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{"title":"\"Singular Plurality\": Settler Colonial Transcendence and Canada's 2021 Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the Frankfurt Book Fair","authors":"Jody Mason, Sarah Pelletier","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910956","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Building on recent scholarship on the role of the Frankfurt Book Fair in contemporary book culture, this paper looks at FBM2021, Canada's guest-of-honour campaign for the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair. FBM2021's brand, \"Singular Plurality,\" depended on Indigenous authors and their writing to signify the post-reconciliation eclecticism that is at the heart of Canadian Heritage's current cultural export strategy. The sign of reconciliation—part of a settler strategy that Lowman and Barker identify as transcendence ––is particularly treacherous in this context because it folds Indigenous writers and their work into a creative-economy logic that depends on cultural diversity as a unifying sign, while actively suppressing questions regarding Indigenous sovereignty. We argue that the campaign's silencing of questions of production is the motor of transcendence . Drawing on a survey we conducted with Indigenous-owned publishers in Canada, we attend to the unique needs of Indigenous-owned publishers to make visible the fact that reconciliation is not simply a matter of culture; it is at the same time always a matter of political and economic sovereignty.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ancient Letters and Old Paper: How Matthew Parker (1504–1575) Understood Medieval Books","authors":"Madeline McMahon","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910948","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article examines the efforts of Matthew Parker and his scholarly circle to understand the medieval books that he collected as archbishop of Canterbury. It argues that Parker made sense of his books by connecting them to what amounted to an emerging history of the book. That is, Parker began to piece together the formal features of different medieval books into a rough but increasingly refined timeline of the history of book production in order to contextualize any given manuscript. The evidence can be found scattered throughout Parker's library, in the form of annotations, transcripts of passages, copied illustrations, and printed books that offer a wealth of information about how Parker's team understood the books they handled. This documentation reveals how they combined scribal knowledge with textual information, to powerful ends. By connecting Parker's practices to contemporary developments in other areas of knowledge production, from alchemy to conjectural emendation, this article offers a new way forward for scholarly analysis of the early modern study of older books, especially for our analysis of early modern practices and paradigms that do not fit modern definitions of paleography and codicology.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"John and James Rivington, Booksellers: The Retail Trade in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London","authors":"Leah Orr","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910950","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article analyzes evidence from a manuscript ledger belonging to the London bookselling firm of John and James Rivington during the early 1750s. The ledger shows that the Rivingtons, at the center of the London book trade, frequently swapped or acquired books from other booksellers for retail sale in their shop. The price valuations in the ledger also reveal that the books traded between booksellers were valued at a much steeper discount off the retail prices than previous studies have found. This article concludes by suggesting that the wide range of booksellers in their inner circle and the steep discount of prices for those on the inside explains how the Rivingtons and others at the center of the London trade were able to maintain their monopoly and also why they underestimated the threat from booksellers outside their network. The swapping of books gives insight into the retail experience and shows booksellers stocking common books even before there was an established canon of English literature.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Little Golden Books in the Shadow of the CIA, or the Americanization of Children's Publishing in Cold War France","authors":"Cécile Boulaire","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910953","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In 1949, a new French publishing house, named Cocorico, launched a brand new collection called \"Un petit livre d'or\". In fact, it was simply a translation of the American \"Little Golden Books\" series. These cheap, cheerful and colourful picturebooks for the children of postwar Europe enjoyed immediate success. But the importation into Europe of the concept of \"little golden books\" had roots far beyond the simple framework of children's publishing and became part of the cultural Cold War,\" \"book diplomacy,\" and the policy of \"containment.\" All this was orchestrated by a multi-faceted dual national Franco-American, Georges Duplaix, who worked for the CIA.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Duly Noted: Subversive Paratexts in Contemporary African American Poetry","authors":"Laura Vrana","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910955","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article examines an ever-proliferating, little-discussed phenomenon: notes in contemporary African American poetry. Attending to the form and content of these threshold spaces elucidates how Black poets operate within but refuse incorporation into historically white institutions. Reading three examples— Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith, To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young, and Dangerous Goods by Sean Hill—it argues that these successful poets do not view notes as of an \"incidental nature\" but manipulate them, operating in but not of the discourses they mimic. Poets exploit this textual space to subvert institutional limits; their annotation yields self-reflexive outcomes that demand attention as descended yet distinct from paratexts of Black precursors.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work","authors":"Sarah Brouillette","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910954","url":null,"abstract":"Wattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work Sarah Brouillette (bio) Wattpad is a reading and writing platform that is mainly free to use, which allows users to easily upload and interact with text, and is developing techniques to chart reading behavior and to deploy this data to shape ongoing content production. It has accumulated a vast treasure of material—by one count now \"the biggest database of user-generated fiction\"1 online—and every moment of engagement with that material is gathered in the form of data and marshalled in a panoply of ways. In one of the earliest studies of the platform, Melanie Ramdarshan Bold positions Wattpad as part of what Henry Jenkins famously celebrated as the \"participatory culture\" of productive fandom, a generative \"prosumption\" blurring amateur and professional modes. Bold argues that social computing \"has created a shift from consumer culture to a culture of participation\" that allows people \"to contribute to social collaboration and production instead of, simply, passively consuming products.\" In turn \"writing is slowly becoming more open and democratic,\" while \"traditional publishers are no longer the sole gatekeepers of written culture.\"2 More recently Claire Parnell has studied Wattpad as a sign of the need for a broader \"integration of publishing and platform studies.\" She argues, like Bold, that cultural production now takes place in a \"media environment where the distinction between non-professional amateur and professional, commercial creativity continues to blur.\" Yet for Parnell Wattpad's case is best understood through an \"entertainment ecosystem\" approach. Within this ecosystem, \"the economic, technological and cultural assemblages of the platform shape content production and reception.\" To grasp its operations we need, Parnell argues, \"a non-hierarchical ecology model\" that has a \"heuristic value for connecting publishing and digital media studies as it allows for a consideration of cooperative intermedia relationships and [End Page 419] emerging media forms that exist within this dynamic sphere of creative production.\"3 My contribution to the scholarship on Wattpad parts ways both with the participatory culture approach and the ecosystem model. In emphasizing the expansion of inclusion in activities of cultural production, the participatory culture approach risks disguising the nature of exploitation and profit making in the industry. In emphasizing horizontal connections and complex networks, the entertainment ecosystem approach risks overlooking the determining force of platform capitalism on the nature of cultural experience today, while evacuating any real critique of the effects of social media on the behaviors and mentalities of readers and writers.4 I embrace Simone Murray's caution in her work on authorship in the digital age: that we must not \"retrofit\" transformation in the book industry with \"a discourse of authorial empowerment\" that helps pave the way \"for a","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction","authors":"Sarah Bull","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910951","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article reconsiders the role of compiling in the modern history of authorship. Nineteenth-century readers viewed compiling as the purest form of \"book-making,\" a mechanistic, market-oriented model of authorship that stood in opposition to authorial genius. The article examines these authorial models' intertwined origins in emergent industrial capitalism, and argues that book-making retained currency as a model into the early twentieth century partly because unattributed text reuse remained common. It also argues that in the aggregate, unattributed text reuse had epistemic and informational effects that anticipated challenges we are grappling with following the development of large language models.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910957","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Goddæuses' Dürer-Inspired Trademark: The Meanings, Origins, and Strategic Uses of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Printer's Device","authors":"Michael Durrant","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.a910949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910949","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article offers a close reading of a seventeenth-century trademark deployed by the Rotterdam-based printers Henry (1633-1684) and Johanna Goddæus ( fl . 1660-1690). As part of this analysis, I show that that the central motif in the Goddæuses' trademark, which depicts the Gospel event known as the noli me tangere , is in an intertextual relationship with an earlier devotional woodcut by the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). This acknowledgement, I argue, enlivens a reading of the Goddæuses' trademark as a multimodal paratextual form, which: 1) visually foregrounds the three-dimensional and tactile qualities of the material text; 2) helps to advertise the empirical and experiential dimensions of the books that it brands; and 3) promotes the artisanal efficacy underpinning its owners' book-making practices.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bh.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134996141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}