Masthead reads: Winter 2000-01 / This is the Winter 2000-01 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: GUEST COMMENT: SMILLA RULES: EXPLORING TRANSLATION STUDIES AND BOOK HISTORY; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; RELATED SOCIETIES; NOTES & QUERIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES & COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE. This issue includes the following contributions: GUEST COMMENT: SMILLA RULES: EXPLORING TRANSLATION STUDIES AND BOOK HISTORY, by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (pp. 1-4); The Great New Zealand Round-up, by Sydney Shep (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (p. 4); Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Update on Activities, by Laurel Brake (RELATED SOCIETIES) (p. 5); Call for ASECS/SHARP Research Entries (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 5); The Impact of the Journalist-Critic, 1900-40: Panel for MLA 2001, New Orleans, LA, 27-30 December 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 5-6); Rosamond Lehmann and the Craft of Letters, Université de Marne La Vallée and Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, Paris, France, 28-29 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada: Open Conference for Volume III (1918-2000), Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 15-18 November 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ) Conference, Adelaide University, South Australia, Australia, 27-28 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); People of the Book: Explorations in Jewish Publishing and Bibliography, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 4 March 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 7-8); American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) SHARP Panel, New Orleans, LA, 18-22 April 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); History of the Book in Canada Open Conference: Volume 2, 1840-1918, McGill University and Bibliothéque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Canada, 18-19 May 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); The Centre for Writing, Publishing and Printing History at the University of Reading Public Lecture Series, Spring 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); Sandars Lectures 2001, University Library, Cambridge, 28 February, 7 and 14 March 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); History of the Book: The Next Generation, Drew University, 16 September 2000, by Jonathan Rose (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 8-9); American Printing History Association (APHA) Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY, 20-21 October 2000, by Judy Donnelly (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 9-10); Professional Readers: Libraries for the Church and the Professions to 1850, Institute of English Studies, University of London, England, 28 October 2000, by Keith Manley (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 10-11); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada Open Conference for Volume 1: Beginnings to 1840, University of Toronto, 24-25 November 2000, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 11-12); BOOK REVIEWS, by Candy Gunther Brown, Ralph Hanna, Maureen Bell (pp. 12-14); Library History Group of the Library Association (UK) (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16); SHARP Wins APHA Award (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16).

This is the Winter 2006 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon, Tina Ray Murray; Bibliographer: Robert N. Matuozzi. CONTENTS: MODERN BOOK HISTORY; HIGHAM ARCHIVE; THE SHARP EDGE; THE BOOK COLLECTOR; PRIZES; BOOK REVIEWS; EDITORS' REPLY; BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR; EXHIBITION REVIEWS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; SHARPIST APPOINTED; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: MODERN BOOK HISTORY, by Patrick Buckridge (p. 1); HIGHAM ARCHIVE, by Noah Mass (pp. 1-2); Literary Replication: James Secord's Victorian Sensation & Models of Book History (THE SHARP EDGE), by Leslie Howsam (pp. 3-4); THE BOOK COLLECTOR, by Nicolas Barker (pp. 4-5); Justin Winsor Prize (PRIZES) (p. 5); Robert A. Colby Prize (PRIZES) (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Douglas Martin, Andrew Piper, Caroline Sumpter, Ronald Lieberman, Claire Squires, Catherine Dille, Ittai Joseph Tamari, William Hughes, Madison U. Sowell, Diana Kichuk (pp. 6-11); EDITORS' REPLY, by Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott (p. 11); The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 13 September 2005-15 January 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Arlene Shaner (p. 12); Two Exhibitions of the Gutenberg Bible (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Elizabeth Ross (pp. 12-13); Education & the Culture of Print in Modern America: Authors, Publishers, Readers, & More Since 1876, Madison, Wisconsin, 29-30 September 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 13-14); Media in the Enlarged Europe: An International Conference on Policy, Industry, Aesthetics & Creativity, University of Luton, UK, 5-6 May 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 14); 1968: Global Resistance/Local Knowledge, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 3-4 November 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 14); Further Transactions of the Book, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, USA, 9-11 March 2006 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 15).

This is the Autumn 2004 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier, Lisa Pon; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: SHARP LYON 2004; THE SHARP EDGE; BOOK HISTORY PRIZE; NEW SHARP AWARD; GRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE; SHARP HALIFAX 2005; NEW EXHIBITIONS REVIEWER; BOOK REVIEWS; CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED; CONFERENCE REPORT; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP LYON 2004, by Frank de Glas (pp. 1-2), Gary Kelly (pp. 2, 4-5), Bertrum H. MacDonald (p. 5); Rethinking Book History in France (THE SHARP EDGE), by Christine Haynes (pp. 3-4); DeLong Family Endows SHARP Book History Prize (BOOK HISTORY PRIZE) (p. 5); Navigating Texts & Contexts (SHARP HALIFAX 2005) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Erin A. Smith, Kathleen Lynch, Christine Pawley, Peter Hoare, Raymond N. MacKenzie (pp. 7-9); Print Culture Research in the 21st Century (CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED) (p. 10); British Book Trade History Conference, University of Edinburgh, 27-29 July 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORT), by Noel Waite (pp. 10-11).

null / This is the Summer 1996 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Philip A. Metzger. CONTENTS: WORCESTER CONFERENCE HOSTS RECORD TURNOUT, CREATES FUND TO AID GRADUATE STUDENTS; CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION: 1997 CONFERENCE AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; NEW SHARP SCHOLARLY JOURNAL NOW SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS; NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR 1997 ELECTIONS OF SHARP OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS; SCHOLARS HONOR D.F. MCKENZIE WITH ANNUAL LECTURE AND TEACHING AWARD; THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AUSTRALIA: A REPORT FROM THE FIELD; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; COURSES & SEMINARS; LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; RESOURCES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK REVIEWS, by Germaine Warkentin (pp. 5-6).

This is the Spring 1997 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: IN MY VIEW; THE TITLE AS A TEACHING TOOL; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; CALL FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; EXHIBITIONS; COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; BOOK REVIEWS; BRIEF NOTICES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW, by Robert L. Patten (pp. 1-2); THE TITLE AS A TEACHING TOOL, by Eleanor Shevlin (pp. 2-4); Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture; American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Conference; History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) 1997 Conference (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); History of the Book in Canada; Re-reading the Past: New Methodologies and Approaches to the History of the Book; School of Criticism and Theory; Sources, Exemplars, and Copy-Texts: Influence and Transmission, 1350-1550; Canterbury Tales Project; Defining Print Cultures for Youth: Children and Reading Since 1876; National School of Information & Library Science; Writing and New Technologies in South-Mediterranean Countries; In Visible Languages: The Visible Dimensions of Print Culture; Macmillan Archive; International Association of Scholarly Publishers (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (pp. 4-5); SHARP/ASA Caucus; American Literature Association (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 5-6); Edward Clark Seminars; Habits of Reading in Early Modern England; Old English Literature in Its Manuscript Context; 1997 Programme of Events of the Printing Historical Society (LECTURES AND SEMINARS) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Brian Hillyard, David Hunter, Lee N. McLaird, Kate Levin, D.R. Woolf (pp. 6-9).

null / This is the Summer 1992 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Monotype Bodoni. Acting Editor: Linda E. Connors. CONTENTS: THE INTERNATIONAL LEIPZIGER ARBEITSKREIS ZUR GESCHICHTE DES BUCHWESENS; OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; NOTES AND QUERIES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: New Center for the History of the Book (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 2); Three Sister Publications (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 2); Book History Projects in St. Petersburg (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 2); Book History Exhibit (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 3); New Book and Graphic Arts Organization (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 3); HOW WE ARE DOING, by Jonathan Rose (p. 7).

This is the Winter 2003 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: SHARP CONFERENCE 2003; SHARP AWARDS; LECTURES AND COURSES; EDITOR'S NEWS; THE SHARP EDGE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; RELATED SOCIETY; CONFERENCE REPORT; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP Conference 2003, by James L.W. West III (p. 1); Surveying the (Battle) Field: Book History, SHARP, and the Guerilla Tactics of Research (THE SHARP EDGE), by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (pp. 3-4); The Community Library: Library History Group of the Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals, Glasgow, Scotland, 19 August 2002. (CONFERENCE REPORT), by Chris Baggs (pp. 5-6); The British Book Trade Index (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES), by John Hinks (p. 6); An International History of the Book? (CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS), by Simon Eliot (p. 7); and BOOK REVIEWS, by Betty Bright, Oliver B. Pollak, Carol Percy, Jeffrey Brooks, Mary Lu MacDonald, Janet Sorenson, Maureen E. Mulvihill (pp. 8-12).

Masthead date for this issue reads: Winter 1995-96. / This is the Winter 1995-96 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose; Book Review Editor: Philip A. Metzger. CONTENTS: ULSTER COLLOQUIUM TO PLAN A HISTORY OF THE IRISH BOOK; SHARP WILL SPONSOR SESSIONS AT AHA, ASECS, AND MLA CONFERENCES; COLUMBIA BEGINS UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON "THE BOOK IN HISTORY"; BOOK AND LIBRARY HISTORY PROGRAM AT LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN; BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES: A COURSE SYLLABUS; PRINT, LITERACY, AND POWER IN AMERICA: A COURSE SYLLABUS; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; COURSES & SEMINARS; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; ON THE INTERNET; NOTES & QUERIES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK AND LIBRARY HISTORY PROGRAM AT LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN, by Steingrimur Jonsson (pp. 2-3); BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES: A COURSE SYLLABUS, by Daniel Traister (pp. 3-4); PRINT, LITERACY, AND POWER IN AMERICA: A COURSE SYLLABUS, by Mary Kay Duggan (pp. 4-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Richard W. Clement (p. 6); ON THE INTERNET, by Patrick Leary (pp. 9-10).

null / This is the Spring 2001 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: GUEST COMMENT; LETTERS; RESOURCES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; EXHIBITIONS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: Post-Colonial Reflections on the Late Victorian Fiction Business, by Elizabeth Morrison (GUEST COMMENT) (pp. 1-4); From London to St. Louis: The Contents of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, by James E. Tierney (RESOURCES) (pp. 5-6); The Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, by Joseph Chaves (RESOURCES) (pp. 6-7); Study Meeting on the City and the Book, Florence, Italy, 30 May-1 June 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 7); Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century, Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University, 14-16 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 7-8); Printing History: New Criteria, Reading, UK, 11 January 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Cambridge Project for the Book Trust New Colloquia, London, UK, 8 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Women Editing Periodicals (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Remembering Don McKenzie, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, 12-14 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 9); Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library, 1750-1850, Gronigen and Sheffield Hallam Universities, Sheffield, UK, 19-22 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 9); SHARP 2001 Ninth Annual Conference, Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia, 19-22 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 9-10); Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, 2002-2003, Cambridge University Library (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 10); History of the Book in Latvia, by Peter Mitham (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 10-11); BOOK REVIEWS, by Kathryn Sutherland, Ronald Huebert, Marija Dalbello, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Genelle Gertz-Robinson, Paul Morgan (pp. 11-15); Book Award: George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, by Ezra Greenspan (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16); SHARP Election (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16).

My dissertation investigates the role of intellectual weekly periodicals such as the Nation and Athenaeum and the New Statesman as mediators between the book trade and the audience for so-called serious books. The weeklies offer a productive lens through which to examine the labels commonly applied to early twentieth-century intellectual culture. The rise of a mass reading public and the proliferation of print in this period necessitated cultural labels with a sorting function: books, periodicals, and people were designated as "highbrow," "middlebrow," "modernist," "Georgian," "Bloomsbury." Through an analysis of the intellectual weeklies, a periodical genre explicitly devoted to the appraisal of intellectual culture, I argue for a critical revaluation of cultural labels as they were used in the early twentieth century and as they have been adopted in later scholarship. Using quantitative methodologies influenced by book history, Chapter One argues that the weeklies' literary content was characterized by the periodicals' reciprocal relationship with the book trade: publishers were the weeklies' most significant advertisers, and the weeklies, in turn, communicated information about new books to their book-interested readers. Through an analysis of two series of articles published in the Nation and Athenaeum in the mid-1920s, Chapter Two considers the weeklies' negotiation of their dual roles as forums for public debate about intellectual culture and advertising partners with the book trade. Chapter Three analyzes the book review itself, which found its evaluative function called into question as the number of books and periodicals multiplied rapidly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapter Four examines the vituperative discourse directed at the intellectual weeklies by the Cambridge quarterly Scrutiny. These attacks reveal not only Scrutiny's disappointment with the specific weeklies of its day but also the paramount cultural responsibility it ascribed to the intellectual weeklies as a genre. By considering the intellectual weeklies' relationships with the book trade, the book-buying public, reviewing, and other intellectual periodicals, my dissertation emphasizes the importance of the intellectual weeklies within the cultural field of interwar Britain and argues for a reconsideration of their role in the production and labeling of intellectual culture during this period.