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 Fourteen - 2011

Katherine Ellison. Millions of Millions of Distinct Orders: Multimodality in Seventeenth-Century Cryptography Manuals

Cynthia S. Hamilton. Spreading the Word: The American Tract Society, The Dairyman's Daughter, and Mass Publishing

Richard K. Popp. Making Advertising Material: Checking Departments, Systematic Reading, and Geographic Order in Nineteenth-Century Advertising

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. A Diplomatic Salto Mortale: Translation Trouble in Berne, 1884-1886

Jennifer Burek Pierce. What Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sexual Health Texts in the Early Twentieth Century

Lise Jaillant. Sapper, Hodder & Stoughton, and the Popular Literature of the Great War

Marius Hentea. Late Modernist Debuts: Publishing and Professionalizing Young Novelists in 1920s Britain

Christina Spittel. A Portable Monument? Leonard Mann's Flesh in Armour and Australia's Memory of the First World War

Susan Pickford. The Booker Prize and the Prix Goncourt: A Case Study of Award-Winning Novels in Translation

Eva Mroczek. Thinking Digitally About the Dead Sea Scrolls: Book History Before and Beyond the Book

The State of the Discipline:
Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche. The History of Books and Print Culture in Japan
 
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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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