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Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:04:35 -0400

SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:24:42 -0400

“The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities.”

Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:16:06 -0400

A book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:13:23 -0400

According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

Sujata Iyengar deposited 'It was the best butter': Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:31:07 -0500

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]

Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:22:45 -0500

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]

Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:24:52 -0400

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]

Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 02:26:01 -0400

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.

Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:39:23 -0500

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]

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

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:32:01 -0500

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]

Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:27:43 -0500

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]

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

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:31:16 -0500

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]

Charlie Gleek deposited Southernness on Display in Recent Little Magazines in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:26:03 -0400

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

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

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 03:50:54 -0400

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]

James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:53:06 -0400

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]

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

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:01:16 -0400

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.

James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:33:31 -0400

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]

Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:29:15 -0500

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]

Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021: Forum Panels in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 04:09:01 -0500

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]

Whitney Trettien deposited Cultures of the Book (ENGL 034, taught remotely Fall 2020) in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:23:38 -0500

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]

Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:35:25 -0400

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]

Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica's Clandestine Printers in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 29 Aug 2020 02:30:55 -0400

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]

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

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:54:18 -0400

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]

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

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:32:59 -0400

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]

Sarah Werner deposited Working towards a Feminist Printing History in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 03:48:44 -0400

What would a feminist history of printing look like if it’s not focused on recovering the history of women printing? Delivered as the 2018 APHA Lieberman Lecture and forthcoming from the APHA journal, Printing History.

Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021 Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography forum cfps in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:38:04 -0400

Are you using innovative strategies to teach book history, print cultures and lexicography? Does your research explore the nature of collections? Please consider submitting an abstract for one of our forum’s two panels for MLA 2021. We have just extended the deadline to March 16.

Guaranteed session: From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of…[Read more]

Amanda L. French deposited Alcott's "Rigmarole": The Composition and Publication History of Little Women in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:25:22 -0500

_Little Women_ is a work composed piecemeal and narrated in more than one generic mode. Alcott’s complete financial dependence on what she could earn from her writing, her ambivalence toward conventional narratives for women, and, most importantly, her alternating submission to and rebellion against the demands (real and imagined) of her readers…[Read more]

Madeline Gangnes replied to the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:54:51 -0500

If it’s of interest to anyone, I livetweeted this excellent panel: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215367439988350976

Madeline Gangnes started the topic MLA 2020 Panel #265 "Databases and Print Culture Studies" Livetweet Thread in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:52:49 -0500

I was asked by the moderator of this morning’s MLA session #265 “Databases and Print Culture Studies” panel, so here is the link: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215697238107750404. (Official panel info found here: https://www.sharpweb.org/main/mla-2020-sharp-session-databases-and-print-culture-studies/) I hope it will be of some use to the…[Read more]

Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:36:49 -0500

Please consider attending our forum’s session on “Bibliopedagogy” at MLA in Seattle on Thursday, 9 January in WSCC – 401. Our panel features three presentations:

“Student-Scribe: A Hands-On Approach to Codicology and Book History” — Sarah J. Sprouse and Sarah Banschbach Valles

“Rewriting the Canon: Cultivating Student Creativity in the…[Read more]

Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:34:10 -0500

The New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]

Michael Hancher deposited Table of contents, in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 03:51:39 -0500

Table of contents.

Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:25:23 -0400

Three faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]

Sujata Iyengar deposited Focus on "Henry V": Navigating Digital Text, Performance, and Historical Resources in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:37:39 -0400

“Focus on ‘Henry V'” is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on the innovative digital publishing platform Scalar. Chapters include guides to early printed editions, sources, and performance and cinematic histories of the play, as well as…[Read more]

Sujata Iyengar deposited Shakespeare and the post-millennial cancer novel in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:34:28 -0400

This essay considers the use that twenty-first-century fictionalized cancer narratives make of Shakespeare’s words, the Shakespeare industry, and editorial and textual apparatuses to trope the ambiguous status of the post-millennial cancer patient. In the so-called “women’s novel” The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, the genre thriller What Time De…[Read more]

Sujata Iyengar deposited Upcycling Shakespeare: Crafting Cultural Capital in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:33:34 -0400

In this paper I argue that the flowering of adaptation and appropriation surrounding Shakespeare indicate not a holy “bard” who is the apotheosis of Western culture but an ambiguous Shakespeare who provides a creative space for artisans and artists (among whom, I will suggest, we can include critics and scholars). Having identified a “Sh…[Read more]

Juliane Braun deposited “Strange beasts of the sea”: Captain Cook, the sea otter and the creation of a transoceanic American empire in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 03:55:59 -0400

On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook and his crew left England in search of the famed
Northwest Passage. Spanish, French, and Russian explorers before him had set out to
find this Arctic waterway, which was thought to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
and promised to open up a new, more direct trading route with Asia. After seven
months…[Read more]

Will Fenton started the topic First Biennial Innovation Award, Library Company of Philadelphia (CFP) in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Mon, 06 May 2019 13:30:46 -0400

First Biennial Innovation Award

The Library Company of Philadelphia

Call for Proposals

The Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its First Biennial Innovation Award. The recipient of the Innovation Award will receive a $2,000 prize, a spotlight interview in our “Talking in the Library” podcast, and reco…[Read more]

Charlie Gleek deposited Ph.D. Examination List in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:45:58 -0400

My Ph.D. examination bibliography in the fields of Contemporary Southern Literature and Contemporary Book History and Print Culture

Charlie Gleek deposited Centuries of Black Artists' Books in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:44:14 -0400

Black artists have created, modified, or otherwise treated the book as an object of aesthetic expression since at least the nineteenth century. African American artists’ production and circulation of friendship albums and scrapbooks, democratic multiples and artist publishing, accordion folds, enclosures, and fine printing editions, all work to…[Read more]

Laura Forsberg started the topic TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography Guaranteed Session CFP in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 17:01:47 -0500

Guaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Bibliopedagogy : Book history, print cultures, lexicography in the classroom. Seeking panelists with engaging, hands-on approaches to the study of manuscript, print, and digital cultures. 250-word abstract and one-page CV to Laura Forsberg at laura.forsberg@rockhurst.edu. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 18 March 2019

Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:29:27 -0500

In this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]

Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:33:44 -0500

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]

Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:37:07 -0400

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]

Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Lexicography

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:40:40 -0400

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]

Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:10:37 -0400

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]

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

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:14:50 -0400

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]

Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography: Good Morning! In the fall you’ll see my name on the b […]

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 14:50:22 -0500

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: Imaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations […]

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:48:35 -0500

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

Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography: CFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography Title: Cut, […]

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:47:42 -0500

CFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, Track

How 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]