null / This is the Spring 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: EDITORIAL TEAMS APPOINTED TO DIRECT SHARP YEARBOOK AND NEWSLETTER; THE HISTORY OF THE IRISH BOOK PROJECT: A FIRST PROGRESS REPORT; LONDON AND DREW UNIVERSITIES CREATE GRADUATE EDUCATION LINK; WILLIAM MORRIS CENTENARY OBSERVED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC; READING: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND HISTORY: A COURSE SYLLABUS; THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION: A COURSE SYLLABUS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; COURSES & SEMINARS; EXHIBITIONS; LECTURES; ON THE INTERNET; NOTES & QUERIES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: READING: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND HISTORY: A COURSE SYLLABUS, by Leon Jackson (pp. 3-5); THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION: A COURSE SYLLABUS, by Edward Tenner (pp. 6-7).

Masthead reads: Winter 1998-99 / This is the Winter 1998-99 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: "EASING INTO BIOGRAPHY"; 1999 SHARP BOOK HISTORY PRIZE COMPETITION; AUSTRIAN BOOK HISTORY ON THE GO; STUDYING GERMAN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; NEW JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS; 1998 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECTS ROUNDUP; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW: "EASING INTO BIOGRAPHY", by James L.W. West III (pp. 1-2); AUSTRIAN BOOK HISTORY ON THE GO, by Peter R. Frank and Murray G. Hall (p. 2); Lost Libraries; Drawing from Nature: Art and Illustration in the Natural History Science; Australian Media Traditions: Historical Perspectives; Children's Books History Society; Libraries and the Book Trade; "La Bibliofilia" (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 4); Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes; The Popular Print in England (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 4-5); Mellon Resident Research Fellowships; John Hill Burton Fellowship; Norman MacCaig Fellowship (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 5); Winter 1999 Book History Seminar Programme; Spring Term 1999 Sociology of Texts Seminar Series; Spring 1999 series of Edward Clark Seminars (SEMINARS) (p. 6); 1998 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECTS ROUNDUP, by Ian R. Willison, John Y. Cole (pp. 6-7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Sharon Hamilton, Barbara Hochman, David Hunter, Elizabeth Morrison, Philip Girard, Leon Jackson (pp. 7-11).

This is the Autumn 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: Fritz Levy, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon, Tina Ray Murray; Bibliographer: Robert N. Matuozzi. CONTENTS: SHARP HAGUE 2006; SHARP AWARDS 2006; SHARP MINNEAPOLIS 2007; A SHARP FIRST!; MACHIAVELLIAN CONGRATS; CONFERENCE REVIEWS; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BOOK REVIEWS; IN SHORT; BOOK REVIEWS UPDATE; EXHIBITION REVIEWS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; RED UPDATE; JEBS RELAUNCH; BIBLIOGRAPHY; OLD BOOKS, NEW USES; THE EXPANDING BOOKSHELF. This issue includes the following contributions: A First-Timer's Perspective (SHARP HAGUE 2006), by Judith Jennings (p. 1); From Our President, by Bob Patten (pp. 1-2); To the Membership of SHARP, by Leslie Howsam, Mary Lu MacDonald, David Stam, Elizabeth Webby, Alexis Weedon (p. 2); Award for Distinguished Achievement [ADA] (SHARP AWARDS 2006), by Leslie Howsam with a message from John North (p. 3); DeLong Prize 2006 (SHARP AWARDS 2006) (pp. 3-4); SHARP Student Prize (SHARP AWARDS 2006), by Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose (p. 4); Open the Book, Open the Mind, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 11-15 July 2007 (SHARP MINNEAPOLIS 2007) (p. 4); A SHARP FIRST!, by Alistair McCleery (p. 4); MACHIAVELLIAN CONGRATS, by Jonathan Rose (p. 4); Publishing Classics since 1800 (CONFERENCE REVIEWS), by Sandy Malcolm (pp. 5-6); "Book Roads" in East Asia (CONFERENCE REVIEWS), by Peter Kornicki (p. 7); Magazines and Modernity in Australasia, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 8-9 December 2006 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Ellis Tinios, W.A. Kelly, S.J. Connolly, Victoria Gardner, Robert N. Matuozzi, Kai-wing Chow, David Finkelstein, Joad Raymond, Gillian Wright (pp. 8-15); IN SHORT, by Gail Shivel (pp. 15-16); Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 4 September-27 November 2005 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Lisa Pon (pp. 16-17); Work of Many Hands: The Art of Islamic Bookmaking, Art Institute of Chicago, Parts I and II: 1 May-28 August 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Kay Shelton (p. 17); Sacred Leaves: The Book between Manuscript & Print, Tampa Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 22-23 February 2007 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 18); The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audiences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 19-21 June 2008 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 18).

null / This is the Autumn 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: SHARP ANNOUNCES NEW PRIZE FOR BEST PUBLICATION IN BOOK HISTORY; 1997 CONFERENCE AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: A FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS; NEW EDITORS, NEW ADDRESSES; A MANAGEABLE SCOPE?: THE HISTORY OF PRINT CULTURE IN NEW ZEALAND; CONFERENCE AIMS TO OPEN UP ACCESS TO PUBLISHERS' ARCHIVES; BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES I: BIBLIOGRAPHY COURSE AT BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY; BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES II: THE HISTORY OF LITERATE CULTURE; BOOK REVIEWS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES; COURSES & SEMINARS; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; ON THE INTERNET; NOTES & QUERIES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: A MANAGEABLE SCOPE?: THE HISTORY OF PRINT CULTURE IN NEW ZEALAND, by Shef Rogers (pp. 2-3); BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES I: BIBLIOGRAPHY COURSE AT BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY, by Tom Davis (pp. 3-4); BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES II: THE HISTORY OF LITERATE CULTURE, by Charles Bazerman (pp. 4-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by James Raven (p. 6).

Masthead reads: Winter 1993-94 / This is the Winter 1993-94 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. CONTENTS: CENTER FOR BOOK HISTORY PROPOSED IN NEW YORK; UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PLANS BOOK HISTORY M.A. PROGRAM; ENGLISH BOOK AND PUBLISHING STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN; GUTENBERG EXHIBITION MOUNTED AT MORGAN LIBRARY; COURSES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; PUBLIC LECTURES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.

null / This is the Spring 2002 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: SHARP CONFERENCE; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; RESEARCH NOTES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: 10th Annual Conference, London, 10-13 July 2002 (SHARP CONFERENCE) (p. 1); Longman-History Today Prize (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Current Book History Research in Finland, by Jyrki Hakapää (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 1-3); Improving Access to Historical Collections: The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), by Marian Lefferts (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (pp. 3-5); On Collecting and Indexing the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1941, by Honor Ward (RESEARCH NOTES) (p. 5); The Birth of Gay Magazines in Post-War Japan, by Shingae Akitomo (RESEARCH NOTES) (pp. 5-6); Renaissance Society of America: SHARP@RSA, Toronto, 28-30 March 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Expanding Horizons: Print Cultures across the South Pacific, Dunedin, NZ, 10 September 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 6-7); 29th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 11-12 October 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 7); The History of Libraries in the United States, Bibliographical Society of America, Princeton University, Philadelphia, 11-13 April 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); 20th Annual Seminar on the History of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, Exeter University, UK, 23-25 July 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); 400th Anniversary of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, 8-20 September 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); Reese Fellowships in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 8-9); Book History at Texas A&M: A Workshop on the History of Books and Printing, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, 19-24 May 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); Books in American Lives 1830-1890, American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture, Worcester, MA, 9-13 June 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); Towards Book History in India, Organised by the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta in Association with the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, 8-9 February 2002, by Abhijit Gupta (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 9-10); BOOK REVIEWS, by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Juliet John, Andrew Gordon, Kristine Haugen, Chuck Johanningsmeier, Sharon Hamilton, Sharon Alker, J. Arthur Bond (pp. 10-14).

null / This is the Autumn 1999 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: WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANY "SCHOOLS OF LIBRARY AND READING STUDIES?"; CROSSING THE LINE: PRINT CULTURE DOWN UNDER; OVERLAPPING BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE; READING CONFERENCE IN EDINBURGH; THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE BBT SEMINAR; THE AMERICAN PRINT MARKETPLACE: FROM PAMPHLETS TO PH.D. DISSERTATIONS OR, ONE WAY TO TEACH THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK TO GRADUATE STUDENTS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES; ESSAY AND MANUSCRIPT PRIZES; SEMINARS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; IN MEMORIAM: WILLIAM EVAN FREDEMAN; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW: WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANY "SCHOOLS OF LIBRARY AND READING STUDIES?", by Wayne A. Wiegand (pp. 1-2); OVERLAPPING BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE, by David Finkelstein (p. 3); READING CONFERENCE IN EDINBURGH, by Helen Williams (p. 4); THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE BBT SEMINAR, by Barry McKay (pp. 4-5); THE AMERICAN PRINT MARKETPLACE: FROM PAMPHLETS TO PH.D. DISSERTATIONS OR, ONE WAY TO TEACH THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK TO GRADUATE STUDENTS, by Paul Gutjahr (pp. 5-6); Expressionism and Modernity: Function and Meaning in German Expressionist Prints; Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections in the Public Sphere from the 16th to the 20th Century (CONFERENCES) (p. 7); Chicago under Wraps: Dust Jackets from 1920-1950; Jock Elliott's Christmas Books (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 7-8); BOOK REVIEWS, by John Feather, Graham Jefcoate, Jonathan Rose, Kathleen Kamerick (pp. 10-14).

This is the Autumn 1994 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: Patrick Leary. CONTENTS: 1995 EDINBURGH CONFERENCE UPDATE: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS; SHARP WEIGHS PLANS TO EXPAND PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM; SCHOLARS BEGIN WORK ON A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AUSTRALIA; NEW BOOK HISTORY ENTERPRISES MOVE FORWARD IN SEVERAL NATIONS; THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LITERATURE; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; NOTES & QUERIES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.

Thesis advisor: Mary Crane / Literary Constellations resituates collaboration within the networks of books and people in the publishing industry in early modern London. Though print technologies and publishing practices are most often understood as providing the conditions for the development of single authorship, this project proposes that print also produced new forms of collective literary endeavors. Looking into the book industry, especially the activities of publishers within the Stationers' Company, I present collaboration as creative activity dispersed among interconnected people and books in the literary arena. This approach expands the recent scholarly attention to collaborative literary activity while remaining grounded in the social and economic context in which books were produced. Not only were books written, translated, edited, marketed, printed, and sold collectively in various ways, but the publishing industry as it developed in London created new avenues for imagining books as existing within meaningful collectivities and as well. Each chapter of this project examines a publishing event and traces its connections in the arena of books to illuminate the dynamics of collaborative publishing. Readings of the literary works are crafted by finding, illuminating, and taking seriously the traces among, between, and in texts. The first chapter examines the 1551 English translation of Utopia as a representative example of a collaborative literary process that includes writing as one in a larger constellation of literary efforts that produce the book. I further explore how the publisher Abraham Veale developed a specialty in health-related texts in translation, of which Utopia becomes a part. Chapter 2 introduces the English translation of the Aeneid published by Abraham Veale, which included a supplementary "thirteenth book," and which was produced in a collaborative group of translators and annotators. This continuation of the epic raises questions about the potential for groups of agents in print to continue the work of poetry indefinitely. Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene directly responds to the English Aeneidos and its collaborative continuing of the work of Virgil, and in the process articulates an individualist model of literary writing and reading. The third chapter turns to the interdependence of play writing and publishing with other books in the marketplace. I argue that Pericles was published as part of an identifiable group of books, and so operates in an interdependent cluster of collaboratively built stories. Finally, Chapter 4 argues that news was a collaboratively produced print genre with close associations with printed plays. The project of selling individual dramatic authorship in the First Folio and Ben Jonson's late plays required the disentanglement of play texts from their associations with news. Part of this move toward disentanglement includes Jonson's satiric depiction of the stationer Nathaniel Butter and his news syndicate in The Staple of News. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English.

null / This is the Spring 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. Editor: Jonathan Rose. CONTENTS: SHARP'S ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION CENTER GOES ONLINE; HISTORY OF THE BOOK: ON DEMAND SERIES (HOBODS); OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; FIRST SHARP CONFERENCE: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: HOW WE ARE DOING, by Jonathan Rose (p. 6).