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B O O K H I S T O R Y Old Books and New Histories An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture Leslie Howsam STUDIES IN BOOK AND PRINT CULTURE Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines – history, literary studies, and bibliography – that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich but sometimes confusing territory, explaining how different scholarly approaches to what may appear to be the same entity can lead to divergent questions and contradictory answers. Rather than introduce the events and turning points in the history of book culture, or debates among its theorists, Leslie Howsam uses an array of books and articles to offer an orientation to the field in terms of disciplinary boundaries and interdisciplinary tensions. Howsam’s analysis maps studies of book and print culture onto the disciplinary structure of the North American and European academic world. Old Books and New Histories is also an engaged statement of the historical perspective of the book. In the final analysis, the lesson of studies in book and print culture is that texts change, books are mutable, and readers ultimately make of books what they need. Leslie Howsam is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Windsor. The Illustrated Old English Hexateuch, Cotton Ms. Claudius B.iv The Frontier of Seeing and Reading in Anglo-Saxon England Benjamin C. Withers STUDIES IN BOOK AND PRINT CULTURE The Old English Hexateuch is a manuscript of the earliest vernacular translation of the Old Testament books of Genesis through Joshua. The texts belong, in part, to the Anglo-Saxon monk Aelfric (950– 1010) and to several anonymous translators and at least one artist who compiled these translations and illustrated them with nearly four hundred narrative images, which are carefully integrated into the manuscript. The Hexateuch testifies to the creativity and innovation of Anglo-Saxon bookmakers and stands as an important, if little known, witness to the relationship between early book-making technology and the history of literacy. Benjamin C. Withers examines codicological features of the manuscript, focusing on the working processes of the artist and scribes and seeking to understand how they integrated newly translated text with newly developed imagery so deftly. Grounded in art history and literary theory, this work considers the narrative relationships created by the careful design and seeks to place the Hexateuch within the broader social and cultural development of vernacular literacy in the eleventh century. Benjamin C. Withers is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Art at the University of Kentucky. Approx. 128 pp / 5 ½ x 8 ½ / September 2006 4 figures Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9196-2 / 978-0-8020-9196-3 £25.00 $40.00 E Paper ISBN 0-8020-9438-4 / 978-0-8020-9438-4 £9.95 $16.95 C Approx. 464 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006 115 black and white illustrations, CD of digital reproductions Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9104-0 / 978-8020-9104-8 $85.00 E WORLD RIGHTS EXCLUDING UK AND EUROPE CO-PUBLISHED WITH THE BRITISH LIBRARY. 30
B O O K H I S T O R Y RECENT TITLES IN THE STUDIES IN BOOK AND PRINT CULTURE SERIES Fleet Street – Five Hundred Years of the Press Dennis Griffiths THE BRITISH LIBRARY Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library Jonathan E. Carlyon 0-8020-3845-X / 978-0-8020-3845-6 £42.00 / $55.00 / 2005 When Canadian Literature Moved to New York Nick Mount 0-8020-3828-X / 978-0-8020-3828-9 £28.00 / $45.00 / 2005 The Future of the Page Edited by Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor 0-8020-8584-9 / 978-0-8020-8584-9 £20.00 / $29.95 / 2005 ‘Paper-contestations’ and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 Elizabeth Sauer 0-8020-3884-0 / 978-0-8020-3884-5 £28.00 / $50.00 / 2005 Reading Women Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present Edited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley 0-8020-8928-3 / 978-0-8020-8928-1 £40.00 / $60.00 / 2005 The World in Venice Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity Bronwen Wilson 0-8020-8725-6 / 978-0-8020-8725-6 £45.00 / $70.00 / 2005 This authoritative history of the press in London from its earliest days through to the re-launch of The Guardian in 2005 tells a fascinating story. Although there were ‘newsbooks’ during the turbulent Civil War period, and rigorously state-controlled newspapers (such as the London Gazette) launched afterwards, the newspaper industry as we know it today really began to flourish in the 1690s, when it was released from censorship. New papers have been launched every year since then, yet only a few have adapted and survived. Those who have succeeded have learned to live by the words ‘Give the readers what they want’ – a mantra that Dennis Griffiths adopts in presenting this history. Expertly weaving together themes ranging from political opinion, technological advances, advertising campaigns, unions, and price wars, to the influence of editors, the power of the Press Barons, gossip columnists, and the invention of the crossword, Griffiths presents a fascinating glimpse into the history of one of Britain’s most powerful and enduring industries. Dennis Griffiths was former production director of Express Newspapers, editor of Professional Printer, and is currently the lead curator of The Front Page exhibition at the British Library. 448 pp / 6 2 /3 x 9 2 /3 / Available 40 black and white illustrations Cloth ISBN 0-7123-0697-8 / 978-0-7123-0697-3 $50.00 E DISTRIBUTIONS RIGHTS FOR NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA ONLY. OTHER RIGHTS HELD BY THE BRITISH LIBRARY. 31
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