Book History, Volume 6Book 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. |
Contents
EighteenthCentury British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History | 1 |
Early Print Cultures in Colonial India | 23 |
Reveries of a Bachelor and the Rhetoric of Detached Intimacy | 57 |
Scots and Print Culture in New Zealand 18601900 | 95 |
Japan and the Internationalization of the Serial Fiction Market | 109 |
The Colonial Market Imperial Publishers and the Demise of the ThreeDecker Novel | 127 |
Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies 18801920 | 147 |
The Case of Frank Swinnerton | 175 |
Who Owns the Means of Cultural Production? The Soviet Yiddish Publishing Industry of the 1920s | 197 |
Resistance and Conformity in the Publishing Practices of F R Leavis | 227 |
RePublishing the Great Books in the United States in the 1990s | 251 |
The Politics of Print The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America | 277 |
Contributors | 307 |
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