Book HistoryPub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0014
Lucy Sixsmith
{"title":"“Injured Mutilated or Defaced”: How to Read a Bible in a Nineteenth-Century English Prison","authors":"Lucy Sixsmith","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the ways bibles are used, marked, annotated, and damaged, and what the evidence of marked bibles might contribute to book history in the nineteenth century. It offers a case study from nineteenth-century English prisons, comparing Elizabeth Fry’s annotated bible with a bible probably used by prisoners in Newgate, and with a bible transformed into playing cards in a Norfolk bridewell. These book-objects can be illuminated by analytical techniques borrowed from scholars of marginalia and of reading. The Bible offers a complex puzzle for book historians, in that it is often freighted with expectations, with a sense of sacredness—but it is also more ubiquitous than many books, and can seem simply like part of the furniture. Fry’s bible, and those used by prisoners, show signs of attentive reading, and of other kinds of handling. The material object provides a way into the experiences of a reading (or non-reading) community who might not otherwise have had the opportunity to leave traces of their experiences and their stories.","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"381 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42643957","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.2021.0015
E. McHenry
{"title":"“Out of the business once established could grow various enterprises”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ed. L. Simon & Co. Printers","authors":"E. McHenry","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"405 - 450"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47908072","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 : 2021-04-21DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0001
Carrie N. Knight
{"title":"Reading Themselves Sick: Consumption and Women's Reading in the Early Republic, 1780–1860","authors":"Carrie N. Knight","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"37 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bh.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42828754","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 : 2021-04-21DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0000
Kelly Minot McCay
{"title":"\"All the World Writes Short Hand\": The Phenomenon of Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England","authors":"Kelly Minot McCay","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"1 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bh.2021.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41678725","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 : 2021-04-21DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0007
Millicent Weber
{"title":"\"Reading\" the Public Domain: Narrating and Listening to Librivox Audiobooks","authors":"Millicent Weber","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"209 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bh.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44313286","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 : 2021-04-21DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0002
M. Daskalova
{"title":"Printing as Poison, Printing as Cure: Work and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Printing Office and Asylum","authors":"M. Daskalova","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"58 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bh.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47623023","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 : 2021-04-21DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0008
A. Garner
{"title":"State of the Discipline: Throwaway History: Towards a Historiography of Ephemera","authors":"A. Garner","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"244 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bh.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47944144","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 : 2021-04-21DOI: 10.1353/bh.2021.0003
J. J. Garcia
{"title":"Subscribing to Empire: The Global Expansion of American Subscription Publishing","authors":"J. J. Garcia","doi":"10.1353/bh.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43753,"journal":{"name":"Book History","volume":"24 1","pages":"114 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bh.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47700018","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}