The official group of the TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography forum.
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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 month ago
This essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Syllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
I look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Rachael King deposited “Interloping with my Question-Project”: John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Good Morning!
In the fall you’ll see my name on the ballot. I am a candidate to represent the TM Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I am thrilled to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. Thus, I am writing to ask you for your support as well as i…[Read more] -
Michael Hancher posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Imaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a “Bewick” and one for Dickens. https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/home/miscellany/imaging-wood-blocks
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Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year ago
CFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, TrackHow do we study the expansion, contraction, and development of material texts and corpora? Papers sought that explore erasure, cancellation, deletion, supplementation, and textual change. 350-word proposals cvs by 10 March 2018; Eleanor F. Shevlin (eshevlin@wcupa.edu)…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year ago
In this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Kate Ozment deposited Expanding Access: Feminist Scholarship and the Women in Book History Bibliography in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Inspired by my work on the Women in Book History Bibliography, this presentation takes a different angle on discussions of women’s texts in digital archives. The WBHB collects secondary sources on women’s writing and labor over a broad range of languages, subjects, geographic locations, and time periods. Because we collect secondary sources, we…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
This article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Rags Make Paper, Paper Makes Money: Material Texts and Metaphors of Capital in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Because nineteenth-century paper was made from rags, the materiality of paper money became a likely ground from which to debate the nature of value in modern capitalism. On one hand, if paper money was backed by nothing but itself, then it was worth little more than itself: a gathering of lowly rags. On the other hand, the process of turning…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Designed to Amuse: Hemingway’s The Torrents of Spring and Intertextual Comedy in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Easily the least-mentioned (and read) of Ernest Hemingway’s works (proven by its lack of critical attention), The Torrents of Spring merits rereading for its intertextual play. Hemingway’s use of embedded author’s notes throughout the text guides readers to a more fully aware young writer who offers critiques of composition, authorship, pri…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Excuse the Preface: Hemingway’s Introductions for Other Writers in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Over the course of his career Ernest Hemingway wrote introductions for a number of writers. These pieces have been largely forgotten, but study and analysis of Hemingway’s introductions offers additional insight into the well-known author. The process of creating and marketing these pieces allowed Hemingway to manipulate and refine his public p…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Refusing the Serious: Authorial Resistance in Ring Lardner’s Prefaces for Scribner’s in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Though already famous, wealthy, and squarely established as a popular chronicler of the early
twentieth century, humorist Ring Lardner’s foray into a serious literary career with Charles Scribner’s
Sons Publishing Company is best characterized as an act of authorial resistance. Rather than evolve into
the “serious” author the firm had hoped f…[Read more] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Print Culture in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Thoreau’s relation to print culture was complicated and at times contradictory, but from his writing life to his family business, he was shaped by it. Scholars note that he was both successful and a failure as a professional author. He published books and articles made possible by technological changes in papermaking and printing to his west on t…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Read. Write. LitMag: Whiteness in the Fall 2016 issue of Brevity in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This paper explores the extent to which whiteness is represented in the Fall 2016 issue of Brevity. I suggest that the authors’ representation of whiteness manifests in the forms of both white privilege and white supremacy, and thus serves as the predominant theme of this issue of the magazine. I also consider the ways in which distant reading t…[Read more]
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Kate Ozment deposited Book History, Women, and the Canon: Theorizing Feminist Bibliography in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This paper revises book history’s historiography to account for feminist inquiry.
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Kate Ozment deposited Publishers Marketing Restoration Drama: A Case Study of Paratextual Experimentation in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Although we have long discussed the rise of consumer culture and the increase of print in Restoration England (see Birth of a Consumer Society, 1982), comparatively little information exists on specific methods publishers used to advertise to audiences and what role they played in creating new markets. My project fills this gap by examining…[Read more]
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