A forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration on all aspects of book history.
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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
Book History 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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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2022 Conference “Cultural Mappings” in the discussion
Book History on MLA Commons 1 year ago
The Society for Textual Scholarship will convene its 2022 conference in person at Loyola University Chicago, May 26-28. With the theme of “Cultural Mappings,” we seek to explore the multivalent ways that mapping as a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in the field of textual scholarship makes visible the meanings of cultural heritage and…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
Book History 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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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2021 conference in the discussion
Book History on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Please consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats. The Society is keen to welcome new participants and encourage…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
Book History on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
This section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures in the group
Book History on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
DTC 356 explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political roles of information and data. Beginning with library classification systems and Wikipedia, the course then turns to the role of metadata in organizing collections and our lives before ending with a consideration of text-mining and topic modeling. The conclusion considers these techniques in…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Diagramming the First Folio’s Preliminaries in the group
Book History on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
The preliminary materials in Shakespeare’s First Folio survive in a variety of sequences, and until Peter Blayney proposed bibliographical reasons for a correct order in the 1990s, scholars weren’t sure what order was intended by the publishers. These slides diagram Blayney’s order, the reasoning behind it, and some of the variant orders that can…[Read more]
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Greg Barnhisel started the topic SHARP Cash Bar at MLA Chicago in the forum
Book History on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing is holding a cash bar on Thursday, Jan. 9, from 8:45-10:00pm in the Chicago IX room at the Sheraton. We hope that all book historians, bibliographers, editors, and textual scholars attending MLA will join us. In addition, SHARP has compiled a list of MLA sessions of interest to…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner wrote a new blog post book history sessions at MLA in the group
Book History: on MLA Commons 10 years ago
Hi fellow book historians!
I compiled a list of sessions related to book history/bibliography/textual studies at my blog. Let me know in the comments there or here if I missed anything–and looking forward to […]
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Shane Peterson created the group
Book History on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago