Bibliographical Society of Canada
2013 Annual Meeting

3 - 4 June 2013
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Victoria

Historically, Canadian print culture has been defined, in part, by our place at the distant edge of the British Empire as well as by our place on the northern edge of the United States. This edge has often been represented as a negative space, at some distance from the cultural center both geographically and ideologically, but “the edge” can also be represented as a vibrant and creative space for the meeting between old and new, between traditional and radical thinking, or between outmoded and progressive approaches. Researchers engaged in the fields of bibliography, book history, and print culture are asked to consider the implications of authorship and writing, publishing and bookselling, as well as reading and reception from “the edge.”