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The Third Annual Conference of
The Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading and Publishing
Old College
The UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH
14-17 July, 1995
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
DAY 1: Friday, July 15
PLENARY I: 9.00-11.00a.m. National Museum
Welcome and Orientation
Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh (Conference Host)
Jonathan Rose, Drew University (SHARP President)
Keynote address: ELIZABETH EISENSTEIN
SESSION I: 11.30-1.00
1. Science and Publishing
Chair: Antonia Bunch, Scottish Science Library
'Biography and the History of Science: a Bibliographer's View'
(Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor)
'Dr. George Gordon and the Dissemination of Scientific Information in Nineteenth-Century Scotland'
(Michael Collie, University of Toronto)
'From Lecture to Periodical and Book: Poetry and Science in Antebellum America'
(Robert Scholnick, William and Mary)
2. Improving Literature and the Construction of Identities
Chair: Jonathan Rose, Drew University
'Chambers's Encyclopaedia: Knowledge for the People'
(Sondra Cooney, Kent State University)
'Scripting Identity: the Cultural Work of Reading in the Highlands'
(Janet Sorensen, Indiana University)
'Contesting Identities: Literary Education and the Worker in Nineteenth Century British Mechanics Institutes'
(Siobhan Kelly, Wayne State College)
3. New Technologies
Chair: Tim Rix, British Library Board
'Bigger than Gutenberg? Changing Perspectives on Text, Image, and Technology'
(Patrick Allen, University of Stirling)
'The Electronic Book, On-line Journalism, and Changing Publishing Practices'
(Alexis Weedon, Luton University)
'Law, Ownership, Technology, and International Trade: Publishing in an Industrialised Information Society'
(Rowland Lorimer, Simon Fraser University)
4. Censorship and Control
Chair: Geoffrey Smith, Ohio State University
'James Joyce and Seven Types of Censorship'
(Alistair McCleery, Napier University)
'When the Devil Came to Washington: Congress, Cheap Literature, and the Struggle to Control Reading'
(Trudi Abel, Williams College)
5. Women Publishing/Publishing Women
Chair: Marilyn Button, Lincoln University, PA
'The Case of the Necessitous Gentlewoman: Publishing, Poverty and Women's Work in the Nineteenth-Century'
(Kathleen Walkup, Mills College)
'Women Publishers and Women Publishing in Eighteenth-Century England'
(Tamara Hunt, Loyola Marymount University)
'Publishing Herself: Margaret Cavendish's Pursuit of Fame'
(Leigh Anna Eicke, University of Maryland, College Park)
SESSION 2: 2.30-4.00
6. Scotland and the New World I
Chair: Warren McDougall, History of the Book in Scotland
'Beyond the Periphery: Books by Express Canoe in the Northwest, 1750-1820'
(Fiona Black, Loughborough University)
'Scottish Print Culture in the Diaspora: The Case of Nova Scotia in the Early Nineteenth-Century'
(Bertrum MacDonald, Dalhousie University)
'The Nineteenth-Century Australian Book Trade and the Scottish Connexion'
(Wallace Kirsop, Monash University)
7. Provincial Readers, Booksellers, and Publishers
Chair: Peter Isaac, Bibliographical Society
'The Uses of Print: Newspaper and Periodical Readership in Henderson, North Carolina, 1857'
(Amy Thomas, Montana State University)
'The Rise and Fall of Isaiah Thomas's Rural Bookselling Network'
(James Green, Library Company of Philadelphia)
'Conditions for Success as a Provincial Publisher in Nineteenth Century Britain'
(John Turner, University of Wales-Aberystwyth)
8. Reading and Reading Practice
'Conceptualising Readers' Responses: Readers, Biographies, and the Discourse of Genre in Nineteenth-century America'
(Scott Casper, University of Nevada-Reno)
'On Nietzsche in Prison: Readings and Misreadings'
(Larry Sullivan, Library of Congress)
'The Reception of D.H. Lawrence in China'
(Ruan Wei, Shenzhen University)
9. Author-Publisher Relations: Blackwoods
Chair: David Finkelstein, Napier University
'Mr Wordy and the Blackwoods: Author and Publisher in Victorian Scotland'
(Michael Michie, York University, Toronto)
'The Poet, the Public and the Publishers: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace'
(Paula Feldman, University of South Carolina)
'George Eliot's First Fiction: Targetting Blackwood's'
(Kathleen McCormack, Florida International University)
10. Bookselling and Distribution: the Netherlands
Chair: William Kelly, National Library of Scotland
'The Books of 'Het Suyckerhuis': A Haarlem Bookshop in the Seventeenth Century'
(Garrelt Verhoeven, University of Leiden)
'The Dutch Book-buying Public and the Colporteur in the Late-nineteenth Century'
(Lisa Kuitert, University of Amsterdam)
'A First-rate Market from Every Point of View: the Rise of the English Book in the Netherlands Before WWII'
(Adriaan van der Weel, University of Leiden)
SESSION 3: 4.30-6.00
11. Literary Celebrity and Self-promotion
Chair: John Y. Cole, Center for the Book, Library of Congress
'From Abbotsford to Sunnyside: Literary Celebrity and the Home in Mid-nineteenth Century America'
(Susan Barrera Fay, Marymount University)
'To the Universal Yankee Nation: P.T. Barnum Written by Himself'
(Jean Ashton, Columbia University)
'Bringing the Text to Book: John Lane and the Making of Arnold Bennett'
(Peter McDonald, New College, Oxford)
12. Reviewing and Editorial Practice
Chair: Tom Leonard, University of California-Berkeley
'A Question of Autonomy: Reviewer, Publisher, and Author Intersect in the Blackwood's Review of Adam Bede'
(Carol Martin, Boise State University)
'When Editors Edited or, What Did Maxwell Perkins Do?'
(Matthew Bruccoli, University of South Carolina)
'Edging Women Out: Fiction Reviews in the Athenaeum, 1860-1900'
(Ellen Miller Casey, University of Scranton)
13. Early Printing
Chair: Robin Myers, Stationers' Company
'The Printer as Author: Christopher Plantin's Dialogues françois pour les jeunes enfans and the Art of Printing in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century'
(Marigrace Bellert, Franklin & Marshall College)
'The Printing of Ben Jonson's 1616 Folio Workes'
(David Gants, University of Virginia)
'In Search of a Patron: Anguillara's 1564 Virgil and the Literary Culture of Renaissance Italy'
(Craig Kallendorf, Texas A & M University)
14. Titles, Prefaces, and Reading Practices in the 18th Century
Chair: Don Nichol, Memorial University
'What Titles Lay Claim To: Marketing Aims and Cultural Frames in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction'
(Eleanor Shevlin, University of Maryland-College Park)
'Authoring Audiences: Rhetorical Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Prefaces'
(Jeanine Hurley, Univerity of Maryland-College Park)
'Samuel Richardson's Ideology of Reading'
(Robert Folkenflick, University of California-Irvine)
15. The Publisher's Archive: Macmillans
Chair: Anne Cowan, Simon Fraser University
'New Material in the Macmillans Archive'
(Elizabeth James, British Library)
'The Research Potential of the Macmillans Archive'
(Warwick Gould, University of London)
'The Macmillan's Archive Today'
(John Handford, Macmillans)
DAY 2: Saturday, July 16
SESSION 4: 9.00-11.00
16. Medical Publishing
Chair: Jim Connor, Hannah Institute, Toronto
'The Ghost and Mrs Culpepper: How Stationers of London Kept the Market Alive for the Works of Nicholas Culpepper'
(Mary McCarl, Gloucester, Massachussetts)
'Awakening a Spirit of Enquiry: The Publishing Activities of Reformist Medical Practitioners in British North America'
(Jennifer Connor, McMaster University)
'Promoting Good Health in the Age of Reform: Henry H. Porter of Philadelphia, 1829-1832'
(Thomas Horrocks, College of Physicians, Philadelphia)
17. Music and Print Culture
Chair: Jan Fairley, Institute of Latin American Studies, Glasgow
'Reading Lindmania: Print Culture and the Construction of Popular Culture Audiences'
(Sherry Lee Linkon, Youngstown State University)
'Print Culture Meets the Blues: The Transformation of an Improvisatory Tradition'
(Catherine Smith, University of Nevada-Reno)
'Voices That Are Lost: Public Culture and Sheet Music Publication in the Nineteenth Century'
(Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Texas A & M University)
18. Scotland and the New World II
Chair: Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh
'The Publication and Distribution of The Edinburgh Review in the Early American Republic'
(Christine Modey, University of Delaware)
'A Scottish Printer in Later Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia: Robert Simpson's Journey from Apprentice to Entrepreneur'
(Rosalind Remer, Moravian College)
'Abridged Editions of Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in America: What Ninteenth-Century College Students Really Learned about Blair on Rhetoric'
(Jerry Tarver, University of Richmond)
19. Library History
Chair: Robin Alston, University of London
'Adalbert Blumenschein's Beschreibung verscheidener Bibliotheken in Europa: A Source of Library History of the Eighteenth-Century'
(Thomas Walker, University of Wisconsin)
'School Libraries in the United States, 1830-1860: Experiences of Teachers and Students'
(Priscilla Older, Mansfield University)
'Main Street Public Library: Books and Reading in Rural America, 1890-1956'
(Wayne Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
20. Literary Value and the Definition of a Classic
Chair: Matthew Bruccoli, University of South Carolina-Columbia
'The Politics of the Classic'
(Juliet Gardiner, Middlesex University)
'The Critical Edition in America'
(Matthew Weiland, New Press, N.Y.)
'Re: Producing Rilke'
(Edward Bishop, University of Alberta)
SESSION 5: 11.30-1.00
21. Publishing History: Four Case Studies
Chair: Laurel Brake, Birkbeck College
'"Dragged at Anne's Chariot Wheels": L.M. Montgomery and the Sequels to Anne of Green Gables'
(Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University)
'Our Chief Speculative Monument of This Age: The Publication of Mill's Logic'
(Patrick Leary, Indiana University)
'English Poets, Oxford Critics, and the Common Sort of Reader'
(Esther Quantrill, University of Texas-Austin)
'A really useful undertaking: the Publishing History of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1901'
(Gillian Fenwick, University of Toronto)
22. Teaching Book History
Chair: Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina-Columbia
A roundtable discussion with participation from Robin Alston (University of London), Jonathan Rose (Drew University), Ezra Greenspan (University of South Carolina-Columbia) and (James West (Penn State University)
23. Reading the Image: Art Books and Illustration
Chair: David Pearson, National Art Library, V&A
'Gazing at The Imperial Dictionary'
(Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota)
'Art Books in Occupied France'
(Valerie Holman, University of London)
'E.A. Seemann: An Odyssey'
(James Todd, University of Montana)
24. Textbooks and Scholarly Publishing
'The University of Chicago Press and the First Generation of Chicago Sociology, 1892-1918'
(Marvin Leavy, Western Kentucky University)
'Primers, Publishing, and Politics: the Classical Textbooks of Benjamin Hall Kennedy'
(Christopher Stray, University of WalesÐSwansea)
'The Physical Presentation of Parallel Grammars in Five Textbooks for Speakers of Dutch'
(Pieter Loonen, University of Groningen)
25. The Radical Press in the Seventeenth-Century
Chair: John Barnard, University of Leeds
'The Sermon and the Market for Printed Books During the English Revolution'
(James Rigney, Roehampton Institute)
'A Risky Business: Marvell, Elizabeth Calvert and Opposition Pamphlets in the 1660s'
(Maureen Bell, University of Birmingham)
'Pikes and Protestations: Scottish Propaganda in England, 1639-40'
(Joseph Black, University of Toronto)
SESSION 6: 2.30-4.00
26. Reading by Subscription
Chair: Simon Eliot, Open University
'Subscription Publishing and Subscription Lists 1680-1870'
(Frank Robinson, NSTC)
'Something to Read: Boot's Book LoverÕs Library'
(Nickianne Moody, Liverpool John Moores University)
'The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Scottish Community Library in a Philosophical and Ideologcal Context'
(John Crawford, Glasgow Caledonian University)
27. The Company and the Archive
Chair: Jean Ashton, Columbia University
'Prince of Booksellers: Archibald Constable as Publisher'
(Jane Millgate, University of Toronto)
'A.P. Watt and Company Records: a Major Resource for Australian and Canadian Publishing History'
(Elaine Zinkhan, Toronto)
'The Economics of Fine Printing: William Morris as Embarrassed Capitalist at the Kelmscott Press'
(William Peterson, University of Maryland-College Park)
29. The Politics of Early Print
Chair: John Barnard, University of Leeds
'John Stewart of Baldynneis: King's Pawn'
(Donna Rodger, University of Edinburgh)
'More Newes from Scotland'
(Edward Thompson, University of Dundee)
'Not Ink, But Blood: Cruelty, Language, and Printing in Seventeenth-Century New England'
(Jill Lepore, Yale University)
SATURDAY EVENING: CONFERENCE DINNER
Speaker: Ian Donaldson, King's College, Cambridge
'The Destruction of the Book'
DAY 3: Sunday, July 17
PLENARY II: 9.00-11.00 a.m.
NATIONAL HISTORIES OF THE BOOK
A discussion of national projects in progress, with contributions from: Jonquil Bevan (A History of the Book in Scotland), Peter Hoare (A History of Libraries in Britain), Wallace Kirsop (A History of the Book in Australia), a representative from A History of the Book in Britain, a representative from A History of the Book in the United States.
SESSION 7: 11.30-1.00
30. Authorial Relations
Chair: Jacqueline Sichler, IMEC
'Imagining the Author: Scott in the Letters of his Readers'
(Robert Mayer, Oklahoma State University)
'Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods, 1820-1847'
(Virginia Blain, Macquarie University)
'DeQuincey and his Publishers'
(Barry Symonds, Manchester University)
31. Women Readers
Chair: Vivian Bone, Edinburgh University Press
'Situating the Woman Reader'
(Kate Flint, University of Oxford)
'Women and the Reading of History in Early Modern England'
(D.R. Woolf, Dalhousie University)
'Women, Literacy, and the Library: The Struggle for Inclusion'
(Ruth Copans, Skidmore College)
32. Publishing, Propaganda, and the Shaping of Texts
Chair: Chris Stray, University of Wales-Swansea
'Publishers and Propagandists: the Story of Secret Collaboration in the First World War'
(Peter Bultenhuis, Simon Fraser University)
'Retelling a Tale: the Indian Captivity Narrative as Shaped by Editors and Publishers'
(J.D. Schantz, Case Western Reserve University)
'A Publishing House and Its Readers, 1841-80: the Murrays and the Miltons'
(Angus Fraser, Richmond, Surrey)
33. Contesting Cultures
Chair: Ian Willison
'Proselytising the Faithful: The Publishing of Devotionals in Eighteenth-Century Mexico'
(Martha Whittaker, University of California-Berkeley)
'Creating Culture: the English Novel in Colonial India'
(Priya Joshi, Columbia University)
'From Manuscript to Print: the Abbe Paulmier's Traite de l'etablissement d'une Mission Chrestienne
(Margaret Sankey, University of Sydney)
34. Literary Property
Chair: Simon Eliot, Open University
'Writing in the United Kingdom and United States Copyright: a Historical Analysis'
(Julian Warner, QueenÕs University, Belfast)
'The Author/Mother in the Marketplace and in Court: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Copyright in Uncle Tom's Cabin'
(Melissa Homestead, University of Pennsylvania)
'American Writers and the Fog of Copyright'
(Richard Fine, Virginia Commonwealth University)
LUNCH AND BUSINESS MEETING 1.00-2.30
Playfair Library
SHARP BOARD MEETING 3.00 Lee Room
[Conference Ends]
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