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 Eight - 2005

Kay Amert. Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne

Paul Patterson. Reforming Chaucer: Margins and Religion in an Apocryphal Canterbury Tale

Roger Chartier, translated by Maurice Elton. Crossing Borders in Early Modern Europe: Sociology of Texts and Literature

Richard Gassan. The First American Tourist Guidebooks: Authorship and the Print Culture of the 1820s

Jonathan R. Topham. John Limbird, Thomas Byerley, and the Production of Cheap Periodicals in the 1820s

Joanne E. Passet. Freethought, Children's Literature and the Construction of Religious Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Patricia May B. Jurilla Florante at Laura and the History of the Filipino Book

Valerie Holman. Carefully Concealed Connections: The Ministry of Information and British Publishing, 1939-1946

Caroline Davis. The Politics of Postcolonial Publishing: Oxford University Press's Three Crowns Series 1962-76

Joseph Ripp. Middle America Meets Middle-Earth: American Discussion and Readership of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, 1965-1969

The State of the Discipline:
Christine Haynes. Reassessing "Genius" in Studies of Authorship
 
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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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