Book History, vol. 11
336 pages | 28 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 2008
ISBN 978-0-271-03418-8 | cloth: $57.00 sh
Paperback edition is not available
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
The Secrets of Success: Microinventions and Bookselling in the Seventeenth–Century Netherlands
By Laura Cruz
Thomas Lechford's Plain Dealing: Censorship and Cosmopolitan Print Culture in the English Atlantic
By Jeffrey Glover
Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment
By Richard Yeo
Contesting the Page: The Author and the Illustrator in France, 1830–1848
By Keri A. Berg
Composing the First Leaves of Grass: How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks
By Matt Miller
"Sir, It Is an Outrage": George Bentley, Robert Black, and the Condition of the Mid–List Author in Victorian Britain
By Solveig C. Robinson
Geneva v. Saint Petersburg: Two Concepts of Literary Property and the Material Lives of Books in Under Western Eyes
By Shafquat Towheed
"What Would Jesus Do?": The Social Gospel and the Literary Marketplace
By Erin A. Smith
Books Are Weapons: Wartime Responses to the Nazi Bookfires of 1933
By Matthew C. Fishburn
Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I
By Cynthia Brokaw
Modern Chinese Print and Publishing Culture: The State of the Discipline II
By Christopher A. Reed
Contributors