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Visiting speaker, 26 Feb 2013: Nicola Watson on Walter Scott, Washington Irving and literary heritage
Nicola Watson (Open University) will be presenting her paper, ‘Transporting the Romantic: Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving and the Romantic Writer’s House’, at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 26 February… more →
Cardiff Book History
TOWIE II: Return to the Miami
wrote 2 days ago: The award of an Irish Research Council New Foundations grant was an important achievement for the Ch … more →
Pointing the finger, or, A handy guide to manicules
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wrote 2 days ago: A manicule, from the Latin maniculum or ‘little hand’, is a punctuation mark created by or for reade … more →
Book Launch: The Dynamics of War and Revolution: Cork City, 1916-1918
wrote 4 days ago: I am pleased to announce the launch of John Borgonovo’s latest book, The Dynamics of Wa … more →
Mapping Trollope: Geographies of Power
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wrote 5 days ago: The key to the whole is power. This can be seen by reconstructing the necessary context the novel cr … more →
On "The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control"
wrote 1 week ago: Ted Striphas’s account of “everyday book culture” illustrates the ways in which “book history” offer … more →
Virtual Paul’s Cross Project website is now available for exploration!
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wrote 2 weeks ago: About a year ago, EMOB devoted a post to several NEH-funded digital projects. John N. Wall, Project … more →
Commonplace Books and Identity: A Brief Example from Alexander MacCallum Scott's Reading
wrote 2 weeks ago: As David Allan, Earle Havens, and Stephen Colclough have argued, commonplace books offer examples of … more →
On "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" and "The Program Era"
wrote 2 weeks ago: Raymond Carver’s famous short story collection “What We Talk about When We Talk About Love, … more →
Incunabula: cataloguing the earliest printed texts in the Cardiff Rare Books Collection
wrote 2 weeks ago: Work has now started on the cataloguing of our important collection of nearly 200 incunabula, the ea … more →
Look What the Book Sale Dragged In! [Book of the Day]
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Ace edition of The Lord of the Rings, 1965 My eagle-eyed colleague, Rob Ridinger, spotted these pape … more →
James J. Corbett's The Roar of the Crowd
wrote 3 weeks ago: Libraries can be curious places, as anyone who spends too much in them can tell you. Usually thats b … more →
Three odd ducks
wrote 1 month ago: Stuarts, Jefferson, and Literary America: Three unlikely finds … Which I found at an incredib … more →
Learning our Catechisms
wrote 1 month ago: One evening recently, while I was reading Little House in the Big Woods to my six year old, he asked … more →
Conference: Poetics and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
wrote 1 month ago: Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies 5th Annual Conference: Thursday 23 May 2013, 10-6pm. T. S. El … more →
A new gift for a new age in donations [book of the day]
wrote 1 month ago: So this donation came in late last week, a generous gift from NIU alumnus Gregg Taylor. It is a grou … more →
on: Greg Prickman: The Atlas of Early Printing (2012)
wrote 1 month ago: Greg Prickman: The Atlas of Early Printing (2012) http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/ … more →
Review of Janice Radway's "Reading the Romance"
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wrote 1 month ago: Janice A. Radway, _Reading the Romance_ (1984) This week I assigned my students Janice Radway’ … more →
Books Coming to Life
wrote 1 month ago: “Scriptorium” Quill pens scratch, feet shuffle, voices read aloud in droning monotones – … more →
My 100th Post, and a Big Announcement!
wrote 1 month ago: In honor of my 100th post on this blog, I’d like to share the announcement I just made about t … more →
