The official group of the TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography forum.
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Series of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
What follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year ago
In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year ago
The reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with Computational Bibliography? New Angles on Printing Thomas Hobbes’ “Ornaments” Edition in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This article attributes one of the three “first” editions of Leviathan to the London printer John Richardson (fl. 1673–1703), revising Noel Malcolm’s attribution to a different printer in the recent Clarendon Edition of Leviathan. We lay out the mystery of Leviathan’s so-called “Ornaments” edition and use evidence from damaged type pieces to say…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Southernness on Display in Recent Little Magazines in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
A consideration of how paratextual information present on two, recently-published little magazines — The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review — might work to mediate their readers’ literary expectations and interpretations. Published simultaneously at: https://southernfringes.substack.com
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, and Some Futures for the Humanities (with maybe a little Shakespeare thrown in) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
I briefly survey the function of books, written artifacts, literary criticism and connoisseurship/curation in apocalyptic literature from Mary Shelley to Malka Older (with a nod to the Book of Revelation) and in contemporary Young Adult fiction and “cli-fi” — science fiction and fantasy centered around climate change, such as Kim Stanley…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Abstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years ago
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021: Forum Panels in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Please consider attending one or both of the panels sponsored by our forum at MLA 2021 in the next few days:
“Revisiting William Morris and the Arts and Crafts: Reception and Influence,” our co-sponsored panel, is scheduled for Thursday, January 7th from 5:15pm – 6:30pm (EDT).
“From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of Collections” is…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited Cultures of the Book (ENGL 034, taught remotely Fall 2020) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
The book: it’s a soothingly familiar technology, one we all know how to operate. Open the front covers to reveal the text; turn the page to continue reading. Yet even the most seemingly ordinary aspects of the book, like titles and page numbers, had to be invented. In this course, we will work to defamiliarize the book, investigating how the f…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Prior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica’s Clandestine Printers in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Milton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
This book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu…[Read more]
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