SHARP News. Conferences 1. Contents. Volume 25, Number SHARP 2016 Reflections. Global Book History at Paris

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1 SHARP News Volume 25, Number Conferenes SHARP 2016 Refletions SHARP 2016 was a whirlwind of intelletual disussion in Paris. It was my first time attending a SHARP onferene, and I was really struk by the depth and breadth of the keynote presentations, paper sessions, and digital demonstrations. From Antoine Compagnon s opening keynote Monday evening on Ma langue d en Frane to the losing plenary roundtable on Thursday afternoon with guest of honour Roger Chartier, all of the featured speakers (Campagnon, Anne Coldiron, David MKitterik, and Chartier) offered thought-provoking meditations and arguments on the past, present, and future of the book inluding its sholarship, ontexts, and many ators. There were many highlights for me as a newomer to SHARP (not least of all the Wednesday evening floating banquet on the Seine, a rather memorable onferene experiene!), but I d like to highlight a few presentations here that espeially stuk out, beyond the aforementioned. Meaghan Brown, Jessia Otis, and Paige Morgan sat on a panel titled A Text by Any Other Name: Citing Primary Soures in Bibliographial and Early Modern Studies. Brown, Otis, and Morgan disussed a urrent projet they ve been developing where they ollet and analyze the itation data of a handful of key early modern journals. A time-heavy undertaking, to be ertain, but one that ould potentially lead to standardization aross publiations, whih would arry signifiant benefits for researhers, libraries, publishers, and journals alike. This themati panel allowed for an indepth and multi-perspetive engagement with the projet at hand. Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Marianne Martens, and Alexis Weedon ame together in a fasinating panel on ontemporary digital writing platforms and experienes aptly titled Contemporary Book History Disourse: Writing, Reading, and Researhing in the Digital Sphere. Bold presented on The Soial Author: Identifying a New Generation of Influeners and Innovators in Contemporary Authorship, where she examined the selfpublishing platform Wattpad and ompared the audiene impat of various users. Martens spoke to the growing orpus and ompliations of speialized fan fition in The Language of Betrayal: Ownership, Power, and Control of J.K. Rowling s Pottermore Website, and Weedon offered a thoroughly researhed and onsidered talk entitled Refleting on Uses of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Researhing Digital Reading and Writing, Online Communities, and Readers. All three presenters were engaged oneptually in digital publishing, and were able to offer audiene members a thorough overview of ontemporary trends, espeially within the ontext of a global readership. Andie Silva presented Planely and Truly Expounded : Navigational Paratexts and the Language of Mediation in a panel on Paratext and the Art of Mediation, and I think that paratext may have been one of the words most frequently found in the onferene programme and on attendees lips. The broad interpretations and appliations of Gérard Genette s theories lent the subjet matter a deserved weight. During the panel Imagining the Text: (Digital) Typefaes Past and Present, James Andrew Hodges explored book history ideas through experimental software in Timothy Leary s Inomplete Software and the Dream of Post-Literal Culture ( ). All in all, I found the SHARP 2016 onferene an inredibly rewarding experiene, and I hope that the brief synopses of seleted presentations above gives you a sense of some of the utting-edge researh being disussed in this ommunity. I look forward to weloming SHARP 2017 Tehnologies of the Book ( to my home ampus, the University of Vitoria, and to ontinuing the exellent disussions from July Meri SHARP 2016! Contents Alyssa Arbukle University of Vitoria Global Book History at Paris SHARP 2016 With the support of the Gladys Kreble Delmas Foundation, the SHARP onferene brought together six sholars from developing ountries, to review the state of book history in their native ountries. The speakers at the Delmas Workshop were from South Ameria (Argentina and Brazil), Asia (Vietnam) and Eastern Europe (Russia, Croatia, and Rumania). The session was ohaired by Jean-Yves Mollier (Université de Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales) and Susan Pikford (Université Paris-Sorbonne), who also ated as translator when this was required. Between 20 and 25 partiipants attended. We began with ontributions from South Ameria, by Mariana de Moraes Silveira, a dotoral student at the Universidade de São Paolo (Brazil), and Gustavo Sorá, an anthropologist from the Universidad de Córdoba (Argentina). Both spoke in Frenh. Mariana Silveira emphasized the existene of a strong tradition of antiquarianism and bibliography in late 19th and early 20th Conferenes 1 Book Reviews 4 Exhibition Reviews 38 E-Resoure Reviews 40 Bibliography 43

2 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 2 SHARP News Editor Padmini Ray Murray Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Tehnology p.raymurray@gmail.om Editorial Assistant Shalmi Barman Jadavpur University shalmi93@gmail.om Reviews editors Susann Liebih, Books Australasia/Paifi University of Heidelberg, Germany susann.liebih@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg. de Christina Ionesu, Books Europe Mount Allison University, Canada reviews_europe@sharpweb.org Clayton MCarl, Books Latin Ameria University of North Florida, FL, USA layton.marl@unf.edu Jeffrey Makala, Books - North Ameria Furman University, SC, USA jeffrey.makala@furman.edu Erin A. Smith, Books - North Ameria University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA erins@utdallas.edu Abhijit Gupta, Books South Asia Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India offog1@gmail.om Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Exhibitions University College, London m.bold@ul.a.uk Molly Hardy, E-Resoures Amerian Antiquarian Soiety, MA, USA mhardy@mwa.org Bibliographer Ceile M. Jagodzinski jagodzi@gmail.om SHARP News [ISSN ] is the quarterly newsletter of the Soiety for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, In.. The Soiety takes no responsibility for the views asserted in these pages. Copyright of ontent rests with ontributors; design opyright rests with the Soiety. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. SUBSCRIPTIONS: membership@sharpweb.org COPY DEADLINES: 1 Marh, 1 June, 1 September, 1 Deember SHARP WEB: entury Brazil, whih has now evolved into a form of book history onstantly open to European intelletual influenes. Brazil has always looked to Frane for its ultural models, and book history there absorbed the legaies of Frenh ultural history and the histoire des mentalités. Brazilian book historians have produed many sholarly studies of ensorship, the history of the press and of libraries, and important syntheses already exist, suh as Laurene Hallewell s Books in Brazil: A History of the Publishing Trade (1982), translated into (Brazilian) Portuguese in Today, researhers influened by the transnational turn onentrate on the reeption of nineteenth-entury Frenh fition but, in Silveira s opinion, onnetions with the United States remain underexplored. Silveira s masterly overview skethed the history and ahievements of a flourishing disipline whih asts regular glanes towards its Argentinian neighbours for omparative purposes. Gustavo Sorá s presentation onfirmed this growth of omparative Latin Amerian studies. Sorá outlined the relevant aademi programmes and researh entres on book history in Buenos Aires and Córdoba. He underlined the emergene of publishing houses speialising in book history, suh as Ampersand in Buenos Aires, whih reently produed the first national history of the book in Argentina by José Luis de Diego (La otra ara de Jano. Una mirada rítia sobre el libro y la ediión [The Other Fae of Janus. Critial Perspetives on the Book and on Publishing], 2015). In Argentina, as in Brazil, Sorá outlined a thriving autonomous tradition of book history whih remains extremely reeptive to external and espeially Frenh influenes, and is a vital part of an expanding network of South Amerian sholars in general. Lê Hông Phuo, from the Vietnamese National University in Ho Chi Minh City, provided a omplete ontrast. Speaking in Frenh, he briefly demonstrated the diffiulties involved in establishing a national book history in a post-olonial environment. He stressed the long history of the importation of Confuian literature from China in Mandarin, and in modern times the importation of Frenh books and the Frenh eduational system to Indohina. Vietnamese book historians may thus need expertise in Mandarin, traditional and alphabetiised Vietnamese as well as Frenh and English. Although many libraries exist even in rural areas, Lê Hông Phuo reported that historial researh in Vietnam has barely left the ground, and that its main value lies in its ontribution to the professional training of librarians. Our three eastern European olleagues, who all spoke in English, desribed diffiulties of a slightly different nature in their own ountries, and they loated the main problems in their emergene from Soviet or Soviet-style regimes in Russia and Rumania, or from Yugoslav ommunism the ase of Croatia. Tatiana Bogrdanova, a Ph.D student from the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, explained that researh into book siene virtually ground to a halt in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years, when the book market was flooded with propaganda literature produed on a massive sale by state-regulated publishing houses. After the fall of ommunism, many publishers ould not survive eonomi de-regulation and ollapsed; but eventually university programmes, independent sholarly journals and libraries reovered. The Mosow State University of the Printing Arts dominates the field of book studies and information siene in Russia. Bogrdanova pointed towards a potential threat to further progress in Russian book studies the growing intelletual isolation of the Russian Federation does not augur well for its future. In Croatia, as Nada Topić from the Solin Publi Library reported, book studies remain a new field involving a small researh ommunity. The disipline is entred around libraries, information siene, museology and the digitisation of the national heritage. The main entres of ativity are at the three universities of Zagreb, Osijek, and Zadar. Alex Cioroga, a Ph.D student from Babeș-Bolyai University at Cluj-Napoa (Rumania), told a similar story: book history is not a systemati field of researh in his ountry. He skethed the slow emergene of a Rumanian national literature (17th entury), a national newspaper press (19th entury) and Rumanian publishing houses (20th entury). As in Russia, the sudden introdution of a market eonomy after the fall of the Ceausesu ditatorship preipitated the failure of many bookshops and publishers. Overall, the presentations offered strong ontrasts between well-developed researh traditions in South Ameria, and book history in its infany in the other ountries surveyed. In Eastern Europe, the label book siene implied a slightly different emphasis than

3 SHARP News Vol. 25, no d 3 does the phrase book history, with whih western European and North Amerian sholarship is more familiar. Book siene grounds the study of books within the field of traditional bibliography and adopts it as an instrument in the voational training of librarians. In spite of this, the history of reading is an under-developed field in all the national ontexts under disussion. In disussion, Roger Chartier enouraged book historians to take a broader view of the intelletual ontext of their subjet. If we define book history or book siene too narrowly, he argued, we would fail to onnet it to important ultural developments like the Central European Enlightenment of the eighteenth entury. He went on to remark that the history of ensorship was a field in whih all the ountries represented had an interest; the omparative history of ensorship awaits its author. The Delmas Workshop demonstrated the varied and multidisiplinary nature of book history; but it also showed us that a global view of book history onfronts us with different definitions of what atually onstitutes the disipline. I believe, however, that we all have an interest in understanding what book history looks like through another s lens, and SHARP hopes that similar workshops at future onferenes will pursue this. We eventually intend to publish a seletion of the presentations in translation through the SHARP website. Martyn Lyons University of New South Wales Digital Antiquarian Conferene and Workshop Amerian Antiquarian Soiety 1 5 June 2015 Under the dome of the Amerian Antiquarian Soiety s ioni reading room, librarians, arhivists, and aademi researhers ame together this June to investigate the ways in whih the digital humanities and arhival study interset. Juxtaposing the perspetives of book historians and library urators, panels showased the work of sholars who employ digital methods in innovative literary and historial researh. After an opening keynote by Kenneth Carpenter and Mihael Winship, the first day of the onferene primarily foused on digital methods in the study of historial newspapers. Leon Jakson opened the first panel by reminding us of the etymologial roots of the digital that is, the Latin digitas, whih pertains to the use of the fingers (or toes). Like many others who thought of the relationship between the physial and its eletroni representations, Jakson argued that digital haptis should work to reover a sense of tatility through relative saling and other types of bibliographi desription. Todd Thompson and Jessia Showalter asked what it might mean to reate a sholarly edition of a newspaper, while William Slauter aggregated and re-ontextualized ontent from eighteenth-entury satirial British newspapers to show how they mirrored ontemporary soial praties. Many speakers onsidered how the appliation of digital methods to arhival materials might draw forth new narratives. Elizabeth Maddok Dillon, for example, used text enoding to disembed runaway slave advertisements from newspapers, reating a new genre of interpolated Caribbean slave narrative where none had previously existed. Mihael Kelly disussed the proess of building an arhive of Native Amerian literature at Amherst and, in his study of a sermon by Samson Oom, used metadata and networking to bring indigenous histories to light. In a wide-ranging keynote address that opened the seond day of the onferene, Carl Stahmer onsidered the future of bibliography in a linked data environment. As an alternative to field-based databases, he proposed a system of peer-reviewed soial uration, a model that would embed proess and provenane within eah reord. The Digital Antiquarian Workshop, whih took plae the following week, would pik up many of the questions about digital bibliography that Stahmer raised. Conferene presentations onveyed the depth of the host institution s olletions as well: by way of her work with the Mather family library, Meredith Neuman examined arhival slippages that our when ataloging print-manusript hybrids. Thomas Knoles, Curator of Manusripts at the AAS, disussed a forthoming edition of William Bentley s diaries, whih inlude unpublished book aounts a rih, untapped resoure for early Amerian book historians. Several partiipants also onsidered metadata itself as a historial objet: Craig Carey onsidered the finding aid as a doument of ultural history, one whih resists the hroniity of narrative. While presenting Loyola University s Jesuit Libraries and Provenane Projets, Kyle Roberts took a nineteenth-entury finding aid as an objet of inquiry and as a snapshot of earlier epistemologies. Fousing on the outdated tehnology of the mirofilm, Lisa Gitelman investigated the prehistory of the digital and asked questions about nested re-representations that digital forms annot always fully apture. The enduring importane of human interpretation alongside digital methods was a key takeaway of several other presentations. Lauren Klein fused the arework of arhivists, who enat a type of guardianship over the past, with the odework of omputational methods suh as topi modeling. Edward Whitley explored the use of networks in the Vault at Pfaff s projet, onluding that this tool an manage vast amounts of information but also an flatten the soial relationships it is meant to onvey. In the losing panel, Matthew P. Brown approahed N-gram ounts and orpus-based analysis with skeptiism and humor, proposing terms like arhival reading and small data to re-orient digital sholarship toward detail, historiity, and the intimay of the material. In the week following the onferene, a group of 18 sholars partiipated in the Digital Antiquarian Workshop. Led by urators, atalogers, and guest instrutors, the workshop offered pratie-based learning in methods for digital arhival study. The gaps and silenes of the arhive were a frequent onern, as researhers onsidered what is lost in the ats of uration and preservation and how behindthe-senes deisions about the shematis of information shape the knowledge that is gleaned from them. Diverse library materials featured prominently in many of the presentations and exerises: newspapers, works of graphi art, manusripts, hybrid douments, and even nineteenth-entury board games were used to illustrate the hallenges of representing historial materials in standardized information systems. Many of the attendees study the history of print and therefore benefitted from the AAS s wealth of materials relating to the printing and bookselling trades: their Printers File, for example, helps date early Amerian printed matter and forms the basis for the AAS s

4 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 2 Children s Literature Database. Partiipants gained a thorough knowledge of MARC and learned strategies to lean and manipulate atalog data in order to do historial analysis with metadata. Many of the problems of misinformation that arise from searhing digital atalogs are not neessarily rooted in arelessness, Alan Degutis pointed out, but arise from the fat that we are asking new questions of longstanding logis. Questions of aess ran through many of the disussions as well: how an databases be optimized for searhing and browsing? How an atalogs and digitized opies aid in the serendipitous disovery that often aompanies arhival researh? Digitization, text enoding, and image presentation with Omeka were all explored as avenues to failitate publi aess. Following a week that linked the knowledge of librarians, ataloguers, and arhivists with the skillsets of digital humanists, onferene and workshop attendees left Worester with new tools to enrih their researh and new perspetives on the old and new alike. Book Reviews Sara Partridge New York University Niole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth, eds. Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Amerias. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, p. ISBN US $29.50 (paperbak and ebook); US $59.50 (hardbak). Books have life spans and life hanes that orrelate positively with the rae of the author, argues Joanna Brooks in her brilliant essay, The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Blak Books Tell Us about Book History. Brooks is partiularly interested in those substantial, more priey books of more than forty-eight pages. Still, we an autiously extend her insight to other raialized material texts, whih fae some of the same existential hallenges, from being written, published, sold, bought, read, reprinted, [and] irulated in the first plae to being olleted and preserved over time. Hene the foundational importane of olletions like Dorothy Porter s Early Negro Writing (1971) to the institutionalization of Blak Studies. However unfashionable suh reovery projets may have beome in English and history departments, Afrian-Amerian literature ontinues to be enlivened by the ongoing ritial resusitation of early works. To this end, Niole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth have brought together seven other literary sholars and one historian to offer analyses of a genre whose sope is as transnational as the vetors out of whih it arose: institutions of Afrian enslavement, missionary and abolitionist movements, and a rapidly expanding early modern print ulture (5). Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Amerias is only the most reent in a series of anthologies that seek to get Beyond Douglass (in the apt title of Mihael Drexler and Ed White s 2008 olletion) by setting bak the lok and widening the ompass of Afro-diaspori life-writing. Briton Hammon, Boyrereau Brinh, Juan Franiso Manzano, and Omar Ibn Said not Frederik Douglass and Harriet Jaobs are the key figures here. (The absene of female authors is duly noted.) Although the fous remains on suh onventional narratives, José Guadalupe Ortega makes fasinating use of the judiial reords housed in the Cuban National Arhives to reonstrut the strategi legal self-fashioning of a Bahamian slave who, in the upheaval of the Haitian Revolution, esaped to Cuba. As Juan Antonio, the fugitive English slave forged a new identity as a skilled wage laborer even as Cuba s slaveholding sugar eonomy benefited from the influx of suh workers. But the olletion s most original, substantive essays ome from its most junior ontributors. Basima Kamel Shaheen offers an informative aount of the literary, Qu rani allusions and strutures that, she argues, makes the Arabi Life of Omar Ibn Said (1831) a revealing ountertext to the highly publiized life of this purported Christian onvert and South Carolina slave. R. J. Boutelle persuasively exavates the Cuban and British literary and politial ontexts that informed the prodution and reeption of Irish abolitionist R. R. Madden s ompilation of Manzano s (and Madden s own) poetry and prose in Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba (1840). Yet Boutelle s efforts to interrogate the privilege aorded to the author funtion in slave narrative studies through a print ultural methodology that shifts us away from the figurative language of voality/ voie that dominates the field laudable as they are points to a entral problem with the olletion. Published in November 2014 after a very long journey from the 2010 Soiety of Early Amerianists Speial Topis onferene on Borderlands (ix), the olletion feels surprisingly out of date. Boutelle s exellent essay is only one of the hapters that ould have been strengthened by dialogue with (among other reent book-historial projets) Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein s Early Afrian Amerian Print Culture. (Published in spring 2012 by Penn Press, the olletion inludes Brooks s Unfortunates. ) Other than in Kristina Bross s apparently more reent Coda, the only itations to soures published after 2011 are to Marus Rediker s Amistad Rebellion and editor Aljoe s own Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, (Citations to 2011 and 2010 soures are nearly as rare.) As this 2016 review of a 2014 anthology illustrates, aademi publishing faes its own hallenges to survival. But surely, in the terms of the marketing argot by whih we are inreasingly asked to assess our outomes, the value-added of a published volume of ritial essays over a onferene is its more thorough and thus enduring engagement with ongoing ritial disussions in the field. It is only by speaking with, not past, eah other that sholars an ensure that textualized Blak lives ontinue to matter and survive in the future. Jeannine Marie DeLombard University of California, Santa Barbara Anglo-Saxon Manusripts: A Bibliographial Handlist of Manusripts and Manusript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to Compiled by Helmut Gneuss and Mihael Lapidge. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, xix, 937p. ISBN / $ (hardbak). Attempting to ompile and reord the entire known orpus of manusripts produed or historially owned in a single ountry over a period of five enturies is at best a daunting, if not impossible, task. Trying to do so while also providing as omprehensive a reord as possible of the ritial multi- and interdisiplinary sholarship dealing with those manusripts transforms suh a projet from a (relatively) simple if painstaking, lengthy, and exeptionally useful at of bibliography to a sholarly effort of heroi

5 SHARP News Vol. 25, no d 5 proportions. In their Handlist (surely a word that understates the massive undertaking this work represents), Professors Gneuss and Lapidge have provided Anglo-Saxon and manusript studies sholars with a remarkable, elegantly organized, and exhaustively informative resoure that will not just guide the work of researhers in these fields, but one that also will help determine the ourse of future sholarship in these areas for deades to ome. The publiation of the Handlist represents the ulmination of a projet whose origins streth bak over 60 years to Prof. Gneuss s days as a young sholar at St. John s College, Cambridge, when, as the volume s prefae states, he first began to lay out plans for suh an effort. The first version of the list emerged in the 1970s as an in-house referene tool for graduate students at the University of Munih, but reognizing its wider utility, Prof. Gneuss expanded its ontents and eventually published it for international sholarly onsumption in With ontributions of further information and researh from sholars around the world, a muh fuller and more detailed updated list was published in 2001, with two subsequent lists of additions and orretions appearing in 2003 and In ollaboration with Prof. Lapidge, work on the Handlist s final form ommened in 2005 with the identifiation and addition to the list of all relevant seondary publiations related to eah of the inluded manusripts. The result of this massive undertaking is impressive, to say the least, and the data presented inludes entries for 1,291 known Anglo-Saxon manusripts whether odex or fragment written in England up to the year 1100, and additional manusripts written in the rest of Britain, Ireland, or the European ontinent, provided that they ertainly or probably reahed England before The Handlist is a model of organizational elegane and effiieny designed to make eah entry as informative and illustrative as possible, while at the same time remaining lear and easy to read. The ompilers divide the list into two main setions, the first reording manusripts housed in British libraries, and the seond listing those manusripts now loated in olletions outside Britain. Also inluded is a third, very brief, setion identifying known, but now lost and untraed, manusripts and fragments. Within the two major divisions, eah individual entry provides a wealth of data laid out with eonomy and larity, inluding standard information suh as the following: eah manusript s urrent loation and shelfmark; its date of prodution (determined by a ombination of information related to its history, ontents, and odiologial and paleographial qualities); its firm or tentative plae of origin; its known or inferred provenane history; and a listing of its textual ontents. Not inluded are desriptions of the manusripts odiologial, paleographial, and deorative features, as full desriptions of suh details are readily available in other published resoures. Supplementing all of this is a massive and massively useful systemati bibliography of seondary resoures published primarily up to 2010 (with studies of unquestionable importane published through 2012) that deal with eah of the manusripts inluded in the inventory. As useful as the individual entries reording the manusripts loations, origins, provenane, and ontent may be, it is the added value of this omplementary seondary information that, in my opinion, makes the Handlist an absolutely essential and suessful referene tool. The bibliographial portions of eah entry are subdivided into numerous setions iting seondary resoures dealing with a range of topis, inluding: studies of the manusript as odiologial or paleographial objet; examinations of deorative, illustrative, and art historial ontent; itations of published editions of the texts inluded in eah manusript (but only in the ase of editions that are based on the manusript in question or that inlude the manusript in its formal ollation of soures); analyses of language and linguisti elements; general studies that onsider the ultural, historial and textual ontexts of the works preserved in eah manusript; and referenes to fasimile appearanes of the manusripts, whether in omplete editions or as seleted reprodutions of individual pages published to aompany sholarly works. Although the ompilers do not inlude referenes to digital fasimiles due to a variety of (good) reasons related to spae and the often ephemeral nature of web-based ontent, in the volume s general introdution they do provide a list of some of the more important (and stable) online resoures, suh as the British Library s Catalogue of Illuminated Manusripts, the Parker on the Web featuring relevant manusripts at Corpus Christi College (Cambridge), and the Bodleian Library website. If the volume has any weakness, it would be its inability to update its seondary bibliography automatially. Hopefully, however, there are plans in plae to update this ritial information at regular intervals in the years to ome. More than 60 years in the making, this Handlist represents the most signifiant bibliographi ahievement in the field of Anglo-Saxon manusript studies. But it is also muh more than a tool that failitates aess by listing known manusripts and their urrent loations. It also enables researhers to ontextualize individual manusripts within their larger historial, textual, and artisti settings, as well as identify ritial launae waiting to be filled. Additionally, it provides a remarkable bibliographial model upon whih many future atalogues of medieval manusripts ould and should be based. Eri J. Johnson The Ohio State University Autorenbibliotheken: Ershließung, Rekonstruktion, Wissensordnung. Bibliothek und Wissenshaft 48. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p., ill. ISBN (paperbak). Author s libraries gained inreasing interest in reent sholarship. The 2015 issue of Bibliothek und Wissenshaft is devoted to the subjet and the six ontributions to the journal study author s libraries with a regional fous on Germany and Switzerland during the late early modern period and the Age of Enlightenment. An interview with the ontemporary writer Péter Esterházy opens the olletion of studies and provides insight into the ways in whih authors use, ollet and arrange their books. Ivonne Rohmann s ontribution deals with the possibilities of reonstruting author s libraries. Rohmann has hosen a set of interesting examples for her study. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s library is pratially omplete and the signifiane of the poet, as well as his ability to provide for the keeping of the library finanially, has made it an outstanding example for an author s library. Reonstruting the libraries of Johann Gottfried Herder and Christoph Martin Wieland proves onsiderably harder,... /6

6 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 2 given that their book olletions were sold almost immediately after the death of the authors. Rohmann demonstrates how their ontents an be traed today through the use of aution atalogues and inventories, as well as through searhing in aademi libraries. Goethe s reading habits have been well studied already and in her ontribution to the journal Kirsten Krumeih turns her attention to the borrowing of books belonging to the German author. Goethe also served as head librarian of the library and Krumeih traes how he ontrolled the aquisition of new books for the publi library in aordane with the holdings of his own library so as to avoid unneessary expenditures. The borrowing reords also reveal that Goethe took out books for his friends and aquaintanes and provided them with volumes that were normally meant for onsultation in the library only. Mihael Knohe and Dietrih Hakelberg disuss in their artiles two lesser-known German librarians and spiritualists, one from the seventeenth entury and the other from the nineteenth. Reinhold Köhler ranks amongst the most important German librarians with a strong sholarly interest. During his appointment as librarian at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Köhler amassed a library of over 6,000 editions of international works on fairy tales and related seondary soures. His library, Knohe argues, onveys the image of a sholar who wished to register all aspets of a field of investigation, a sholar who moreover had the aspiration to read everything he olleted. Dietrih Hakelberg studies the library of Benedit Bahnsen, a German spiritualists and émigré to the Netherlands based on a surviving aution atalogue and remainders of his library now kept in Wolfenbüttel. Hakelberg proves in his work that Bahnsen, who beame ative as publisher in the early 1660s, took a ue for his publishing programme from his own library. In the final artile, Magnus Wieland summarises studies of the ways in whih Friedrih Dürrenmatt has used the works in his library. Through this, he introdues a way of oneptualising different forms of marginalia based on the purpose that they serve for the author. Methodologially, the artiles use the entire toolkit of how to researh author s libraries, relying on, for example, indexes, aution atalogues, borrowing lists and publishing programmes. Taken together, the volume presents a well-seleted range of approahes with whih to onsider author s libraries. Both in terms of their sope as well as their theoretial perspetive, these artiles further our understanding of author s libraries in the German-speaking ontext. Jan Hillgaertner University of St. Andrews Margot Gayle Bakus. Sandal Work: James Joye, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, xviii, 310p. ISBN US $37 (paperbak). An engaged, ommuniative style and approah immediately mark out Margot Bakus s study of the role of journalisti and politial sandal in the work of James Joye as a fresh and winning ontribution to the ritial debate. Several well-established elements of the Joye story make this approah just right. Joye s work entrally and repeatedly dramatises the politial sex sandal that brought down Charles Stuart Parnell. His artist-hero Stephen Dedalus is espeially sensitive to this sandal and the profound politial rift whih ensued. Joye himself beame embroiled in an angry dialogue about the supposedly shoking nature of his early olletion of stories, Dubliners, whih sandalously kept them out of print for a deade. However, a suès de sandal was eventually the making of Ulysses as the underground lassi of literary modernism. In Finnegans Wake, Joye returned to the theme of sandalous sex rime and the plethora of disursive ativity that inevitably surrounds it. To approah this material anew in terms of sandal itself, and espeially the ways in whih politial self-interest and the institutions of the new journalism deploy and manipulate sandal as a politial weapon both then and now, is aute and engaging in a way that few aademi studies of Joye manage to be. Joye s writing is full of journalism and often about journalism, and it is a strength of this study that the ambivalenes of its omplex relation to its journalisti other and the entrality of this to Joye s ultural empowerment are kept in view. Arhivallyflavoured, espeially in its use of artoon illustrations, the study might perhaps have promised exhaustive in-depth examination of the speifi journalisti soures of Joye s writing. As it is, the energeti line of attak works with some reasonably well-known but important material that is given a new edge in terms of its sandalous dimension: suh as the sandal of Parnell and Osar Wilde, and the presene of the Vitorian ampaigning journalist W. T. Stead in the saving of Stephen from Nighttown in Cire, and even the sandalous elements in Shakespeare s life and plays. Interestingly, the fresh approah of Bakus s study reminds us that sandalmongering journalism works by naming real people just as Joye notoriously does in his fition. Highbrow and lowbrow forms of ulture lash unsettlingly in the world of sandal and an ethis that an all too often merge into hyporisy. We are reminded by the study throughout that sandal is a ulturalpolitial weapon and that, although it hurt Joye s areer and his reputation in several ways, requiring him to onstrut a quasimythial image of the publily hounded and betrayed artist, and perhaps ontributing to the aloofness of the Dedalus persona and the diffiulty of the later work, it might also have been a weapon whih he ould use and adapt for aestheti ends. Rihard Brown University of Leeds Vinent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon. Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Ion and Business Woman. Farnham, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, x, 238p., ill. ISBN (hardbak). Vinent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon provide the first full-length, sholarly examination of the professional life of the internationally renowned British writer and early Hollywood personality, Elinor Glyn ( ). Although few reall the name today, the authors ably indiate that a serious study of Glyn whom they all a pioneer of a new mode of professional authorship (3) is long overdue. The publiation of her first novel, The Visits of Elizabeth (1900), made Glyn a best-seller in the UK and the US as well as the British Soiety s leading novelist. Her sixth novel, Three Weeks (1907), provoked an enormous outry from Anglo-Amerian ritis for telling the tale of an older, mysterious, married Balkan Queen s sedution... /7

7 SHARP News Vol. 25, no / 6 of an aristorati English youth in a manner that seemed to santion the priniples of free love. Glyn turned this ensure to her professional advantage, rafting a persona as a glamorous authoress who offered the publi advie on modern romane, sex roles and sexuality through her fition, nonfition and extensive journalisti work. Her suess in this part eventually brought her to Hollywood in As Barnett and Weedon amply demonstrate, one ensoned in Los Angeles, Glyn took ooperative involvement in the film industry further than any other literary figure of the era, both personally as an individual star author and ross-media elebrity, and professionally as part of a wider group of family ollaborators whom the authors all Team Glyn (3). During the 1920s, Glyn intimately oversaw what she alled the piturization of her stories, inluding her most suessful story-to-film adaptation, It (Paramount, 1927), starring Clara Bow. The authors onlude with Glyn s return to Britain in 1929 to diret two motion pitures whose ommerial failure ended her long-sought desire to attain omplete ontrol over the proess of translating her ideas into film. Glyn s areer allows Barnett and Weedon to offer insight into the emergene of many of the praties that attend ommerially suessful authorship in the twentieth entury. Their areful work in Glyn s arhive at Reading University unovers her role in forging or perfeting this proess through her development of a personal brand (in today s parlane), embrae of ross-media promotion, and efforts to ontrol the shepherding of literary works aross national boundaries and into different media forms. Their ontention that Glyn s remarkable suess and influene she helped to spawn the modern romane genre after all was derided or ignored until late beause of literary sholars disomfort with low-brow popular writers and feminist ritis onern over her interest in fashion and (alleged) espousal of reationary sex roles seems wellfounded and is supported by reent artiles that examine Glyn s ideas about sexuality in more depth. One wishes at times that the authors ventured a bit further afield from reounting the intriaies and details of Glyn s many ontratual negotiations in order to assay broader interpretive laims. The tendeny to draw lightly upon film, women s, and ultural history ompounds the authors drift toward raising as many questions as they answer. In the end, the reader is left to wonder why Glyn s stature was so muh greater in the US than in the UK, how muh she managed to shift ideas about sex and in what partiular diretions, and whether gendered assumptions blinkered the deisions of Team Glyn as muh or more than the film produers with whom she worked. But intriguing further questions are, after all, one of the best things that a first effort about an under-studied important figure an prompt. Hilary A. Hallett Columbia University, New York Alison Baverstok. How to Market Books. 5th ed. London and New York: Routledge, xx, 471p., ill. ISBN (paperbak). How to Market Books is, as the title suggests, a pratial guide for publishers and authors. It has been in print for over 20 years and is a well-established referene title. The new edition takes into aount extensive hanges in the publishing industry over the past five years, and Baverstok plaes her disussion in a broader framework: at times of great hange it s worth slowing down, isolating the theory behind pratie and looking bak for guidane on how previous generations solved problems (xv). Baverstok explains the basis of segmenting markets, branding, integrated marketing ommuniations, and relationship marketing. The book is omprehensive, even exhaustive, in defining terms used in the industry eg. different types of lienes, the omponents of promotional messages. One hapter is devoted to drawing up and monitoring a budget and strategies for seuring finanial support, while other hapters set out the steps in preparing a marketing plan, writing effetive opy, disseminating marketing materials, and working with the media. Breakout boxes ontain useful ase studies. Her experiene with publishing students is evident in the prefae to Chapter 8 ( Diret Marketing ): Even if you are in a hurry to get on and learn about online marketing, please read this hapter first (170). She rightly emphasises the importane of understanding foundational marketing priniples whih an be applied to speifi ontemporary irumstanes d 7 Baverstok writes in the introdution that she has expanded the book s overage of soial media and this is partiularly well done, with pratial examples showing publishers how they an use metadata effetively to inrease the likelihood that prospetive readers will ome aross their titles in online searhes, tips about the use of Faebook, Twitter, and author engagement, as well as a aution about the amount of time that may be required to maintain a blog: it s muh easier to start one than to keep it going (224). Pleasingly, ase studies of publishers use of soial and online media indiate the ways in whih they themselves are learning through trial and error. Part III ontains Speifi Advie for Partiular Markets and, while few readers would be likely to draw on all of its setions, eah one provides knowledgeable, pratial advie. Having reently undertaken a study whih involved interviewing over 25 senior publishers in Australia, I was interested to ompare Baverstok s advie with these publishers aounts of their marketing strategies. It was impressive to see the strong onnetions between Baverstok s logially set out explanations, framed in sound marketing priniples, and CEOs disussions about their own experienes of marketing in the ontemporary environment. Baverstok briefly aknowledges the uneasy tensions between editorial-driven publishing and marketing, and the inreased role of marketing in many publishing ompanies, but the purpose of the book is not to engage in theoretial debates about these issues. Rather, this book is partiularly useful for publishing studies ourses where the material ould be disussed setion by setion over a longer period of time and students ould apply the theory to their own projets. Small publishers may also find it a useful resoure and valuable for omparing their own experienes with those outlined in the ase studies. Given the extensive hanges underway in the industry, aspiring publishers will benefit from the book s overview of developments and the pratial impliations for onneting more readers with their books. Jan Zwar Maquarie University

8 SHARP News Vol. 25, no. 2 Anna Bayman. Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, viii, 160p. ISBN (hardbak). When the dramatist and pamphleteer Thomas Dekker wanted to take the temperature of London s Jaobean book trade, he had the steeple of St Paul s Cathedral itself survey the ativities onduted below in its hurhyard: at one time, in one and the same ranke, yea, foote by foote, and elbow by elbow, shall you see walking, the Knight, the Gull, the Gallant, the upstart, the Gentleman, the Clowne, the Captaine, the Appel-squire, the Lawyer, the Usurer, the Citizen... the Sholler, the Begger, the Dotor, the Ideot, the Ruffian, the Cheater, the Puritan, the Cut throat... the Law-man, the True-man, and the Thiefe, of all trades and professions some, and of all Countreys some. While the building itself was aghast at the heedless pursuit of eonomi interests, the promisuous mixing of soial lasses and nationalities taking plae in its environs, the pamphlet in whih this extravagant prosopopoeia first saw print, Dekker s The Dead Tearme (1608), drew its lifeblood from suh eleti ompany. As Anna Bayman shows in this insightful and eloquent study of Dekker s relationships with London s burgeoning trade in heap print, Dekker s pamphlets made their way in the world by remaining open to the multiple perspetives, voies and interests of a diverse body of metropolitan readers. Bayman suggests that this multivoality and a willingness to entertain apparently disordant positions was one of the most enduring lessons that Dekker learned from his early areer writing for the stage. (He was involved in the authorship of around 50 plays before 1603, when plague fored him to seek writing inome from other soures). Bayman only makes this point in passing sine she largely avoids Dekker s theatrial output in favour of a fous on his printed prose and verse. The book begins by surveying the ultural and bibliographi status of pamphlets in seventeenthentury London. The seond hapter narrows the fous to study Dekker s plae within Jaobean book trade and patronage networks, putting him in the ompany of a kindred of dramatist-pamphleteers like Thomas Middleton as well as printers and publishers suh as Nathaniel Butter and William Ferbrand. The final three hapters analyse Dekker s anatomisation of London as an enthralling ommerial and rereational entre as well as sink of sin and vie. Bayman srutises Dekker s onstrution of stok haraters suh as gulls and rogues in detail to argue that he was sensitively attuned to the performativity of ivi and moral identities, exposing the rules aording to whih [London] operated (115) for readers who were enouraged to know and appreiate the metropolis rather than be terrified by it. The final hapter onsiders the politio-religious dimension of Dekker s pamphleteering, demonstrating his preferene for peae following the aession of James I exept a brief period of belligerene immediately after the Gunpowder Plot. What was unique about Dekker s perspetive on suh matters, and distinguished him from ourtly writers or those assoiated with the ivi elite, was his emphasis on the onnetion between peae and the benefits of trade... for the melting pot of individuals who... flourished on the trikling down of the prosperity of the merhant and ourtly elites (144). There are plenty of highlights in this book. The introdutory work on pamphlet retail priing is aute and nuaned, and offers a welome orretive to a prevailing assumption that the ost of an unbound book was equivalent to the prie of admission to an outdoor theatre. Bayman shows that a fair-length pamphlet of 48 pages ould ost 4d and was thus more expensive than publi open-air playhouses where the heapest entry was 1d (28 9). Likewise, the bibliographi work with Dekker s Foure Birds is a treat, revealing how the author s migration from preferred quarto to otavo format mirrored a rhetorial move to the quiet piety of a prayerbook (128). However, the business of rhetori, tehnique and style is not nearly so well handled as the bibliographi analysis. We are repeatedly asked to take apparently revealing things about Dekker s harateristi style on trust; attribution of works to Dekker are asserted beause they are harateristially verbose (127) and wholly in keeping with Dekker s style (21), or how in stylisti terms [partiular pamphlets] ould ertainly be his (120). There is, however, no sustained analysis of the speifially literary and rhetorial tehniques that Dekker deployed to distinguish himself from other pamphleteers in this ompetitive and rowded marketplae. It really is very surprising, too, that a book so sharp on bibliography should fail to provide one. Given the notoriously diffiult business of attributing anonymous pamphlets, it would have been extremely useful to see a list of primary works onfidently attributed to Dekker as sole author alongside o-authored piees and those of unertain authorship. These, though, are launae in an otherwise fasinating study whih will be of interest to all students of the pamphlet ulture of early modern England. Marus Nevitt University of Sheffield Paul Begheyn, S. J. Jesuit Books in the Duth Republi and its Generality Lands : A Bibliography. Leiden and Boston: Brill, xvii, 454p., ill. ISBN (hardbak). Jesuit Books in the Duth Republi and its Generality Lands delights in its thoroughness. In the opening lines of both the prefae and the introdution, we are reminded that, for the last two deades, the author of this work, Paul Begheyn, has ombed through Europe s researh libraries in searh of hard bibliographial evidene of early-modern Jesuit book publishing. He has fleshed out our understanding of some fasinating volumes, made many new disoveries, and hased down extant opies of the most obsure texts. That suh remarkable and valuable work might have struggled to find a suitable publisher Begheyn desribes his volume as born under a luky star, athing a wave of growing interest in the history and ulture of the Jesuits is truly regrettable. Bibliophiles, serious students of the Jesuits and those, like the urrent author, fasinated by the rihness and diversity of the produts that exited from the presses of Europe s North during the early modern period, will find muh to admire. Begheyn justifiably revels in the ways that his bibliography updates and extends aspets of its departure point, the Alsatian Jesuit Carlos Sommervogel s turn of the twentiethentury Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, as well as other subsequent sholarly work. The bibliographer finds 430 editions not mentioned in Sommervogel, dismisses many false attributions and, due to his exlusive fous on the Duth republi and its generality lands, provides substantially more detailed desriptions whih extend to the street address of book publishers. It provides... /9