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 1999 - 2000

All seminars take place in
Edinburgh University Library
Friday (1-2pm)
Tea and coffee served from 2.45

22 October 1999
'The Cost of Cheap Literature'
T. Howard Hill (University of South Carolina)


5 November 1999
'Private Lives and Public Privilege: Excavating the Oldest Press in the World'
David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge)


19 November 1999
'Book-Owning and hte Art of Reading and Writing among the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Gentry'
Stana Nenadic (University of Edinburgh)


3 December 1999 'Popularising History: Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Library'
Iain Beavan (University of Aberdeen)


14 January 2000
'J.M. Coetzee and the Burden of Censorship'
(Peter McDonald (St Hugh's College, Oxford)


28 January 2000
'The Emergence of a Christian Material and Visual Culture'
Larry Hurtado (University of Edinburgh)


11 February 2000
Printing the Scottish Romantics: Ballantyne, Hogg, and Scott
Douglas Mack (University of Stirling)


25 February 2000
French Text Books ofr Scottish Readers
Richard Wakeley (University of Edinburgh)


10 March 2000
Who Read the Romantics?
William St. Clair (Trinity College, Cambridge)


With generous support from The Faculty of Arts