Book HistoryPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/bh.2022.0005
Drew Starling
{"title":"Unmasking Publius: Authorial Attribution and the Making of The Federalist","authors":"Drew Starling","doi":"10.1353/bh.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"25 1","pages":"63 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44647382","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}
Book HistoryPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/bh.2022.0007
Jennifer Manoukian
{"title":"Literary Translation and the Expansion of the Ottoman Armenian Reading Public, 1853–1884","authors":"Jennifer Manoukian","doi":"10.1353/bh.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"25 1","pages":"128 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43866118","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}
Book HistoryPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/bh.2022.0003
Germaine Warkentin
{"title":"Galen’s De Indolentia and The Fire of 192 CE: Through the Eyes of Book History","authors":"Germaine Warkentin","doi":"10.1353/bh.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Sometime in the spring of the year 192 CE,2 a fire–all too frequent in the jerry-built Rome of the time–raged through the Temple of Peace in the Forum, the centre of official Rome. Like several other monumental buildings on the nearby Palatine Hill, the temple possessed a library, where intellectuals often met for discussion.3 A cluster of other buildings on the nearby Via Sacra included two high-status warehouses for rare spices and valuable merchandise, the Horrea Piperateria and the Horrea Vespasiani. They also stored the valuables of wealthy Romans and others who were temporarily absent from the city. Pier Luigi Tucci imagines the situation as a north wind blew flames from the burning roofs of houses in the near-by Subura towards the temple, the warehouses, and onward south-west,4 but we need only recall the fire at Notre Dame on April 15, 2019, with heavy wooden roof-beams crashing down onto the cathedral’s vaulted ceiling, to reconstruct it for ourselves. The “fire of Commodus” swept away not only the temple, the libraries, and the warehouses, but almost all the personal possessions of one of the empire’s notables: Claudius Galenus, (129-ca. 200/16?), the most famous physician of his time.5 Among his losses were the rare medicaments he needed for clinical work, the unique bronze surgical instruments he had designed, and the bookrolls constituting most of his personal library: not","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"58 1","pages":"1 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41291640","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}
Book HistoryPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1353/bh.2022.0001
Howard Rambsy
{"title":"The Consequences of Competition: Book Awards and Twenty-first Century Black Poetry","authors":"Howard Rambsy","doi":"10.1353/bh.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"A New York Times Best Seller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Winner of the PEN Open Book Award Winner of the VIDA Award in Poetry Winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award in Poetry Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry Winner of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize An NEA Big Read Selection Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, New York, the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Slate, and Time Out New York.1","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"25 1","pages":"269 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49666007","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}
Book HistoryPub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0011
Ronald Broude
{"title":"Ballard, Lully, and the Books that Helped Change How We Think about Music","authors":"Ronald Broude","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1678, Parisian music printer Christophe Ballard departed from traditional practice by publishing Jean-Baptiste Lully’s tragédies en musique in full score. Score presents all vocal and/or instrumental parts in a single visual space, enabling users to form mental images of works, something impossible with the layout previously favored for ensemble music, part books, which distributed parts among different visual spaces. Other printers followed Ballard in publishing scores, thereby facilitating Music Criticism dealing in detail with specific pieces and passages. By providing access to music by means other than performance, score reified musical entities, encouraging the concept of musical works.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"297 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46342655","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}
Book HistoryPub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0010
J. Mattison
{"title":"Books in Books: The Idea of the Book in the Fifteenth-Century English Visual Imagination","authors":"J. Mattison","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines images of books in English manuscripts, c. 1360–1500. Through an analysis of one hundred manuscripts with such images, I demonstrate that medieval artists developed a shared idea of the book through the depiction of specific codicological features: wordless or illegible pages in board bindings with clasps. The coherent representation of these aspects of manuscripts emphasizes books as tactile, material objects. When artists diverged from the archetypal book, they often responded to the image’s textual context. Together, these imaginary books provoke readers to consider the materiality of the manuscripts as they read.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"267 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41616735","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}
Book HistoryPub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0016
G. Silverman
{"title":"Reading in the Flesh: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy and the Haptic Response","authors":"G. Silverman","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"451 - 475"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42459116","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}
Book HistoryPub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0017
Anna Muenchrath
{"title":"Cut, Copyright, Paste: Proliferating Print Networks in Susan Howe’s “Melville’s Marginalia”","authors":"Anna Muenchrath","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Susan Howe’s poetry sequence Melville’s Marginalia materializes the print cultural networks of authors Herman Melville and James Clarence Mangan by unveiling the passage and material trace of their works through the hands of editors, publishers, libraries, and readers. The form of these networks is duplicated in the method of Howe’s poetic practice, which is often Bartleby-esque, interchanging Howe’s words with those lifted from previous published and unpublished texts (often without attribution), and then alternatively editing, cutting, pasting, and re-writing them. Howe’s work suggests a model of authorship that questions the dichotomies of handwriting (or marginalia) and printing, authors and editors, and ultimately, autonomy and the network. This essay argues that Howe’s observation and proliferation of these print cultural networks is both an attempt to make visible and material the multiplicity of print network’s nodes, while also critiquing the concepts of authorship, authenticity, and ownership that undergird it. By reading Howe’s work along with the affordances of networks and against the history of U.S. copyright law, this essay asks how we might reconceptualize the authorship of texts in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"476 - 498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44811460","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}