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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 Fifteen - 2012

Gaby M. Mahlberg. Authors Losing Control: The European Transformations of Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668)

Michael Gavin. Writing Print Cultures Past: Literary Criticism and Book History

Paula McDowell. Of Grubs and Other Insects: Constructing the Categories of "Ephemera" and "Literature" in Eighteenth-Century British Writing"

Pieter François. If It's 1815, This Must Be Belgium: The Origins of the Modern Travel Guide

Katherine Bode. "Sidelines" and Trade Lines: Publishing the Australian Novel, 1860-1899

Kathy Roberts Forde and Katherine A. Foss. "The Facts--the Color!--the Facts": The Idea of a Report in American Print Culture, 1885-1910

Kinohi Nishikawa. Race, Respectability, and the Short Life of Duke Magazine

Daniel Platt. An Icon Adrift: The Modern Library in the 1990s

Alan Galey. The Enkindling Reciter: E-Books in the Bibliographical Imagination

Elizabeth le Roux. Book History in the African World: The State of the Discipline
 
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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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