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 Ten - 2007

Laura Cruz. The Secrets of Success: Microinventions and Bookselling in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Jeffrey Glover. Thomas Lechford's Plain Dealing: Censorship and Cosmopolitan Print Culture in the English Atlantic

Richard Yeo. Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment

Keri A. Berg. Contesting the Page: The Author and the Illustrator in France, 1830-1848

Matt Miller. Composing the First Leaves of Grass: How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks

Solveig C. Robinson. "Sir, It is an Outrage": George Bentley, Robert Black, and the Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain

Shafquat Towheed. Geneva v. St. Petersburg: Two Concepts of Literary Property and the Material Lives of Books in Under Western Eyes

Erin A. Smith. "'What Would Jesus Do?": The Social Gospel and the Literary Marketplace

Matthew C. Fishburn. Books are Weapons: Wartime Responses to the Nazi Bookfires of 1933

The State of the Discipline:

1. Cynthia Brokaw. Book History in Premodern China
2. Christopher A. Reed. Modern Chinese Print and Publishing Culture