWS Volume 23, Number 3 Summer 2014 discussion of Random House’s first (author- Smith College offered a response to the three CONFERENCE REPORT ized) American publication of James Joyce’s papers, drawing them together and pointing Ulysses. Nielsen revisited the contemporary out resonances that the panelists themselves controversy about Samuel Roth’s “pirate” may not have seen. publication of the novel in his Two Worlds Lise Jaillant organized the final SHARP- SHARP at the Monthly and showed how that flap (and the sponsored session, “Book History and 129th MLA Annual Convention copyright problems that allowed Roth to print Digital Humanities.” Six presenters – Greg Chicago Ulysses) influenced Bennett Cerf ’s design of Hickman, Michael Gavin, Andrew Stauffer, 9–12 January 2014 his edition and inclusion of such paratexts as Matthew Lavin, Hannah McGregor, and Eliz- a foreword by attorney Morris Ernst, Judge abeth Wilson-Gordon – offered stimulating SHARP, whose affiliate-organization status Woolsey’s decision, and a letter by Joyce au- looks at digital projects whose focus spanned with the Modern Language Association was thorizing the edition. from the age of incunabula to the twentieth renewed for another seven years, sponsored In recent years SHARP has partnered with century and whose methodologies often three panels at the 2014 Modern Language other MLA affiliate organizations to present invoked the next generation of the digital if Association conference. Typical of SHARP, joint panels. This year the International Vir- not bibliographical, too. Full details of the the panels’ topics stretched from the earliest ginia Woolf Society teamed up with SHARP roundtable appear in an Early Modern Online days of printing to twenty-first-century digital to offer three papers on “Woolf and Book Bibliography post (<http://wp.me/xiTA>) humanities. These panels conveyed to the History.” Beth Daugherty of Otterbein Uni- and on <http://sharpweb.org>. attendees and presenters alike the continu- versity described the contents of the young It wasn’t all work. SHARP held its first ing importance of book history even as the Virginia Stephen’s library (now held at Wash- “cash bar” – an MLA-sanctioned social hour profession increasingly welcomes digitally ington State University) and speculated on – on the conference’s opening night. A small based scholarship. how the books she owned and read as a young but convivial group of book historians had SHARP’s official panel, on “Books and the woman shaped her later work as a writer. the opportunity to socialize, meet new col- Law,” surveyed several different aspects of University of Pittsburgh graduate student leagues, and exchange ideas. the regulation of books. Andrew Bricker of Amanda Miller – ably giving her first presen- Book history, in both “analog” and digital Stanford University described what he called tation ever – and Stanford University’s Alice forms, is increasingly visible at the MLA the “artful means” used by participants in the Stavely then turned to Woolf’s work with the conferences: and a good thing, too. In 2015 illicit book trade in the eighteenth century Hogarth Press. Miller offered a careful bib- in Vancouver, SHARP will again offer several to get their books out, and to let potential liographical description of one of Hogarth’s panels, including a collaborative panel with purchasers know where (and how) they could first titles Monday( or Tuesday, a story collection the Milton Society of America. find this material. Often, Bricker showed, including “Kew Gardens” and “The Mark on these books hid in plain sight: A Treatise on the Wall”), focusing particularly on Vanessa Greg Barnhisel the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs wasn’t a Bell’s woodcut illustrations as an early example Duquesne University, Pittsburgh medical study. of the sisters’ enduring collaboration. Virginia Eleanor Shevlin Robert Steele, law librarian at George and Leonard, novice printers, tended to over- West Chester University, PA Washington University, moved forward to the ink these woodcuts, as Miller showed, leaving nineteenth century to talk about the French ink stains bleeding through and staining op- poet and lyricist Pierre-Jean de Béranger. posite pages. Béranger’s songs “focused widespread op- In a challenging, beautifully written paper, CONTENTS position” to the Bourbon monarchy and Staveley moved away from the smudged page circulated “by word of mouth, in manuscript, and called attention to the ways that Woolf’s CONFERENCE REPORT 1 and in print.” Convicted of “outrage against work, like that of so many other women THE PREZ SPEAKS 2 public and religious morality” for circulating printers and publishers, has been effaced FELLOWSHIPS 3 his banned works, Béranger served a three- from the history of printing and publishing. BOOK REVIEWS 4 month sentence – but then, while still in jail, Staveley excavated buried traces of Woolf’s LECTURE REVIEWS 17 published the complete trial transcript, which work as a printer from her own texts and included all the condemned poems. argued that her work as a hand-printer has a MOVING ON 18 Columbia University rare-books librarian profound, unacknowledged presence in her EXHIBITION REVIEWS 18 Karla Nielson concluded the panel with a novels and stories. Finally, Karen Kukil of BIBLIOGRAPHY 20 Published by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2014 1 SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 3 [2014], Art. 1 2 c SUmmER 2014 SHARP NEWS VOL. 23, NO. 3 As some of you will know, SHARP mem- SHARP NEWS THE PREZ SPEAKS ber Susan Pickford has been chairing a com- mittee that is looking to translate key articles EDITOR on book history for the benefit of members. Sydney Shep, Wai-te-ata Press I’m writing this in mid-June – the end The first stage of the project, to be unveiled Victoria University of Wellington of the academic year for British universities at Antwerp, is the translation into English of PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand 6140 and for many elsewhere in Europe – and, by a selection of articles from French, German, [email protected] the time you read this, our twenty-second Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese, and Chinese. The annual conference in Antwerp will be all but committee is also exploring potential future EDITORIAL ASSISTANT – 23.3 upon us, if not actually passed. Indeed, the directions, including publishing monographs Sara Bryan Call for Papers for the 2015 conference, to and setting up an online journal for special Publication Assistant, Wai-te-ata Press be held in Longueuil & Montréal, Canada, issues on specific themes. A roundtable on will have been issued, and many of you will SHARP and translation will be held at Ant- already be thinking about possible proposals. werp, and all members are warmly welcomed REVIEW EDITORS to attend. The committee itself covers major Joanna Howe, Books – Europe When you come to do so, you should find the online software system to be very similar to European languages as well as Sanskrit, Bath Spa University, UK that used for Antwerp, but there will be one Croatian, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, [email protected] Korean, Hindi, and Bengali, but Susan is keen Millie Jackson, Books – Americas key difference: the software will be hosted and maintained by SHARP rather than the to hear from people with knowledge of other University of Alabama, AL, USA host institution. The selection process will languages (including Scandinavian languages, [email protected] which are a gap at the moment): <susan.pick- Susann Liebich, Books –Australasia/Pacific still involve a committee of scholars, mostly appointed by the conference organisers, [email protected]>. SHARP members James Cook University, QLD, AUS but the software and data management will are also invited to nominate works they’d like [email protected] to see in English translation, with a brief Abhijit Gupta, Books – South Asia now be SHARP’s sole responsibility. From a would-be speaker’s point of view, little will description of each work and an argument Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India change (although you should be able to use for its inclusion. [email protected] Lisa Pon, Exhibitions the same account each time you submit a proposal) but from SHARP’s perspective it Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University Southern Methodist University, TX, USA allows us to ease some of the logistical bur- June 2014 [email protected] <[email protected]> Molly Hardy, E-Resources den on each set of conference organisers as well as enabling us to maintain an archive of American Antiquarian Society, MA, USA proposals from one conference to the next. Incidentally, we have long been aware that [email protected] All SHARP conferences from 2015 onwards the vagaries of print production and distri- BIBLIOGRAPHER will use this system. bution mean that SHARP News is received Cecile M. Jagodzinski We hope to announce the venue for by members across the world a good while Lancaster, NY, USA SHARP 2016 very soon; we are also already after it’s sent to the printers, and that delivery [email protected] in discussions with possible hosts for 2017 times vary considerably according to region. and 2018. However, just how long this could take didn’t become clear until the last issue in which I SUBSCRIPTIONS A few other developments gave details about the Futures consultation The Johns Hopkins University Press SHARP is finalising an archival policy.