Print Culture

‘The Anglo-Australian Booktrade’, Paper Empires: The History of the Book In Australia, Vol. 2., eds. Craig Munro & Robyn Sheahan-Bright (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2006)

by Brigid Magner

Anonymity, Authorship, and Recirculation: A Civil War Episode

by Ellen Gruber Garvey

Shaking Out the Bindings: Periodical Studies in Recent American Scholarship

by Ellen Gruber Garvey

Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Appropriation: Scrapbooks and Extra-Illustration

by Ellen Gruber Garvey

Published in the online history journal Common-Place

Extra-illustration or grangerizing, the remaking of printed books by adding illustrations and other matter according... more Extra-illustration or grangerizing, the remaking of printed books by adding illustrations and other matter according to the owner's tastes, shared with nineteenth-century scrapbook making the attempt to take ownership of a book.

Melchior Lorck - The Turkish Publication

by Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen

An excerpt of Volume 3, the catalogue of the Turkish woodcuts by Melchior Lorck and its different editions. Part of the 5-volume monograph on Danish-German artist recorded from 1526/27 - 1583. Co-authored and co-edited with Ernst Jonas Bencard on the basis of and elaborating on the material collected by Dr. Erik Fischer (1920-2011). This volume is primarily Ernst Jonas Bencards contribution.

A World of Words: Slides

by Anthony Mandal

Slides to accompany the paper, 'A World of Words'

A World of Words: Romantic Fiction and the Literary Marketplace

by Anthony Mandal

Paper first presented in 'The Romantic Book: A Day Symposium' (23 June 2011), organized by Dr Shafqat Towheed and Dr Nicola Watson at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

An overview of the legal and print cultural transformations that shaped the development of the novel in the Romantic... more An overview of the legal and print cultural transformations that shaped the development of the novel in the Romantic age.

Dislocal: disloyal and local

by Kate Smith

Co-authored with Ben McConville, this chapter will be available in 'What Do  We Mean by Local' (Mair and Fowler eds.,)  Arima Publishing 2012.

'Dislocal' looks at the effect of the contraction of local media in the UK on civic virtue, community and social and... more 'Dislocal' looks at the effect of the contraction of local media in the UK on civic virtue, community and social and political unrest.  Drawing on Ben Anderson's 'Print Culture' and Jurgen Habermas's 'Political Public Sphere' this paper asks if decreasing levels of local representation and participation contribute to an increase in violent or non-violent direct action, such as the London Riots of 2011.

El maestre Hans Giesser y el trabajo editorial: De la Grant estoria de Ultramar a la Gran conquista de Ultramar

by Cesar Dominguez

In Proceedings of the Tenth Colloquium. Ed. Alan Deyermond. London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary & Westfield College. 2000. pp. 115-130.

Cultures de l'écrit en Afrique. Anciens débats, nouveaux objets

by Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye

o.T. [Review] Martin Boghardt: Archäologie des gedruckten Buches

by Annika Rockenberger

Published in 'editio. International Yearbook of Scholarly Editing', 2010

A review on a collection of articles by Martin Boghardt, one of the most influential German bibliographers of the 20th... more A review on a collection of articles by Martin Boghardt, one of the most influential German bibliographers of the 20th century, dealing with analytical bibliography, physical bibliography, incunabula, textual criticism, typography and printing culture of the early modern period (1450–1800). A (new) standard reference book for all those engaged in bibliography!

'The Webb Family and Quaker Printing,’ The Oxford History of the Irish Book. Edited by James Murphy. Oxford University Press, October 2011.

by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

‘“We could be of service to other suffering people”: Representations of India in the Irish Nationalist Press, 1857-1887.’

by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 41, no. 1, Spring 2008, pp 61-77. 

Street singers in Italian renaissance urban culture and communication

by Massimo Rospocher

“‘Almost idolatrous love’: Caroline Dall, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Mary C. Crawford, and the Case of Elizabeth Whitman.” Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Ann R. Hawkins and Maura Ives. London and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Press, 2012. (119-132)

by Jennifer Harris

Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica, Intellectual History Review, 20 (2010), 227-252

by Matthew Daniel Eddy

Author: Matthew Daniel Eddy

Recent studies on commonplacing have shown that it flourished as an important information management tool and, in some... more Recent studies on commonplacing have shown that it flourished as an important information management tool and, in some cases, it functioned as a method (methodus) that facilitated the ordering of natural history systems. In what follows in this essay, I wish to extend this point by examining the role played by heads in the work of Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné). I address two core questions. First, what were the economies of attention that guided his commonplacing techniques? Second, what type of impact did his note-taking skills have upon the way that he spatially arranged information in texts? Whereas intellectual historians sometimes tend to focus on the role that he played as the unique originator of modern botanical and zoological classification systems, I approach his work merely as one example in a long tradition of commonplacing and graphic design that originated in the Renaissance, but which had become an indispensable organisational tool used to create knowledge systems in the leading research centres of Enlightenment Europe.

Street Singers in Italian Renaissance Urban Culture and Communication

by Massimo Rospocher

Co-authored with Rosa Salzberg, in "Cultural and Social History", Volume 9, Number 1, March 2012 , pp. 9-26

Street singers were crucial figures in Italian Renaissance urban culture, mediating between printed, written and oral... more Street singers were crucial figures in Italian Renaissance urban culture, mediating between printed, written and oral forms of communication. Performing in the central piazza,they offered entertainment, news, satire and commentary on current events to heterogeneous publics. But as the communicative capacities of the singers reached their peak, increasingly their presence in the city was seen as threatening and disruptive. The struggle for control of the piazza became particularly bitter in the later sixteenth century, when civic and ecclesiastical authorities strove to render public urban spaces more orderly and magnificent and to police the borders between sacred and profane spaces, times and ideas.

Keywords: orality, print culture, street performance, news, control

Formula and “Fixity” in South Slavic Oral Epics: A defense of South Slavic poetic verse against literary accusations of mechanicalism

by Lychee (Lai-Tze) Fan

Published in "TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies."

As the South Slavic oral epic originated in a primary oral culture – a culture that is unaffected by literacy – and as... more As the South Slavic oral epic originated in a primary oral culture – a culture that is unaffected by literacy – and as it is composed through repertorial formulas and themes, it may find itself subject to misunderstanding by literary minds, particularly through accusations of mechanical composition. This paper aims to argue that an idea of “fixity,” with regards to the South Slavic oral epic’s formulas and themes, is flawed when one considers the culture from whence it came. I examine the necessity of formulaic repetition in the South Slavic oral culture of the 1930s-1950s, arguing that, without literacy and the possibility of record making, repetition was the only method through which their history and culture could be preserved.

Drawing from Albert Lord’s study of the South Slavic oral epic, this paper establishes that while still existing in a primary oral culture, South Slavic poets interiorize formulas and themes until they are synonymous with reflexive speech. In order to demonstrate this, this paper explores the way in which a South Slavic boy learns to perform. I examine John Miles Foley’s delineation of the South Slavic decameter, which the South Slavic boy must learn as the foundation of all future lines of verse. I also demonstrate the efficiency of this foundation by studying substitution systems in epic verse; the mastery of substitution results in an instantaneous composition of song that is only possible through the interiorization of its elements.

This paper then considers the term homeostasis, which in the case of this verse, refers to the obsolescence of irrelevant cultural matter. Using a case study, I analyze a singer’s substitution of obsolete themes and formulas with ones of then-contemporary relevance, arguing that the formulas easily adapt to change. The South Slavic oral epic is thus not mechanical, but a naturalized art form.

Entertaining the Public: Satirical Interventions in the London Print Market, 1745–1784

by Danielle Thom

To be published in OBJECT (Issue 14), March 2012
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/object/

Unraveling the Curtain: Subversive Folds, Cleland's Memoirs, and the Sublime in Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Le Verrou," Rutgers Art Review 25 (2010): 43-62.

by Danielle Lenhard