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 Nine - 2006

Sarah Covington. Paratextual Strategies in Thieleman van Braght's Martyrs' Mirror

Emma Jay. Queen Caroline's Library and its European Contexts

Jeff Loveland. Unifying Knowledge and Dividing Disciplines: The Development of Treatises in the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Melissa Free. Un-Erasing Crusoe: Farther Adventures in the Nineteenth Century

Andie Tucher. Reporting for Duty: The Bohemian Brigade, the Civil War, and the Social Construction of the Reporter

Ellen Gruber Garvey. Anonymity, Authorship, and Recirculation: A Civil War Episode

Bernadette A. Lear. Book History in Scarlet Letters: The Beginning and Growth of a College Yearbook during the Gilded Age

Emily Oswald. Imagining Race: Illustrating the Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Ronald Jenn. From American Frontier to European Borders: Publishing French Translations of Mark Twain's Novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1884-1963)

Michelle Denise Smith. Soup Cans and Love Slaves: National Politics and Cultural Authority in the Editing and Authorship of Canadian Pulp Magazines

The State of the Discipline:
David S. Miall. Empirical Approaches to Studying Literary Readers
 
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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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Membership in SHARP includes a subscription to SHARP News and all other SHARP publications. For more information about the benefits of membership, see our Membership page. Institutions may order subscriptions to our annual publication, Book History through Johns Hopkins University Press or phone 1-800-548-1784, or 410-516-6987.