Book History, vol. 5
304 pages | 29 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 2001
ISBN 978-0-271-02245-1 | cloth: $56.00 sh
Paperback edition is not available
Winner of the 2000 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP).
Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.
Ezra Greenspan is Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Among his many publications is George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (Penn State Press, 2000).
Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. His publications include The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation; The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes; and (with Simon Eliot) A Companion to the History of the Book.
Contents
Morton's Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England,
Matt Cohen
Adults
Only? Children and Children's Books in British Circulating Libraries,
1748-1848,
M. O. Grenby
Internationalizing
Book Distribution in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Origins of
Finnish Bookselling, Jyrki Hakapää Franz
Josef's Time Machine: Images of Modernity in the Era of Mechanical
Photoreproduction,
Marija Dalbello
Dickinson
as Child's Fare: The Author Served Up in St. Nicholas,
Ingrid Satelmajer
Seeking
"Significance": Actual Readers, Specific Reading Communities,
Christine Pawley
Corporate
Publishing and Canonization: Neuromancer and Science-Fiction Publishing
in the 1970s and Early 1980s,
Sarah Brouillette
No
Longer Left Behind: Amazon.com, Reader-Response, and the Changing
Fortunes of the Christian Novel in America,
Paul Gutjahr