Centre for the History of the Book

MATERIAL CULTURES:

THE BOOK, THE TEXT, AND THE ARCHIVE

Conference Programme

FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2000 PLENARY 1: Stephen Greenblatt
'The Ghosts of Culture'
5.15 pm. Playfair Library, Old College

SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2000 PLENARY II: Roger Chartier
'Literature, History and the Book'
9.30 am.  Playfair Library

SESSION 1: 10.00-11.30 am.

1. FROM DISCOURSE TO PRINT (Chair - Sylvia Huot, University of Cambridge)
Politics on the Page: Amelot de La Houssaye Annotates Tacitus (1673)
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University)
The Enchanter's Book: 'Le Bel Inconnu' as Gauvain Romance in Chantilly, Musee Conde, MS 472
Lori J. Walters (Florida State University)
Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent...le livre: Helisenne de Crenne and the Turmoils of Passing to Print
Abby Zanger (Harvard University)

2. TEXT AND IMAGE I (Chair - Valerie Holman, University of Westminster)
Sociologies of the Text: Artists' Biographies and the Anxieties of National Culture
Julie Codell (Arizona State University)
The appearance of power: print, layout and textual authority in James McNeill Whistler's 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies'
Nicholas Frankel (Virginia Commonwealth U)
Female Illustrators and the Scottish Book 1890-1920
Rosie Addison (Edinburgh College of Art)

3. LIBRARIES AND READING COMMUNITIES (Chair - Keith Manley, University of London)
Between Orality and Literacy: Reading Communities and the Archive
Robin Alston (University of London)
Book Love, Book Lust: Culture and Desire in the Private Library 1880-1940
Megan Benton (Pacific Lutheran U)
The Library as Sign in the Eighteenth Century
Eric Garberson (Georgetown University)

4. FORM AND FUNCTION: FROM PRAYER BOOKS TO CHAPBOOKS
The Sword of God's Word: Praying Indians and the Bible
Kristina Bross (Purdue University)
Chapmen and Chapbooks
John Morris (National Library of Scotland)
From Common Prayer to Common Poems: Printing the Bay Psalm Book
Ramie Targoff (Yale University)

5. PRINTING AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE (Chair - James Loxley, University of Edinburgh)
On 'Blue Books' and State Graphomania: Early 19th Century British Government and Print Culture
Oz Frankel (University of Michigan)
Manuscript Circulation of Judicial Documents in Seventeenth-Century England: The Overbury Case
Miguel Llorens (Independent Scholar)
Romance in the Factory: Translation Workshops and Intellectual Property in the English Renaissance
Joshua Phillips (University of Chicago)

6. SCRAPBOOKS, ALBUMS AND EPHEMERA (Chair - Peter Freshwater, University of Edinburgh)
From Word to Image: Peter Altenberg's Picture-Postcard Albums
Andrew Barker (University of Edinburgh)
Cinematic Books in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Editing Peter Altenberg's Picture-Postcard Albums
Leo Lensing (Wesleyan University)
Collecting oneself: Sir John Fleming Leicester's scrapbooks 1821-1826
Dongho Chun (University of Manchester)

SESSION II: 2.00-3.30  pm.

1. AMERICA
The Beginning of the End: The Rise of the Novel and American Millennialism
Cathy Gutierrez (Sweet Briar College)
Circulation and Materiality: Books, Debt and Nation in the Antebellum US
Meredith McGill (Rutgers University)
Reading Violence: Affect and Identity in Men's Recreational Reading
David Stewart (National Central U, Taiwan)

2. TEXTS IN TIME AND SPACE
Gardening Texts and Textual Gardens in Early Modern England
Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania)
Twelve Agricultural Months and Twelve Categories of Books: Piero de' Medici's Studiolo
Maryanne Horowitz (Occidental College/UCLA)
Prologue to a Posy of a Ring: The Material Spaces of Seventeenth-Century Verse Collections
Randy Ingram (Davidson College)

3. THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY I (Chair - I.R. Willison, University of London)
Zines and the materiality of alternative culture
Chris Atton (Napier University)
The book that needs a sequel: "The Long Shadows" by Alan Brownjohn
Tatiana Iatcu (Petru Maior University)
Material Matters: Cultural Capital and Everyday Life in Consumer Magazines for Black South Africans
Sonja Laden (Tel Aviv University)

4. REPRESENTING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Chair - Patrick Leary, Indiana University)
Reconciling Print Floor and Shop Window: A case study of textual production and 'house' identity
David Finkelstein (Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh)
An Imagined World: 'The Imperial Gazetteer'
Michael Hancher (University of Minnesota)
Historians and histories: contested narratives of the past in Victorian Britain
Leslie Howsam (University of Windsor)

5. CULTURES OF COLLECTING I (Chair - Murray Simpson, National Library of Scotland)
Cateloguing the Culture of Collecting: Horace Walpole and Houghton Hall
Suzanne Matheson (University of Windsor)
Oriental Manuscripts in 18thC Collections: a Feast for Moths?
Beatrice Teissier (University of Oxford)
Publishing and Power: The Habsburg Paradigm
Andrew Wheatcroft (University of Stirling) and Susanne Peters (ENSSIB - Lyons)

6. TEXT AND IMAGE II
The Virgin Mary and The Book
Jonquil Bevan (University of Edinburgh)
Material Witness: The Visual Legacy of John Derricke's 'Image of Ireland'
James Knapp (Eastern Michigan University)

SESSION III: 4.00-5.30 pm.

1. FROM ORALITY TO TEXTUALITY (Chair - Roger Chartier)
The Thick Style: McGann, Ginzburg and an Aesthetics of Early New England
Matthew Brown (Northern Illinois University)
Book's body & the life of language: Children's & Household Tales collected by the Brothers Grimm
Jens Sennewald (University of Hamburg)

2. MODERNISM AND MATERIALITY
Virginia Woolf's Signature: The Hogarth Books
Catherine Hollis (U.C. Berkeley)
Ulysses and the Sociology of the Text
Clare Hutton (University of Cambridge)
James Joyce, Writer of the Sixties: a study in the creation of a classic
Ian Gunn (Napier University)

3. CULTURES OF COLLECTING II (Chair - T. Howard Hill, University of South Carolina)
John Aubrey's Manuscripts: Texts; Museums; Archives
Kate Bennett (University of Cambridge)
Edward Arber and the Stationers' Registers
Robin Myers (Worshipful Company of Stationers)
Elias Ashmole and the 'Musaeum Tradescantianum': Identity, Textuality and Collecting in Seventeenth-Century England
Marjorie Swann (University of Kansas)

4. WALTER SCOTT IN PRINT
The Last Minstrel: Scott and the Technology of the Book
Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue University)
'Real Localities, Real Portraits...Actually in the contemplation of memory of the author when he composed' : The Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels 1842-47
Tony Inglis (University of Sussex)
Scott and the Anxieties of Authorship
Robert Patten (Rice University)

5. RHETORICS, READERS AND COMPOSITION TEXTS IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Guiding the Teacher's Practice: Representations of Students in the 19th Century Textbooks
Sue Carter Simmons (Bowling Green State U)
Reimagining Students: Reading Student Marks in 19th Century Textbooks
Jean Ferguson Carr (University of Pittsburgh)
Guiding the Reader's Reading: The 19th Century Textbook Preface as Apologia and Gloss
Lucille Schultz (University of Cincinnati)

6. EXPERIMENTAL TEXTS (Chair - Del Rey Loven, Judson College)
The Book Unbound: Collaboration between visual artist and poet. Museum installations of Image and text
Katharine Coles (University of Utah) and Maureen O'Hara Ure (University of Utah)
A bibliographical primer surveying approaches to the dissemination and presentation of small press publishing, experimental poetry and artist books/artist publishing in Scotland, from 1960-2000
Alec Finlay (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art)

CONFERENCE DINNER
George Heriot's School (7.00 pm)

SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2000

SESSION IV: 9.30-11.00 am.

1. RESISTANCE AND THE CANON (Chair - John Barnard, University of Leeds)
Citation, Commentary and Resistance Theory: Texts of James VI and I's speech of 21 March 1609/10, 1610-1689
Joseph Marshall (University of Edinburgh)
Bringing Shakespeare to Book
Andrew Murphy (University of St Andrews)
Shakespeare's Computer: The First Literature Databases
Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews)

2. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (Chair - William Zachs, University of Edinburgh)
The Progress of Puffery: Literature and Advertising in Britain, 1730-1850
Nicholas Mason (Brigham Young University)
Print and its Readers in Scottish Enlightenment Theory
Martin Moonie (University of Edinburgh)
Inscribing Authenticity: signatures as Signs of Textual Authority in eighteenth-Century British Publishing
Shef Rogers (University of Otago)

3. CULTURES OF COLLECTING III (Chair - Richard Ovenden, University of Edinburgh)
Building National Collections with Foreign Books: A Look at [Early] Foreign Book Acquisition at the Library of Congress
Carol Armbruster (Library of Congress)
Private Collections and Public Archives: Ownership and Usage of Early British Children's Books
Matthew Grenby (De Montford University)
Collecting the Nineteenth Century: the book, the specimen, the photograph as archive
Sue Waterman (Johns Hopkins University)

4. CONTROL AND CONTESTATION (Chair - Robin Myers, Stationers Company)
'The Uses of Knowledge: Censorship and the Circulation of Information in Early Modern England'
Mark Bland (University of Reading)
Changing the whole face and condition of things: controlling print and guns in early modern England
Ian Gadd (University of Cambridge)
Laughing Matter: The Reproduction of Wit in Early Modern Jestbooks
Ian Munro (University of Alberta)

5. MATERIALITY AND MEANING
Romanticism and rag-paper
N.J.Baker (Queen Mary Westfield)
'Henry Esmond' and the Textuality of Materiality
Daniel Hack (SUNY - Buffalo)
Displaced Prefaces: Interpreting Tristram Shandy's Original Marbled Page in Historical and Narrative Contexts.
Karen Schiff (Clemson University)

6. ELECTRONIC TEXT
Electronic Archives and Their Discontents
Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Kentucky) and Kari Kraus (University of Rochester)
The Heritage of Silent Reading in the Age of Multi/Hyper Media
Peter Gyorgy (Elte University of Budapest)

SESSION V: 11.30-1.00 pm.

1. AUTHORS AND TEXTS IN THE 17TH CENTURY (Chair - Alastair Fowler, University of Edinburgh}
The Cultural Constituencies of the 1688 'Paradise Lost'
John Barnard (University of Leeds)
English Authors and the birth of book-trade privileges
Meraud Grant Ferguson (University of Oxford)
Anonymous Ambition and the function of Initials in Early English Print Culture
Marcy North (Florida State U)

2. TEXT AND IMAGE III
The Woodcut Illustration in British Popular Literature 1640-1840
Alexandra Franklin (Bodleian Library)
War Records: Art Book Archives from the 1940s
Valerie Holman, University of Westminster
Everyday designs: books by Chatto and Windus 1919-39
Stephen Watson (University of Reading)

3. THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK (Chair - N. Jardine, University of Cambridge)
Compendious footnotes: Lockeanism and Newtonianism in Edmund Law's first published work
Marina Frasca Spada (University of Cambridge)
Astronomical books and courtly communication: Tycho Brahe's Epistolae astronomicae
A. Mosley (University of Cambridge)
Writing and Talking of exotic animals in seventeenth-century Rose
Sylvia De Renzi (University of Cambridge)

4. EARLY TEXTS AND COLLECTIONS
Greek Culture, Royal Rivalry and Hellenistic Libraries
T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia)
Leo Allatius' De Graecorum Hodie Quorundam Opinationibus: Folk practice and the cultures of print in
1640's Greece and Rome
Karen Hartnup (University of Edinburgh)
Collecting Cultures in the Early Middle Ages: The Carolingians, the Byzantines and the Ottonian Imagination
Christina Nielsen (University of Chicago)

5. MERCHANDISING AND PROFESSIONALISM (Chair - Tim Rix, University of London)
The Challenge of Walter Besant and his Society of Authors
Isla Jack (University of Edinburgh)
The Advent of Modern Book Merchandizing
Wallace Kirsop (Monash University)
Original Copies: Manuscripts in the Age of Literary Professionalism
Anne Trubek (Oberlin College)

6. THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY II (Chair - John Frow, University of Edinburgh)
The Book after Benjamin and Derrida
David Ayers (University of Kent)
Discourses on the (Im)material: theorising the sensual in the culture of the fetishised sign
Shaun Hides (Coventry University)
Walter Benjamin: Towards Materialist Anthropology of Reading
Lloyd Spencer (Trinity & All Saints, Leeds)

1. PUBLISHING THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT (Chair - Nicholas Phillipson, University of Edinburgh)
William Smellie and the Enlightenment as Popular Culture
Stephen Brown (Trent University)
A Coach from Paris: Charles Elliot's International Trade in Books
Warren McDougall (University of Edinburgh)
Publishing the Scottish Enlightenment
Richard Sher (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

2. ACROSS BOUNDARIES: COLONIAL NEGOTIATIONS
The Strange and Dangerous Voyage(s) of Captaine Thomas James
Colleen Franklin (University of Ottawa)
When Literature from the Colonies Is Not Colonial Literature: The Publication Context of Ebenezer Cook's 'The Sotweed Factor'
Edgar Thomson Shields (East Carolina University)
'Oh What a Wicked World and Full of Drink!'
Lydia Wevers (Victoria University, Wellington)

3. THEORISING THE ARCHIVE (Chair - David Ayers, University of Kent)
Archiving Theatricality, Theatricalising the Archive
Kerry Kidd (University of Sheffield)
Material Culture in the Archives: Ramifications of the Multidimensional Text
Karen Marrero (Yale University)
Ephemera in/and the Archive: Challenges and Opportunities
Sydney Shep (Victoria University, Wellington)

4. READING AND WRITING THE RENAISSANCE (Chair - Karina Williamson, University of Edinburgh)
Whitewash and the Scene of Writing
Juliet Fleming (University of Cambridge)
Taking the Pen: The Politics of Anthologizing Early Modern Women's Writing
Kate Chedgzoy (University of Warwick) and Suzanne Trill (University of Edinburgh)

5. CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS (Chair - Peter McDonald, University of Oxford)
Unintended Consequences: Heroism, Orality and Writing
Sean Burke (University of Durham)
Authenticating the Author: contemporary strategies of author representation
Juliet Gardiner (Middlesex University)
More Than a Logo? Cultural Status and the Publisher's Imprint in the 1990s
Claire Squires (University of Oxford)

MALT WHISKY TASTING: 6 - 7 .00 pm.
Hosted by Justerini & Brooks