School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures

The Centre for the History of the Book

The Edinburgh Book History Seminars

Programme 2007-2008

Seminars take place in the Wolfson Suite of Edinburgh University Main
Library from 1-2. Tea and coffee is served.

October 19
Bending Time: The Function of Periodicals in
Nineteenth-Century Polar Naval Expeditions

David Stam (Syracuse University)
and Dierdre Stam (Long Island University/NYU)


November 2
Bloggers, Bookcrossers, and Amazonians:
Books on the Internet

Ann Steiner (University of Lund)


November 16
The Book Goes Hollywood:
Film-inspired Book Marketing in the Weimar Period

Jasmin Adam (University of Mainz)


November 30
Ireland and the 19th Century Scottish Book Trade
Charles Benson (Trinity College, Dublin)


January 11
The European Book World of the 16th Century
Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews)


January 25
Appreciation and Authenticity in Anglo-American Publishing:
Harrap's 'Poetry and Life' Series, 1911-1930

Pat Buckridge (Griffith University)


February 8
'The March of Intellect towards the Reign of Mind':
James Jennings, Grocer, 1774-1833 and the
Monthly Magazine
Geoffrey Carnall (University of Edinburgh)


February 29
Office Affairs: The Secretary in Film and Fiction
Lawrence Rainey (University of York)


March 14
Publishing Abbotsford: Walter Scott's Literary Legacy and the
Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels (1842-7)

Ruth McAdams (University of Edinburgh)






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