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2 et al.: Volume 23, Number 4 SHARP News Volume 23, Number 4 Autumn 2014 Conferene Reviews Current Diretions in Book History: Borders without Boundaries 2014 Annual Meeting of the Bibliographial Soiety of Canada/La Soiété bibliographique du Canada (BSC/SbC) Brok University, St. Catherine s, Ontario May 2014 In his keynote address, The Bibliographi Study of Born-Digital Texts, Alan Galey of the University of Toronto hallenged onferene attendees with three assertions: first, book history is defined by its methodologies, not its objets; seond, texts are not born, they are made; and third, the print vs. digital binary rarely leads anywhere interesting. He onluded with a provoation about moving bibliography beyond books. Using video games as an example, he asked how the bibliographial method might be useful for understanding new territories of ultural prodution. These assertions, offered in the final session of the onferene, epitomize a range of olletive onerns tabled over the two-day annual meeting. During the question period of a panel entitled Digital Curation: Are We Fulfilling our Obligations to Future Generations? How Does Digital Curation Relate to the Curatorial Praties Employed by Speial Colletions Libraries?, BSC/SbC President Linda Quirk pointed out that disussions about digitization all too quikly rely on the buzz-word aess. However, preservation, she argued, is always the first step in the arhival proess. What is the point of aess, if there is nothing there? In warning us to address the mantra of aess with aution, Quirk foreshadowed Galey s all to dispense with the term born-digital, whih effaes the labour of the oders who build digital texts. Throughout the onferene, delegates deried the pied piper of terminology for oluding everything from material onstraints to politial objetives. Conferene panels showased initiatives aross Canada working towards the preservation of ultural identity and knowledge. While the onferene sub-theme hampioned borders without boundaries, Amy Hildreth Chen and Kendall Roark reminded their audiene that restritions on arhival holdings, whih sholars often find irksome, are in plae to protet families and donors. In fat, the idea of boundaries emerged as an important themati throughout the onferene, from the exlusion of immigrant languages from early twentieth-entury Ontario libraries (Elizabeth Hanson) to the underground transnational publishing praties of Bolsheviks (Andrea Hasenbank). Notably, Pierre Hébert oyly engaged with the onferene sub-theme, delivering a paper entitled Censure sans frontières : L èrivain le plus ensuré du Québe, Louis Dantin, a passé toute sa vie littéraire à Boston. In reognition of Dr. Hébert s outstanding servie to Canadian bibliography, the BSC/SbC awarded him the Marie Tremaine Medal. An expert on the history of ensorship in Québe, Hébert has published five books on the subjet. He has published another fourteen on topis ranging from narratology to book history. Hébert serves as o-diretor of the Groupe de reherhes et d études sur le livre au Québe (GRÉLQ) and the president of the Assoiation québéoise pour l étude de l imprimé (AQÉI). His aeptane speeh eloquently moved between Frenh and English, demonstrating his talent for ommunity-building. Cradling the Tremaine Medal medallion in the palm of his hand, this year s winner posed with past winners Sandra Alston (1988), Patriia Fleming (1992), and Carl Spadoni (1999) for a ommemorative photo. For many in attendane at the AGM, this photo honoured the impressive ahievements of BSC/SbC s members. To the BSC/SbC s redit, the onferene managed to offer the intimay of a speialized onversation amidst the bustle of the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Soial Sienes. No onurrent panels were run, ensuring that delegates ould trae thematis from one panel to the next. Sessions were well attended, and emerging sholars had the pleasure of reeiving questions from some of the most estimable olleagues in the profession. The BSC/SbC highlighted its ommitment to early areer sholars in awarding its first Emerging Sholar Prize to Rahel Bryant for her paper Towards the (In)digitization of the Arhive: Preserving, Sharing, and Proteting Indigenous Knowledge in New Brunswik. Like many good onferenes, onversations spilled over into the wine and heese reeption. In a long orridor of a modern glass building on Brok s ampus, the delegates of the BSC/SbC onferene disussed new diretions for the ommunity. The modern arhiteture fit the onversation, as many delegates expressed an interest in digital humanities training to address the growing need of bibliographers to study e-books. As the onferene drew to a lose, this sholarly onversation beame peppered with the hatter of friendships forged by years of meeting to disuss ommon interests. The next meeting of the BSC/SbC will take plae the day before the ommenement of SHARP 2015 (7 10 July), in Montréal-Sherbrooke, Québe. Kristine Smitka University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Contents Conferene Reviews 1 Annual Report 3 Exhibition Reviews 5 Book Reviews 8 DHSI Reports 21 Editors in Review 23 Call for Nominations 23 Bibliography 23 The Last Post 24 Published by SholarWorks@UMass Amherst,

3 2 Autumn 2014 SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 [2014], Art. 1 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 4 SHARP News Editor Sydney Shep, Wai-te-ata Press Vitoria University of Wellington PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand 6140 editor@sharpweb.org Editorial Assistant 23.4 Sara Bryan Publiation Assistant, Wai-te-ata Press Review Editors Joanna Howe, Books Europe Bath Spa University, UK reviews_europe@sharpweb.org Clayton MCarl, Books Latin Ameria University of North Florida, FL, USA reviews_lat_am@sharpweb.org Jeffrey Makala, Books - North Ameria University of South Carolina, SC, USA Erin A. Smith, Books - North Ameria University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA reviews_usa@sharpweborg Susann Liebih, Books Australasia/Paifi James Cook University, QLD, AUS reviews_ap@sharpweb.org Abhijit Gupta, Books South Asia Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India offog1@gmail.om Lisa Pon, Exhibitions Southern Methodist University, TX, USA reviews_exhibs@sharpweb.org Molly Hardy, E-Resoures Amerian Antiquarian Soiety, MA, USA e_resoures@sharpweb.org Bibliographer Ceile M. Jagodzinski Lanaster, NY, USA bibliographer@sharpweb.org Subsriptions The Johns Hopkins University Press Journals Publishing Division PO Box 19966, Baltimore, MD membership@sharpweb.org 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. COPY DEADLINES: 1 Marh, 1 June, 1 September, 1 Deember SHARP WEB: Language Speaks Us: College English Assoiation- Caribbean Chapter Annual Conferene University of Puerto Rio-Mayagüez Marh 2014 The Caribbean Chapter of the College English Assoiation (CEA-CC), primarily based on the island of Puerto Rio, has been devoted to the study of the diverse ultural materials that fall under the umbrella of English for over forty years. In Marh the assoiation s annual meeting brought aademis from the Caribbean and throughout the world to the University of Puerto Rio-Mayagüez for the Language Speaks Us onferene. The attendees were a ombination of senior faulty and graduate students, and the panels spanned a diverse range of themes inluding politial propaganda, performane art, pedagogial approahes, ultural migration, Puerto Rian publiations and those of the diasporas, and the links between e-media and traditional print, among other topis. Sholarly meetings in the Caribbean often have a diverse range of languages, ritial approahes, and historial themes, whih ombine for a unique intelletual experiene. While the language of our onferene is English, there are usually panels on multilingual texts, patois, and publishing in the region (and elsewhere). The event began with a panel inluding David Bartholomae (author of Inventing the University, perhaps the most ited work ever published on English omposition), who disussed writing and revision in multiultural lassrooms. The question-answer period began a lively dialogue on the role of language and print text in digitized publishing, pedagogy, and other forms of ommuniation. The onversational nature of the panel set a tone of open disussion and exhange of ideas that ontinued throughout the onferene panels and soial events. Some papers tested the boundaries of language as a medium and the frontiers that separate genre: Luis Vega s paper, for instane, was a piee of performane art that played with traditional approahes to visual art, poetry readings, minidramas, literary ritiism, flash fition, and newspaper reports, turning into an improvised metatheater that involved everyone present at the panel (and a great deal of laughter!). In the same panel, Joelle Mendoza mapped out the role of language in the forms in whih ativism and ritial thinking have been riminalized by state institutions, and posed some aptivating ideas about the use of texts to mobilize soial ation. Melissa Saywell s paper was a provoative take on use of language in the onstrution of gender and alternative masulinities in Drag Comedies. Many panels opened intriguing sets of researh questions about the utilitarian and aestheti role of print and e-media in olonial disourses. A panel with German Vargas, hari stephen kumar, and Amine Zidouh interpreted how the emergene of literature, ritiism, and institutionalized uses of language often hinge upon epistemi questions that an provoke politial disord. The multilingual disourses in literary texts an funtion as a ounterbalane, demoratizing these means of ommuniation by infiltrating them with more organi forms of ultural material. A session with Astrid Sambolin, Jennifer Moore, and Marta Viada Bellido de Luna examined the role of language in the formation of olletive identity, remapping the onventional uses of seond-language pedagogy away from a disourse of dominane (and therefore subjet-formation) and toward a poetis of inlusive and more partiipatory uses of onversation in seond-language teahing models. James Penner, Rubén Mendoza, and Rik Mithell ollaborated on an examination of dystopian realities in The Living Theater s Paradise Now. Their arguments reonsidered the audiene partiipation, lost audio reordings, and subjet-formation in the work of the experimental theater. These performanes, as the presenters demonstrated, mix nontraditional ombinations of moving image and use of text for a thought-provoking take on the ultures of New York in the 1960s. One of the more interdisiplinary panels involved David Logue, a biologist; Gala Porras-Kim, a linguist; and Benjamin Shultz- Figueroa, a speialist in film. The papers reonsidered the nonverbal reprodution of thought for animals and humans through onversational analyses of whistling and metaphor. They argued that nonverbal ommuniation warrants as muh attention as traditional texts, in part beause the medium allows the speaker to represent, and sometimes unsettle, emergent oneptions of soial power. The onealed nature of the disourse (whistle and metaphor) allows the message to be magnified, thereby enrihing its limits. 2

4 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 4 et al.: Volume 23, Number 4 Autumn 2014 d 3 These panels were omplemented by poet Natasha Sajé s keynote session, whih, in addition to a poetry reading, was a refletive report on the role of language in the publiation, revision, and dissemination of her reative writing. Puerto Rio has delightful weather in Marh whih is in dry season and the lunhes on Friday and Saturday were served outside on the terrae of the Student Center. On Saturday, after the onferene, as the sun was setting, dinner was held at a restaurant on the waterfront. The long shadows from the palm trees and the roll of the swell on the shore proved to be an enjoyable venue for enjoying loal fare and drinks while engaging in some vigorous intelletual disussions. The next CEA-CC Conferene will take plae on 12 and 13 Marh, 2015, at the University of Puerto Rio-Mayagüez. The theme is Disability Studies and the CFP and formal desription are available on our website. (See: <blogs.uprm.edu/ea>.) Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera University of Puerto Rio Annual Report 2014 This is adapted from the report presented at SHARP s Annual General Meeting at Antwerp on 20 September More detailed, individual reports are available on request see ontat details following eah setion, or on <sharpweb.org>. SHARP s Struture SHARP is made up of an Exeutive Counil of nine eleted offiers, a Board of Diretors, various appointees (most obviously the editors of Book History and SHARP News, but also the various review editors, the moderator of SHARP-L, the Book Prize judges, members of the Nominating Committee, and so on), as well as of ourse the membership as a whole. There are no paid positions, so we are very grateful to all those members who volunteer their time to support the Soiety and its ativities. If you would like to be more involved in SHARP, please do approah any one of the Exeutive Counil offiers. The next eletion for positions on the Exeutive Counil and the Board of Diretors will be held at next year s onferene. If you wish to stand, please ontat Carole Gerson, hair of the Nominating Committee: <gerson@sfu.a>. See also announement on page 23 of this issue. President & Vie-President Ian Gadd and Sydney Shep are pleased to report that the Soiety ontinues to flourish, and that we are in the fortunate position of being able to support a wide range of ativities and projets. These inlude: Sholarships. We ontinue to sponsor SHARP sholarships at the Rare Book Shool at the University of Virginia, the California Rare Book Shool, and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at Vitoria University in British Columbia so far, we have awarded twenty sholarships. We are also funding a Rare Book Shool sholarship at Vitoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Translations. We are delighted to announe the first fruits of our translations projet, whose purpose is to make key works of sholarship in the history of the book more widely known. Seleted artiles in Hebrew, Spanish, Japanese, Frenh, and Chinese have now been translated into English and published on the SHARP website. We are grateful to the Translations Committee and espeially the hair, Susan Pikford, who spoke about the projet at the AGM and also haired a panel on translation during the onferene. Book History Online. SHARP ontinues to work with Andrew Pettegree and his olleagues at the University of St Andrews, and Arjan van Dijk from the publisher, Brill, as they redevelop this valuable online bibliography, whih was formerly based at the Royal Library of the Netherlands. We d like to thank the following members who have stepped down from various offiial roles for all their hard work: Ezra Greenspan, editor of Book History; Patrik Leary, moderator of SHARP-L; Meraud Ferguson Hand, SHARP News bibliographer; Kathy Harris, SHARP News e-resoures reviews editor; and Millie Jakson, SHARP News North Amerian books review editor. Last year, we began a proess of refleting on our ambitions and ativities as an organisation, and we irulated a short manifesto to all the members earlier this year for omment. We are now revising this doument, with a view to using it to identify our priorities for the oming years. Contat either <president@sharpweb. org> or <vp@sharpweb.org> for further information. Finanes Jim Wald onfirms that we are in robust finanial health. Membership dues and royalties from Book History provided us with over US $48,000 sine last July, of whih we have spent almost US $34,000. That expenditure inluded regular items suh as the Book Prize, the maintenane of the website, professional affiliations, and the prodution, printing, and distribution of SHARP News; we also supported SHARP members through sholarships, and SHARP ativities aross the world through our soiety and regional liaisons. We urrently have over US $240,000 in the bank, and among our priorities for is the establishment of an endowment for the Soiety. Membership fees are olleted by Johns Hopkins University Press, who dedut a fee for their servies and also dedut their osts for the publiation of Book History, before passing the balane on to us. The Conferene Grants that we award every year are funded by a surharge on all the registration fees olleted at the previous annual onferene; apart from these grants, eah onferene is self-ontained and managed by the sponsoring institution. A full finanial report is available from Jim Wald upon request ontat <treasurer@ sharpweb.org>. Membership Eleanor Shevlin reports that, for , our membership stood at just over 1100, a slight inrease from the previous year. About 80 per ent are individual members and 15 per ent are students or independent sholars, with the remainder being institutions suh as libraries. Members ome from over 40 different ountries: 60 per ent are based in the US, with Canada, the UK, and the rest of Europe eah ontributing about 10 per ent; we also have healthy numbers in Australia, Belgium, Finland, Frane, Germany, and the Netherlands. Johns Hopkins University Press has improved our online diretory to enable easier searhing for other sholars working on similar topis, periods, or regions, and will shortly be implementing a more sophistiated system for reording our own researh interests. We have also expanded the range of benefits for members. Contat <members@sharpweb.org> if you would like more information.... /4 Published by SholarWorks@UMass Amherst,

5 4 Autumn / 3 Soiety and Regional Liaisons Eleanor also manages about two dozen liaisons with affiliated soieties in various disiplines and interdisiplinary groupings, many of whih host SHARP-sponsored panels. These inlude major North Amerian sholarly organisations suh as MLA, AHA, and ASECS. The work of liaison offiers is vitally important to inreasing SHARP s reah beyond our own annual and foused onferenes. Often they an propose a SHARP-sponsored panel to be held in the ontext of a larger onferene; they also irulate brohures and sometimes host reeptions to bring SHARP to the attention of sholars who were previously unaware of our ativities. Simon Frost oversees a host of regional liaisons based in over twenty different ountries. These liaisons do everything from supplying brohures and other promotional material for loal events to mounting fullfledged foused onferenes with the SHARP stamp of approval. In the past year, we have supported events in Argentina, Puerto Rio, Australia, Spain, Ireland, and Finland. For more information, ontat <liaisons@ sharpweb.org> or <external@sharpweb. org>. Conferenes Bertrum MaDonald ats as our primary liaison for SHARP s annual and foused onferenes. Last year, that inluded the annual onferene in Philadelphia and foused onferenes in Le Mans and Rio de Janeiro. Next year, our annual onferene will be held in Montréal, Canada, hosted by l Université de Sherbrooke, MGill University, and the Bibliothèque et Arhives nationales du Quebe; there will also be a foused onferene in Monterrey, Mexio. We an also formally onfirm Paris as the venue for our 2016 onferene. In addition, we are already in disussion with potential hosts for the annual onferenes in 2017 and 2018, and are exploring the possibility of a foused onferene in the US. If you are interested in hosting either a foused or an annual onferene, or have ideas about where we might take a future SHARP onferene, please ontat Bertrum. We have implemented two major hanges to how we support onferene planning and organisation. We are onverting our old paper-based onferene manual into an interative online resoure, and we are very grateful to Lee Wilson for all his help with this. SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 [2014], Art. 1 As most of you will know, it has been our regular pratie to submit paper and panel proposals for the annual SHARP onferenes using an online system. This is something that onferene organisers themselves have always had to organise. However, from next year SHARP itself will be providing the online system for reeiving and reviewing proposals for the annual onferenes. Eah onferene will still appoint its own programme ommittee to selet proposals and draw up the programme, but our hosting of this system will enable members to retain the same login details year-on-year and will allow us to maintain an arhive of proposals. Finally, SHARP is an Affiliated International Organisation of the International Committee of Historial Sienes, and aordingly we have organised panels for its five-yearly onferene, whih will take plae in August 2015 in Jinan, China. Contat <atlarge@sharpweb.org> for more information about these initiatives. Publiations and Awards Claire Squires oversees our two regular publiations Book History and SHARP News and also the George A. & Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize. Ezra Greenspan, one of the two founding editors of Book History, has now stepped down, and we have appointed two new editors, Greg Barnhisel and Beth Le Roux, to join Jonathan Rose. We are very grateful to Fiona Blak, Jason Ensor, Abhijit Gupta, Barbara Hohman, Miha Kovač, and Robert Patten, who assisted Claire with the seletion. We have also moved to an online editorial management system whih will allow us to keep trak of artile submissions more effetively. SHARP News ontinues to appear quarterly with its digest of reviews and reports. We are developing a digital version to enable it to beome more timely and more responsive to members needs. SHARP News editor, Sydney Shep, is to step down, and we welome Padmini Ray Murray, late of Stirling University, shortly to head a digital humanities initiative in Bangalore, to head the journal from here on. We appreiate your patiene and enthusiasm during this time of transition. Helen Smith s Grossly Material Things : Women and Book Prodution in Early Modern England (2012) won the DeLong Prize last year. This year, the judges Daniel Traister, Marie-Françoise Cahin and Kirsti Salmi- SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 4 Niklander onsidered over fifty books, and seleted at last Old Books, New Tehnologies. The Representation, Conservation and Transformation of Books sine 1700, by David MKitterik of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Book History editors award a prize for the best graduate student essay. Last year, this was won by Brigitte Bek Pristed for her artile Glasnost Noire: The Soviet and Post-Soviet Publiation and Reeption of James Hadley Chase. This year s winner was Albert A. Palaios for his artile Preventing Heresy : Censorship and Privilege in Mexian Publishing, Contat <publiations@sharpweb.org> for more information about these projets and prizes. Eletroni Resoures Jason Ensor manages our digital ativity; this is most obviously the website, but he is also ultimately responsible for SHARP-L and SHARP s various soial media aounts. He has been losely involved in developing the onferene resoures site with Lee Wilson and Bertrum MaDonald, and in implementing the online onferene proposal system that we will use for all future annual onferenes. He is also urrently preparing a major redesign of the website to make it more aessible on mobile devies and easier for us to keep updated. SHARP-L is one of the oldest sholarly listservs, and has been heroially managed by Patrik Leary sine the early 1990s. Patrik is now stepping down, and we are assembling a small team of moderators. Please ontat Jason if you re interested <webmaster@ sharpweb.org>. Arhives and Reord-Keeping Corinna Norrik-Rühl is the Soiety s Reording Seretary, whih made her probably the busiest person at the onferene after the onferene organisers. She has also been working with Jim Kelly at the University of Massahusetts to develop an arhival poliy for all SHARP s ativities, and we have reently signed a formal Deed of Gift to that effet. She manages all the Exeutive Counil ommuniation and douments, as well as our LinkedIn aount. Contat <seretary@sharpweb.org> for more information about these initiatives. 4

6 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 4 et al.: Volume 23, Number 4 Autumn 2014 d 5 Exhibition Reviews Arhiving Publi Sex University of Toronto Art Centre 29 April 28 June 2014 Under the auspies of aademe, Arhiving Publi Sex is a rare opportunity for those who may be inhibited by bourgeois onventions to onsider the unknown pleasures of publi sex in a safe and sanitary environment. The artifats, posters, flyers, photographs, books, ephemera, and films sreened in the bak of the exhibit hall may give some the same uneasy feeling that our grandparents experiened when going through the door of a Times Square sex show. To an older generation, publi sex is made to seem omfortable in the venue of a university museum. The diverse array of multi-media materials that onstitute the exhibit was drawn from the Sexual Representation Colletion (SRC) loated in the Mar S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Curated by Niholas Matte, Curator of the SRC with University of Toronto students Lisa Kadey, Jessia Martin, and Ana Martins, the exhibit hallenges its viewers to ontemplate how sexuality and sexual praties have been defined by soial, eonomi, and artisti onventions in the reent past. The exhibition thus narrates the impat of these hanges on our understanding of sexuality today. As a joint projet of the University s departments of Sexual Diversity Studies and Museum Studies, this initiative is a powerful pedagogial devie worthy of emulation. In effet, the exhibit employs a peep show mentality, whih is both its strength and weakness. Viewers are given a glimpse into a variety of publi sex ativities, suh as bondage, ruising, group sex, kink, pegging, and movie theater, bathhouse, and bathroom sex, through the works of winners of the Feminist Porn Awards, the Morpheous Bondage Extravaganza, and leaders of the sex-positive feminist movement suh as Annie Sprinkle and Tristan Taormino. Unfortunately omitted are the impliations of the internet and soial media that fuel newly fashionable publi sex ativities, suh as hogging, in whih a group of men ruise for obese women and dogging, a phenomenon in whih people meet in publi parks to engage in sexual enounters. To understand what publi sex is, it would be have been useful for the urators to define the onept and to provide more information on the role of the state, hurh, synagogue, mosque, and other institutions in the soial, moral and legal prodution and regulation of publi sex. In addition, a brief historial overview of the development of mores for publi sexual ondut and the development of laws in the East and in the West for the regulation of openly eroti enounters would have been helpful. This is partiularly true in the ethnially diverse ommunity of Toronto. It is regrettable that an exhibit mounted on publi sex in Canada should totally exlude Frenh language materials, espeially sine Frenh literature and inema has been so influential in the domain of sexuality. Unfortunately, events in the Franophone provine of Quebe, or for that matter, plaes outside of Toronto, have been totally ignored. In the 1960s not every provine in Canada had its Stonewall moment. The real strength of this exhibit is that it shows us examples of inredibly interesting materials, inluding well preserved manusripts, books, orrespondene, posters, photographs, videos, and sex toys. In the past, arhives of marginalized areas of sexuality have not been heavily olleted in researh libraries, but suh arhives have grown in importane to support the emerging aademi disipline of sexual studies. Similar olletions inludethe Canadian Gay & Lesbian Arhives in Toronto, Human Sexuality Colletion at Cornell University, Jean-Nikolaus Treffer Colletion in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans-gender Studies at the University of Minnesota Library, Kinsey Institute Library & Speial Colletions at Indiana University, Magnus Hirshfeld Arhive for Sexology in Berlin, and Pride Library at the University of Western Ontario. Hopefully in the future the University of Toronto will be able to provide finding aids and digital fasimiles of items in the Sexual Representation Colletion so that researhers an explore this fasinating resoure in more detail. The old adage that sex sells is onfirmed by the presene of exhibit sponsors SotiaBank and Manulife Finanial. Perhaps these ompanies will support ataloging and digitization initiatives to expand aess to this truly wonderful olletion. Melissa MAfee University of Guelph, Ontario The Soul of a Man: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Slave Revolt Boston Publi Library, Boston, Massahusetts 17 June 30 September 2014 Eighteenth-entury maps of the Caribbean, banned books from the Enlightenment, detailed letters on olonial politis, and additional douments resist the presentation of a single narrative within the Boston Publi Library s reent exhibition. Instead, the multiple viewpoints of slaveholders and insurgents tell different sides of the story of the Haitian Revolution, and piee together an image of its leader, Toussaint Louverture. Organized in ollaboration with the Haitian-Amerians United In. and Haitian Artists Assembly of Massahusetts, the show highlights the Boston Publi Library s important olletion of Haitian and West Indies materials, whih inludes over 10,000 books and manusripts. Although visitors are often lured to the Central Library by its famous murals and open-air ourtyard, people seem equally drawn to the dark, intimate spae of the Rare Books lobby, where the exhibit is housed in ten ases and lit from above. Four main wall texts trae Toussaint s journey from bondage to a brilliant military and diplomati areer that gave way to the world s first blak republi. Born a slave in the Frenh olony of Saint-Domingue in 1743, Toussaint Bréda was originally named after the plantation on whih he grew up. In outlining his biography, the exhibit s first setion notes that Toussaint learned to read and write while working in the plantation house. This fat beomes partiularly signifiant in relation to the letters on view, some written in Toussaint s own hand and addressed to international offiials, inluding a United States onsul. His orrespondene is signed with Louverture, a name hange marking his later identity as a revolutionary and statesman. The Frenh word for opening, the title Louverture referred to his battlefield prowess, as he played ritial roles in the 1790s slave uprisings that would transform Saint-Domingue into Haiti. The seond setion of the exhibit is dediated to the early history of Saint-Domingue, beginning with Christopher Columbus s 1492 desription of the island of Hispaniola. Divided by olonial empires, the western side... /6 Published by SholarWorks@UMass Amherst,

7 Autumn 2014 This online exhibition provides a fasinating overview of the wide variety of ways that books were used during the Early Modern period. Based on the exhibition of the same name held at the Speial Colletions Researh Center at the University of Chiago Library between Marh and June 2005, and urated by Bradin Cormak and Carla Mazzio, the web exhibition was reated during the summer of 2009 and appears to be running indefinitely. An exhibition heklist gives full details of all the images displayed, and a 124-page illustrated atalogue is available for purhase on the website (124 pp., ISBN , US $15). On the introdutory page, Cormak and Mazzio theorize book use as a broader alternative to reading, refleting their inter-... / 5 of the island beame inreasingly valuable to the Frenh government, whih implemented a plantation eonomy. Exports of offee, sugar, and other fruits of slave labor pumped unpreedented wealth into Frane, depressing the island s natural resoures while failitating the mother ountry s developments in art, siene, and philosophy. The display inludes an 1802 hart showing the rapid importation of enslaved people from Afria, who would outnumber their white owners twenty to one by the end of the eighteenth entury. The swollen ranks of slaves benefitted, but also terrified, the plantation owners, who antiipated the rumbling of their way of life in the fae of revolution. The exhibition takes its title from a quote by Toussaint Louverture, I may have been born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a man. This sentiment is perhaps most thoroughly explored in the show s third setion, whih fouses on the slave rebellion of No longer enslaved by this time, Louverture and his fellow freedmen were inspired by the outbreak of the Frenh Revolution in 1789 and its mantra of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (values notably not extended to women or people of olor). While juggling negotiations between his Spanish allies and the Frenh rown, Louverture beame ommitted to emanipation and innovated guerrilla tatis that turned slaves into soldiers. Louverture s troops attrated valuable offiers as well as ompeting rebel armies equally set on shifting the balane of power on the island. This ompliated historial moment allows the Boston Publi Library to showase a fasinating new aquisition, the letters of Sebastien Lefresne. A Frenhman with dreams of beoming a sugar planter, Lefresne migrated to Saint-Domingue in the 1780s, only to onfront famine, yellow fever, and slave insurretions. His writings to his daughter hronile his own finanial ruin as well as the disintegration of the Frenh olony at the turn of the nineteenth entury. The fourth setion of the exhibit desribes Toussaint Louverture s tragi death and extraordinary legay. Eventually reognized by Frane as ommander-in-hief of the olonial army, Toussaint insisted on drawing up his own onstitution for Saint- Domingue, whih formally abolished slavery and delared him governor for life. Alarmed by Toussaint s growing autonomy, Napoleon sent a large military expedition to overthrow him. Although he died in a Frenh prison in 1803, Toussaint s deft leadership throughout SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 [2014], Art. 1 preeding deades made possible the independene of Haiti in As his body grew weaker, his story grew stronger, inspiring the biographies that are on view. Here, the library has set up a provoative ontrast, displaying books that ondemn Toussaint Louverture as a manipulative opportunist next to romanti aounts of his selfless life and martyrdom. The exhibition is puntuated by a ase holding engraved portraits of Toussaint. Aross these and similar examples, his skin tone ranges from soft grey to haroal blak; his eyes, nose, lips, and hin hange size and shape; he gains and loses earrings, hair ribbons, and hats. The exhibition would benefit from a disussion of Toussaint s elusive physial appearane, suh as historian David Geggus has reently written in an online publiation for the John Carter Brown Library, < Carter_Brown_Library/toussaint/index. html>. The absene of a definitive portrait of Toussaint Louverture makes exhibitions suh as this one, whih wrangle with an unwieldy history and an unlikely hero, all the more urgent. Layla Bermeo Harvard University Book Use, Book Theory: Online Exhibition < bookusebooktheory/> SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 4 est in a large array of ativities and praties on the interfae between people and books. Understanding the book as a site of reative misuse, the exhibition explores the relationship between books and the ations they prompt. Cormak and Mazzio see the payoff of this work as part of an effort to understand the way books shaped models of thought and informed theoretial speulation in the Early Modern period. In five main setions, the exhibition features pitures and aompanying desriptions of a variety of non-fition books from the period Setion 1: Tehnologies of Use fouses on the way a book determines its own use. The featured items all depit various paratextual elements like title pages and annotations whih were in this period more learly understood to be interpretive guides. The piture of a Bible with a lavishly embroidered binding is partiularly striking. Setion 2: Parts and Wholes: From Matter to Method looks at the way books were setioned, arguing that dividing a book into parts is always a form of thinking. The disussion of how an errata sheet worked to reate a srupulous reader is a high point. The final part of this setion uses Foxe s Elesiastiall Historie as a ase study to talk about how the individual paratextual elements ame together to reate a unified whole. Setion 3: The How-To Book looks at several genres of how-to books from the Early Modern period, arguing that they are both didati and enabling. Partiularly interesting was the disussion of John Bulwer s Chirologia: or the Natvrall Langvage of the Hand (1644), a preursor to modern sign language that instruted readers in how to use hand gestures to onvey seret information. Setion 4: Dimensional Thinking looks at books that represent time and spae, and depits a variety of tehnologies that prompt the reader to think beyond the page. These inlude popups, fold-out pages, and volvelles (rotating diss of paper, often layered on top of eah other). One anatomy book pitured has flaps that an be lifted to repliate dissetion. Setion 5: Taking Liberties uses examples as diverse as enylopedias and pornography to illustrate the unpreditable and often unrepresentable interation between a book and its reader or a book and its own ontents. This setion inludes an interesting disussion of anatomy books that were also learly read as pornography. Desribing the anxiety of writers who voiferously worry that their books may fall into the wrong hands, the 6

8 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 4 et al.: Volume 23, Number 4 Autumn 2014 d exhibition suggests that injuntions against misuse may ultimately serve as guides for the very behavior they aim to prevent. The online exhibition format admirably brings this rih material to the fingertips of anyone with an Internet onnetion, but it also neessarily plaes limits on the exhibition s impat. The images are best experiened on a large desktop sreen my 13-inh laptop seemed inadequate to the task. The situation is slightly better on a tablet or mobile, where the viewer an zoom all the way in at the expense of seeing the whole image at one. The layout of the page is also sometimes a problem, as it is often neessary to sroll between the text and the relevant image. Setion 4 in partiular suffered from the online format, as the two-dimensional images merilessly flattened the fasinating array of pop-ups, flaps, and volvelles disussed. Seeing them in person, even behind thik glass, would have allowed a muh better view. This said, the urators have done an exellent job displaying this material as fully as the online format will allow. The impliations of this exhibition s impliit argument will no doubt influene future sholarship in this field, even if it remains unlear whether the term use is meaningfully different than reading as it is most broadly onstrued. Further, the urators are perhaps a bit too eager to see use as inherently transgressive and disobedient, rather than understanding it as an at that ranges between the transgressive and the onventional. Despite these very minor ritiques, the exhibition is well worth exploring, or perhaps using, as you see fit. Ruth M. MAdams University of Mihigan, Ann Arbor Bookworks: The 15th Triennial PCBA Members Show San Franiso Publi Library 21 June 6 September 2014 Even the most interdisiplinary of book historians an sometimes forget that the term Book History an be quite restritive. The hoie of the word book privileges a ertain notion blok, ink, binding, leaves over other forms of written media. And history evokes long ago or in the distant past, whereas in reality the past extends right up to where the present begins. Books made yesterday are also a part of book history. Imagine this reviewer s delight, then, upon enountering Bookworks, a reent exhibition of handmade book-like objets reated by members of the Paifi Center for the Book Arts. These works are a happy reminder that book history is perhaps more properly, if more tongue-twistingly, termed the study and interpretation of all artifats of written ommuniation : a more permissive, expansive term whose purview an easily inlude broadsides and graffiti and (gasp) eletroni sreens alike. These lovely but intriguing objets annot but inspire a deep gratitude for having made the time to view them. Many sholarly dissertations or theses ould be written on them, for they are simultaneously deeply respetful of the rafts of bookmaking and yet push at the boundaries of the lassi book-historial question, What is a book? In short, a show like Bookworks eliits the sort of joyous appreiation and new analytial thoughts not always experiened while, say, ollating yet another 300-leaf folio Bible with misprinted foliation (and a pigskin binding that won t open flat) while shivering away in a too-old Rare Books reading room. Consider, for instane, Lyall Harris Kaleidosope, featuring an atual kaleidosope whose front end spits out an aordion-folded message, like a sort of tiker tape orale. Or take Judith Selby Lang s spetaular Navigate, onsisting of a ditionary whose words have been painstakingly lifted off the pages using measures of transparent tape, whih then asade away from the book like an upturned mop ontaining millions of disembodied words. Or look at Luia Harrison s Soil Core I, whih repliates a geologist s ross-setion of earth using diss of paper, leaves, and roots all held together within an open anister-like apparatus. Besides this, there are a free-standing paper-and-lae gown (Maria Weisbrot s For Jane at 200); a dek of tarot ards (Chris Rolik and Nane O Banion s Esoteria: A Reading Dek); an elegant woodwork board bearing pink flamingoes, a single brass key, a opy of Alie in Wonderland, and Srabble tiles spelling out the work s title (Flamingoes and Mustard Both Bite, by B. Alexandra Szerlip); as well as a olletion of embroidered eggshells (yes, you read that orretly; it s Sara Rantz Biel s Ovum Philosophium). Other piees are more traditional in appearane, but still ontain surprises. Jennie Hinhliff s Fragments is a book-like struture, but it unfolds to reveal two glassine envelopes filled with endless bits of paper: a treasure trove of printed, hand-stamped, and typewritten ephemera. Maureen Forys edition of Edgar Allen Poe and Stéphane Mallarmé s The Raven/Le Corbeau is an elegant notebook-size volume with a simple loth spine and a jaunty blak feather stiking out at the top. The viewer s inability to handle suh visually striking items does not prelude reognition of their pedagogial or anonial signifiane. Virginia Phelps AlphaBindary, for instane, is a omprehensive bookbinding urriulum in itself, omprising 50 minibooks whose bindings represent tehniques beginning with every letter of the alphabet. David Lane Goines woodut illustrations of ingredients for Alie Waters Chez Panisse Café Cookbook are printed on luminous white paper with generous margins, showing off as muh the artist s lean lines and steady hand as the hef s legendary faility with all kinds of food from fish to flora. And Jenna Rodriguez and Claire Sammons from A to Z an impartial bibliography is a fasimile of no, an homage to Johanna Druker s seminal 1977 work of the same name, printed from 48 different ases of type as a hallenge and experiment in typographial storytelling. Muh more ould be said of this extraordinary assemblage of media and makers. Perhaps the ideal thing to say, in losing, is that the 120 works featured in the exhibition splendidly reveal the diversity of the PCBA ommunity. Exhibition Chair Kathleen Burh reports that the show s ontributors inlude bookbinders, alligraphers, ollagists, onservators, graphi designers, illustrators, inkers, letterers, librarians, papermakers, photographers, printers, printmakers, sign painters, stone arvers, typographers, wine makers, wood engravers, writers, and zinesters. All these, I submit, are book historians too. Their olletive produtivity makes for a rih landsape of ontemporary bookmaking that ombines history, raftsmanship, and onnoisseurship with innovation, interpretation and imagination. This exhibition was sponsored by, and staged at, the Book Arts & Speial Colletions Center of the San Franiso Publi Library. Simran Thadani San Franiso Published by SholarWorks@UMass Amherst,

9 Autumn 2014 SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 [2014], Art. 1 SHARP News Vol. 23, no. 4 Book Reviews Katherine Aheson. Visual Rhetori and Early Modern English Literature. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, xii, 180p., ill. ISBN (hardbak). In Visual Rhetori and Early Modern English Literature, Katherine Aheson sets out to explore the role of diagrams and tehnial illustrations in the early modern imagination what she alls, after Elizabeth Eisenstein, brainwork. The premise of the book is both promising and ambitious, as the majority of sholarship on the visual aspets of early modern print has tended to fous on narrative illustration and artisti and stylisti advanes related to the birth of perspetive and verisimilitude. Turning to images that often make no effort to reprodue visual experiene, Aheson asks what role suh images played in the development of early modern representational pratie. If suh images are not intended to give the reader a visual approximation of the material ommuniated in the book, what kind of representational work do they do? To work through this question, Aheson examines four ategories of illustration alongside four works of early modern literature: military and hortiultural illustration and Andrew Marvell s Upon Appleton House, dihotomous tables and Milton s Paradise Lost, painting and drawing illustrations and Marvell s Last Instrutions to a Painter, and zoologial illustration and Aphra Behn s Oroonoko. Eah hapter is further organized around a defining onept, spae, truth, art, and nature, respetively. The first two hapters, on spae and truth, represent the book s strongest and weakest. First, reading Marvell s Upon Appleton House alongside military and hortiultural illustrations in printed books with whih Marvell was no doubt familiar, Aheson demonstrates how aspets of the poem that an sometimes be perplexing the juxtaposition of military and natural figures, for example may be a produt of the shared visual rhetori of these two forms of tehnial illustration. The results are quite striking. The seond hapter argues less suessfully for Milton s debt to the genealogial tree diagram and the dihotomous table in Paradise Lost. Aheson makes a strong ase for re-examining the role of these ubiquitous images in early modern books, but some might find the onnetion to Milton tenuous. When Aheson turns to art in the third hapter, the book regains its momentum. Analyzing the images adorning instrutional manuals on writing and painting, she makes a provoative argument about the form Marvell hose for his politially harged ritique of tehnology in his poem Last Instrutions to a Painter. In the final hapter, on nature, tehnial illustrations of animals illuminate Aphra Behn s novel inspired by travel to Surinam. The key distintion here, between the real and the natural, is not always as lear as the author would laim, but the images under onsideration are fasinating, and there is good reason to believe that Behn had them in mind while omposing the work. Overall this book is a welome addition to the growing number of studies on early modern visual ulture. Some will question the author s deision to onsider illustrations from the mid-sixteenth to the late-seventeenth enturies while only taking literary examples from the last quarter of the seventeenth entury. As the author laims that the illustrations were ubiquitous enough to have a broad influene on the way early modern English writers oneptualized spae, truth, art, and nature, one might expet a wider range of literary examples than is offered here. Nevertheless, anyone interested in the role of visual material in early modern English print ulture will want to read this book. James A. Knapp Loyola University Chiago Norbert Bahleitner and Murray G. Hall, eds. Die Bienen fremder Literaturen: Der literarishe Transfer zwishen Großbritannien, Frankreih und dem deutshsprahigen Raum im Zeitalter der Weltliteratur ( ). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p,. ill. ISBN (hardbak). This book ontains the ontributions (in German, English, and Frenh) to a onferene held in Vienna in The title, The Bees of Foreign Literatures, derives from a programmati statement by the German eighteenth-entury editor and publisher Friedrih Justin Bertuh on the value of literary transfer between national ultures. The editors of the olletion, Norbert Bahleitner and Murray G. Hall, ite Bertuh to stress the importane of literary transfer in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth enturies, the dawn of the Age of World Literature famously prolaimed by Goethe (7). While the international literary transfer of fition and nonfition around 1800 was the topi of the onferene, its purpose was a different kind of transfer: the interdisiplinary sholarly ooperation between literary history, book history, general history, and soiology, whih the editors urge in their introdution (7 9) an agenda that is as easy to applaud as it is hard to put into pratie. So what did the bees of interdisiplinary book sholarship bring to Vienna? The volume features the following ontributions: Robert Darnton on the re-import of banned Frenh literature into prerevolutionary Frane; Joseph Jurt on Goethe s onept of world literature; Jennifer Willenberg on German readers of English literature; John A. MCarthy on Christoph Martin Wieland s translations of Shakespeare; Ahim Hölter on German literary journals dediated to foreign literatures; Nikola von Merveldt on Joahim Heinrih Campe s adaptation of Robinson Crusoe for hildren; Alison E. Martin on Gotthilf Friedrih Kunth s heavily annotated translation of the British pituresque travel writer William Gilpin; Jeffrey Freedman on the ingenious and devious marketing of the Frenh translation of Friedrih Niolai s novel Sebaldus Nothanker; Susan Pikford on two rival translators of Sterne s Tristram Shandy, Johann Friedrih Zükert and Johann Joahim Bode; Reinhard Buhberger on the English Poket Library series of the Viennese publisher Rudolph Sammer; Rüdiger Görner on Adam Müller s appropriation of Shakespeare and Edmund Burke for his own aestheti and politial agenda; Bill Bell on Italian bookstores and reading rooms atering to English tourists; Norbert Bahleitner on Luise Gottshed, Dorothea Tiek, and other women translators; Christoph Charle on the export of Frenh drama and opera to stages in Germany and Austria; Johannes Frümmel on the Austrian ensorship of Frenh literature; Murray G. Hall on the opyright agreement between Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia, the first international treaty of its kind; and Irene Fußl and Ulrike Tanzer on Josephine von Knorr, a friend of Marie von Ebner-Eshenbah and translator of Byron s Manfred. Obviously this is more than a brief review an over. Let me just highlight a few instan- 8