Book History

OOK 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.

In December 1999, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals selected Book History as “Best New Journal” of the year. The awards committee praised its “impressive range” and “sustained engagement with the subject,” and predicted “real staying power on the academic landscape.” In the years since, the journal has fulfilled this early promise and become a well-established and influential leader in its field.

Guidelines for Submission

Contributions will be accepted on a year-round basis, with a submission deadline of August 31 for inclusion in the following year's volume. Authors should send to the appropriate editor one copy of their work – either in hard copy or in electronic form as a Microsoft Word file, or both – which should be typed double spaced (including notes and citations) and documented in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style. The manuscript may be submitted as an email attachment, after advance notice to the editor. The title page should include the author's name, telephone number, postal address, and E-mail address. Contributors are welcome to submit illustrations and graphs with their texts. Due to the journal's book-length format, essays of unusual length are welcome. Submissions acceptable to the editors will be double reviewed by outside experts in the field.

The editors of BOOK HISTORY award an annual prize for the outstanding graduate student essay submitted to our journal. The competition is open to anyone pursuing a course of graduate studies at the time of submission. The deadline for submission for each editorial year is 31 August. The author of the winning essay will receive a prize of $400, and the essay will be published in the journal.

Articles dealing with any part of the American hemisphere, Judaica, or the Middle East should be submitted to:

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Department of English
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275-0435
USA

All other articles should be submitted to:

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Department of History
Drew University
Madison, NJ 07940
USA