Book History:
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BOOK HISTORY is a scholarly journal devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the creation, dissemination, reception, and use of script, print, and mediacy. The journal publishes research on authorship, editing, printing, publishing, media, the book arts, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response. The journal is open to all disciplines and methodologies, and it will consider articles dealing with any literary culture and any historical period.

Volume Thirteen - 2010

Charlotte Eubanks. Circumambulatory Reading: Revolving Sutra Libraries and Buddhist Scrolls

Spencer D. C. Keralis. Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers

Troy J. Bassett. Living on the Margin: George Bentley and the Economics of the Three-Volume Novel, 1865–1870 58

Leslee Thorne-Murphy. Re-Authorship: Authoring, Editing, and Coauthoring the Transatlantic Publications of Charlotte M. Yonge’s Aunt Charlotte’s Stories of Bible History

Alison Rukavina. A Victorian Amazon.com: Edward Petherick and His Colonial Booksellers’ Agency

Joseph S. Meisel. American University Presses, 1929–1979: Adaptation and Evolution

Sari Kawana. Reading Beyond the Lines: Young Readers and Wartime Japanese Literature

Greg Barnhisel. Cold Warriors of the Book: American Book Programs in the 1950s

Richard Fine. American Authorship and the Ghost of Moral Rights

The State of the Discipline:
Leon Jackson. The Talking Book and the Talking Book Historian: African American Cultures of Print
 
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Book History is co-edited by Ezra Greenspan (Southern Methodist University) and Jonathan Rose (Drew University). It is published by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) as a hardcover annual and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press. Tables of contents can be browsed here:

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