Book History:
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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.

Volume Seven - 2004

John A. Buchtel. Book Dedications and the Death of a Patron: The Memorial Engraving in Chapman's Homer

Shlomo Berger. An Invitation to Buy and Read: Paratexts of Yiddish Books in Amsterdam 1650-1800

Neil Safier. "...To Collect and Abridge...Without Changing Anything Essential": Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi

Thomas S. Kidd. Recovering The French Convert: Views of the French and the Uses of Anti-Catholicism in Early America

Cree LeFavour. "Jane Eyre Fever? Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of Charlotte Bronté in Antebellum America

Barbara Hochman. Uncle Tom in the National Era: An Essay in Generic Norms and the Contexts of Reading

Iris Parush, translated by Saadya Sternberg. Another Look at "The Life of 'Dead' Hebrew: Intentional Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society and Its Effects on Modern Hebrew Literature and Its Readership

Lisa Lindell. Bringing Books to a "Book-Hungry Land" Print Culture on the Dakota Plains

Willa Z. Silverman. "Books Worthy of Our Era: Octave Uzanne, Technology, and the Luxury Book in fin de siècle France

Peter D. McDonald. The Writer, the Critic, and the Censor: J. M. Coetzee and the Question of Literature

The State of the Discipline:
Leah Price. Reading