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Ezra Greenspan, Editor
Jonathan
Rose, Editor
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1098-7371: Annual Publication
Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). For information on membership in SHARP, contact:
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History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly
defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception
of script and print. It will publish research on the social, economic,
and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book
arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera,
copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism,
canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and
reader response.
About the Editors:
Ezra Greenspan is Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Among his many publications is George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (Penn State Press, 2000).
Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. His publications include The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation; The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes; and (with Simon Eliot) A Companion to the History of the Book.
Book Review Editor: Book History does not accept books for review.