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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 Twelve - 2009

Elizabeth Yale. With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists Invented the Archive

Jeffrey Todd Knight. "Furnished" for Auction: Renaissance Books as Furniture

Sharon Murphy. Imperial Reading? The East India Company's Lending Libraries for Soldiers, c. 1819-1834

Emily B. Todd. Establishing Routes for Fiction in the United States: Walter Scott's Novels and the Early Nineteenth-Century American Publishing Industry

Teresa A. Goddu. The Antislavery Almanac and the Discourse of Numeracy

Mike Esbester. Nineteenth-Century Timetables and the History of Reading

Michael Anesko. Collected Editions and the Consolidation of Cultural Authority: The Case of Henry James

Jennifer J. Connor. Stalwart Giants: Medical Cosmopolitanism, Canadian Authorship, and American Publishers

Kathleen McDowell. Toward a History of Children as Readers, 1890-1930

Claire Parfait. Rewriting History: The Publication of W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America (1935)

Alice Staveley. Marketing Virginia Woolf: Women, War, and Public Relations in Three Guineas

The State of the Discipline:
Ben Kafka. Paperwork
 
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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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