Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Spencer: Caroline Alexander, “The Dread… Continue Reading →
by editor Erin McGuirl, and guest contributor Roger Gaskell In the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society (1965), Philip Gaskell defined the bibliographical press as “a workshop or laboratory which is carried on chiefly for the… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Adam Fales Who, in short, authored Congreve? Whose concept of reader do these forms of the text imply: the author’s, the actor’s, the printer’s, or the publisher’s? And what of the reader? D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and… Continue Reading →
Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Derek: David Greenberg, “America’s 100 other… Continue Reading →
by Derek O’Leary Hugo Swinton Legare engraved by T. Doney, c.1830-1850. From the Brussels diary of Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843), while US chargé d’affaires there: 24th May [1832]: Nothing remarkable; stretched off on a sofa today in the salle-à-manger, while my… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Megan Baumhammer The fieldwork expeditions of William Beebe (1872- 1962) and the Department of Tropical Research aimed to “bring the laboratory to the jungle.” Beebe, an ornithologist affiliated with the New York Zoological Society (now known as… Continue Reading →
Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Yitzchak Malise Ruthven, “The Islamic Road… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Yitzchak Schwartz Last month I once again attended the Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in the History of the Hebrew Book at the University of Pennsylvania. This is my fifth year attending the workshop and my… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Tess Goodman The souvenir is a relatively recent concept. The word only began to refer to an “object, rather than a notion” in the late eighteenth century (Kwint, Material Memories 10). Of course, the practice of carrying a… Continue Reading →
Here are some of the books that the Blog’s editors have lined up for summer. From art history to critical theory, from fiction to poetry, we’ve got you covered if you’re looking for something to pick up during the… Continue Reading →
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