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Program: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing |
Note: You must be a member in good standing of SHARP
to present a paper at the SHARP 98 conference. SHARP
memberships:
Dr. Linda Connors, Drew University Library, Madison, NJ 07940,
USA. Memberships can be purchased
Friday, July 17
9:00 am-10:30 am
History of the Book Projects International Round-ups
An informal update on progress
from projects around the world.
Canfor Policy Room 1600
10:30-11:00 am
Coffee Break
Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre
Rooms 1400-1430
11:00-12:30 am
A Textbook for Book History:
A Workshop
Discussion Leaders: Richard W. Clement, Michael T. Ryan, Daniel Traister and Jonathan Rose
Cominco Policy Room 1415
1:00 pm
Buses to UBC Campus
Meet at the Hastings Street exit,
SFU at Harbour Centre. Specially scheduled buses will take
participants to the First Nations Long House on
the UBC campus.
2:00-4:30 pm
Opening Presentation
and Performance
Points of Contact: Cultures,
Traditions, Print and Orality
At the First Nations Long House at
The University of British Columbia
Speakers
Robert Bringhurst has written 15 volumes of poetry, nine books, including The Elements of Typographic Style, works for theatre and film, and critical essays. He has lectured across Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. Among his many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry, Canada Council Senior Arts Awards, and a TIA International Design Award.
Yosef Wosk is a humanities scholar and rabbi of the Burquest community. A board member of the Vancouver Public Library, he is the author of many scholarly papers. His awards include the University Scholar and Alumni Award from Boston University, two Schecter Awards for Adult Education Programming and the NAACP Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Exemplary Community Service.
Special Guests
Vince Stogan, Musqueam Elder
Vi Hilbert, Salish Elder and Storyteller
4:30-6:30 pm
Reception and Presentation /
Display of Fine Books
Main Library of The University
of British Columbia
6:30-9:00 pm
SHARP Banquet
Traditional Salish Salmon Barbeque
The University of British Columbia Museum of
Anthropology
Saturday, July 18
Parallel sessions begin at Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre.
9:00-10:30 am
Panel: Scottish Cultural Identity
and Publishing
Chair: Fiona Black
David Finkelstein: Scottish Cultural Identity in the 19th Century: Scottish Publishing Memoirs
Alistair McCleery: The Publishing of the Scottish Renaissance
Marion Sinclair: Gaelic Publishing and Gaelic Identity
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
9:00-10:30 am
Session: Legal Ramifications of Authorship
Jason Evan Camlot: The Character of the Periodical Press in the 1830s
Paul Keen : Combining Principles and Practice: The Trials of Literature in the 1790s
David Oberhelman: Milton's Areopagitica and the Disciplining of Print Culture
BC Gas·Trans Mountain Pipe Line Cinema
Room 1800
9:00-10:30 am
Panel: Scribal Publication in New France
Chair: W.W. Barker
Julia Boss Knapp: "Je leur envoyé une lettre et un livre": Text Circulation and Catholic Community in 17th Century New France
François Melançon: The "Librairie française" in America: Book Circulation in New France
Germaine Warkentin: Styles of Authorship in New France: Pierre Boucher, Settler, and Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Explorer
Labatt Hall Room 1700
10:30-11:00 am
Coffee Break
Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre
Rooms 1400-1430
11:00 am-12:30 pm
Plenary Session I: The History of the Book and the End of Theory
Bill Bell: Collective Misrecognition: The Popularisation of Theory in the 1980s
Juliet Gardiner: Recuperating the Author: Consuming Fictions of the 1990s
Priya Joshi: Theorizing the Archive: Novels, Colonial Libraries, and India 1840-1900
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
12:30-2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm
Panel: The Literary Agent in Early 20th Century Print Culture
Chair: David Finkelstein
James L.W. West: Respondent
Mary Ann Gillies: The Literary Agent and Copyright, or Protecting Writers' Rights
Sharon Shaloo: Inserting the Agent into the Author/Editor Relationship: The Case of Edith Wharton, Rutger Jewett and Paul R. Reynolds
Susan Waterman: Literary Agents and Their "Pound of Flesh": C.F. Cazenove, Ethel Colburn Mayne, and Professional Definitions in Transition in Early 20th Century England
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Re-Evaluating 18th Century Authorship
Lisa Maruca: The Bookseller as Hero: Alternatives to Authorship in John Dunton's Life and Errors
Mary Helen McMurran: The Author and the Translator: 18th Century Conflicts
Elizabeth Schellenberg: "The measured lines of the copyist": Sequels, Reviews, and Authorship in England 1749-1800
BC Gas·Trans Mountain Pipe Line Cinema
Room 1800
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Early Book Craft
Susan M. Allen: Who Paid the Piper?: An Analysis of Subscribers to Ame's Typographical Antiquities
Christine Marie Harker: Mass-Production in a Manuscript Age: The Hardyng Manuscripts
Donna A. Vinson: Early Modern Printers and "The Invention of Tradition"
Labatt Hall
2:00-3:30 pm
Demonstration session
Fiona Black and Bertrum MacDonald: Using GIS Technology for a Geography of the Book: A Demonstration
Charles Vandersee: Pure Chronology, the Perfect Reader, and a 1920s American Hypertext
Canfor Policy Room 1600
3:30-4:00 pm
Coffee Break
Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre
Rooms 1400-1430
4:00-5:30 pm
Panel: Being British: The Role of Newspapers and Periodicals in Shaping National Identity in 19th Century England, Canada and Australia
Linda Connors: Creating a Usable Past: The Role of the Quarterly Review in Shaping a National Identity for its Provincial Readers, 1820s-1850s
Mary Lu MacDonald: The Export/ Import Trade in Ideas: The Role of United Kingdom Periodicals in Shaping Canadian Political and Social, as well as Literary, Discourse from the End of the Napoleonic Wars to the Middle of the 19th Century
Elizabeth Morrison: Grub Street Down Under, 1801-1901: How Newspapers in British Mould Dominated Colonial Australian Print Culture, Nurtured Imperial Connection and Helped Shape Australian National Consciousness
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Gender and Publishing Strategies in the 19th Century
Chair: Alexis Easley
Mary Chapman: Tokens of Affection: Male Poets in 19th Century Giftbooks
Margaret Linley: LEL: Writing at the Borders of the 19th Century Printed Image
Leah Price: "Fraser's" and the Circulation of Signatures
BC Gas·Trans Mountain Pipe Line Cinema
Room 1800
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Libraries and Social Influence
Cheryl Malone: "What the Negro Reads": Book Collections in Segregated Branch Libraries of the New South
Carl Ostrowski: Class and Gender Anxieties in 19th Century Accounts of the Library of Congress
Christine Pawley: "The Blessings Afforded by these Books to the Poor Settlers": Rural Reading and the Wisconsin Free Traveling Libraries 1896-1914
Labatt Hall Room 1700
4:00-5:30 pm
Panel: Authorship on Stage: Readers, Writers, Publishers, and the American Lyceums
Chair: Megan Benton
Lisa Gitelman: Who are Readers and Authors if They Aren't Human?
Jay Grossman: Composing Emerson
Mike Keller: Yeats on Tour: Elite Culture and Public Spectacle
Maria Russo: The Factory Girl at the Lyceum: Authors, Readers and Workers in Lowell
Canfor Policy Room 1600
Sunday, July 19
9:00-10:30 am
Panel: 18th Century Print Culture
on the Margins of Britain
Leith Davis: Hailing the Hiberian Muse: Music, Print Culture and Irish National Identity, 1726-1786
Ian Duncan: Figuring Modernity in Scottish Enlightenment Philosophical History
Janet Sorenson: Samuel Johnson Eats His Words: Robert Fergusson, Archibald Campbell, and Scots Responses to the Incorporating Body of English Print Culture
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
9:00-10:30 am
Session: Advertising and Sales in
20th Century America
Ellen Garvey: "Books they're talking about": Word of Mouth Publicity and Book Advertising in the US, 1880s-1930s
Laura J. Miller: The Bestseller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction
Claudia Stokes: Advertising Realism: William Dean Howell's Complaint
BC Gas Trans Mountain Pipe Line Theatre
Room 1800
9:00-10:30 am
Panel: The History of the Book and the American West
Chair: Scott E. Casper
Nancy Cook: Roughing It or the Life of a Female Book Agent on the Pacific Slope
Jen A. Huntley-Smith: The Genius of Civilization: The Material Culture of Print Technology in the American West
Amy M. Thomas: Reading on the "Frontier" in the American West: The Diary of William J. Walsh, 1878-1884
Labatt Hall Room 1700
10:30-11:00 am
Coffee Break
Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre
Rooms 1400-1430
11:00 am-12:30 pm
Plenary Session IICopyright and Censorship
Robert L. Patten: Troping Copyright
Martine Poulain: Publishers and Censorship in
20th Century France:
A Divided Community
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
12:30-2:00 pm
SHARP AGM and Luncheon
Delta Hotel, 550 West Hastings Street
2:00-3:30 pm
Panel: Talk the Talk: Oral History and the Vietnam War
Paul Budra: Title unavailable
Craig Howes: Title unavailable
Michael Zeitlin: Title unavailable
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Print Culture and The Individual
Simon Eliot: John Camden Hotten: General Publisher with a Vengeance; or, "Hotten, Rotten, Forgotten" Revisited
John Hruschka: Ordering Books: Frederick Leypoldt, Publishers Weekly, and the Modern Book Trade
Jacques Michon: Un auteur et ses éditeurs au tournant du siècle: le cas de Pamphile Le May 1837-1918
BC Gas·Trans Mountain Pipe Line Cinema
Room 1800
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Specialized
Publishing Issues
Megan Benton: Elite Editions: Random House and the Cult of the Fine Book in America, 1925-32
Gail Chester: Forcing the Gate Open
David McKnight: Echoes Without Saying: The Iconography and Ideology of the Canadian Literary Avant-Garde, The Case of the Coach House Press
Labatt Hall Room 1700
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Print and Orality
Ina Biermann: Reading With The Ear
Marija Dalbello-Lovric: The Performative Model of Text: Transformation of Oral Performance to Written Text Through the Act of Print
Canfor Policy Room 1600
3:30-4:00 pm
Coffee Break
Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre
Rooms 1400-1430
4:00-5:30 pm
Panel: Active Readers, Serious Books: Case Studies from the 1950s, '60s and '90s
Ann Haugland: Talking About Literature and Life: The Surprising Success of Oprah's Book Club
Beth Luey: Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and Readers: Popularizing Prehistory in the 1950s
Priscilla Coit Murphy: To the Editor: This Should Be a Book
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Oral/Print Interface in 18th Century Britain
Grant Campbell: Frances Burney Meets Her Fans: Authorship at the Nexus of Print and Oral Culture in Late 18th Century England
Marylou Gramm: The Collective Gamble
Ann Kelly: Myth Making in Print Culture: The Example of Jonathan Swift
BC Gas·Trans Mountain Pipe Line Theatre
Room 1800
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Niche Marketing Strategies in the late 19th Century
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra: A Collaborative Aesthetic: Christina Rosetti and Pre-Raphaelite Book-Making
William Pannapacker: Text and Image: 19th Century American Autobiography and the Changing Technologies of Self-Representation
Alexis Weedon: Differentiation of Market Sectors and Segmentation in British Book Publishing between 1866 and 1916
Labatt Hall Room 1700
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Books and Publishers
Across Borders
Victor Crittendon: Thomas Tegg and His Overseas Empire
Lydia Cushman Schurman: Three Publishers of Popular Literature from Canada and Their Effects on the 19th Century United States Book Trade
Steingrímur Jónsson: Comparing the Incomparable: Parallels in the Icelandic and Lithuanian History of the Book
Canfor Policy Room 1600
Monday, July 20
9:00-10:30 am
Session: Issues of Access and Control: Canada, Germany and France
Melanie Archangeli: "Please forgive my impertinence, but will you sell my journal?" A Woman Editor Markets her Magazine in 19th Century Germany
Paul Benhamou: Reading the News in Public Places in 18th Century France
Yvan Lamonde: The System of the Book: Lower-Canada 1815-1840
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
9:00 am-10:30 am
Session: The Business of Publishing
Leon Jackson: Forging an Orthodox Publishing Network in Federalist Boston: The Case of Samuel Armstrong
Kathleen Scherf: Publishing from the Rim: Authorship/Reading/Publishing at Talonbooks
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén: Cooking It UpGlobalization, Publishing and the Dynamics of the Local: Processes and Paradigms in the Swedish Cookbook
BC Gas Trans Mountain Pipe Line Theatre
Room 1800
9:00-10:30 am
Session: Women and Letter Writing
Suzanne Marcum: Fan Letters and Protocols of Women's Reading in Antebellum America
Sheila McIntyre: "My Affections Must Take My Pen": Female Correspondence in Early New England
Katherine Patterson: Politicising Authorship: The Collaborative Work of Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale
Labatt Hall Room 1700
10:30-11:00 am
Coffee Break
Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre
Rooms 1400-1430
11:00 am-12:30 pm
Plenary Session III: Future Directions for Publishing
Juliet Gardiner: "An economy of regard"?: Academic Publishing and the Scholarly Community
Ian McGowan: Publishing in China: A Giant Awakes
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
12:30-2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Women and the Book
in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Elizabeth Child: Local Attachments: Women, Print Culture and 18th Century English Towns
Valerie Frith: From "Learned Ladies" to "Amazons of the Pen"
Sharon Hamilton: A Woman Publishing for Women, 1621-1643
Dominique Varry: Women in the 18th Century Lyons Booktrade
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Sites of Reading: Classics, Class and the Classroom
Anita Claire Fellman: Interpreting Texts in a Community of Readers: The Little House Books in the Classroom
Siobhan Kelly: North and South: Regional Settings, and Their Impact on the Politics of Reading at Mechanics' Institute Libraries
DeNel Rehberg Sedo: A Glimpse at Reading Groups: Looking at Reading in a Societal Context
BC Gas Trans Mountain Pipe Line Theatre
Room 1800
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Temperance, Religion and Morality
Gail Edwards: Constructing the Other: Image and Text in Anglican Missionary Narratives
Bruce Greenfield: Silas Rand and the Mi'kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayer Book
Jennifer Jordan: "Frances Harper's Sowing and Reaping": The Efficacy of the Black Temperance Novel
Labatt Hall Room 1700
2:00-3:30 pm
Session: Exchange, Knowledge and Communication
Chair: John B. Hench
Nancy E. Gwinn: John Vaughan, David Baillie Warden and International Publication Exchange Networks
John R. Issitt: A Tale of Two Encyclopedias: Two Versions of Scientific Knowledge
Canfor Policy Room 1600
3:30-4:00 pm
Coffee Break
Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre
Rooms 1400-1430
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Politics of Class and Power
Sarah Leonard: The Dangers of Imagination: "Immoral Books" and Women Readers in Germany, 1850-1890
Cathy Turner: "My friends have all been offended by it:" American Librarians and James Joyce's Ulysses
Jonathan Rose: Sex and the British Worker: Reading, Response and Literacy
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Extratextuality
Alfred W. Baxter: The Grabhorn Press Ephemera
Jonathan Hill: Provisional Thoughts on Temporary Bindings
Diana Patterson: Joseph Johnson's Cheap Editions and the Book Trade
BC Gas·Trans Mountain Pipe Line Cinema Room 1800
4:00-5:30 pm
Session: Anglo-American Magazines in the Early Twentieth Century
Aurelea Mahood: Fashion Tips and Books for the Morning-room Table: Modernism and BritishVogue, 1920-29
Jeffrey S. Reznick: Writing Wartime Recovery / Recovering from Wartime Writing: British Soldier-Patients and Military-Hospital Magazines in the First World War
Erin A. Smith: The Ad Man on the Shop Floor: Reconstructing Working Class Readers of Pulp Magazines Between Wars
Labatt Hall Room 1700
5:30 pm
SHARP 98 sessions end.