Call for Contributors:
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE bOOK
Work has begun on The Oxford Companion to the Book, a one-volume global
encyclopedia of book history, scheduled for publication in September 2005.
The General Editor is Jonathan Rose, with Michael Suarez serving as
Consulting Editor. The volume will cover the following broad subject
areas:
1. Genres of Books: e.g., cookbooks, confession books, commonplace books,
dictionaries, medical books, atlases.
2. The Physical Book: e.g., scroll and codex, paper and other surfaces,
bindings, furniture, ink, type, typography, design, illustration.
3. Authorship: General essays on the history, sociology, economics,
organization, and theory of authorship.
4. Reproduction: e.g., scribes, printers, printing technology,
lithography, typesetting, mimeograph, xerography, desktop publishing, the
electronic book.
5. Publishing: Publishers, imprints, patrons, literary agents, publishers'
readers.
6. Property: Copyright and other forms of literary property, such as royal
privileges.
7. Distribution and Sales: e.g., booksellers (retail and wholesale),
colporteurs, postal systems, book clubs.
8. Preservation: e.g., libraries and librarians, archives and archivists,
preservation techniques, classification and cataloguing, private book
collecting.
9. Suppression: Censorship, bookburning, surveillance, pornography.
10. Scholarship: e.g., bibliography, editing, teaching and historiography
of literature, translation.
11. Reading: e.g., literacy, literary critics and criticism, reading
habits, reception studies, literary prizes.
12. Case Studies: Of course it will be impossible to include entries on
all the world's major authors and titles, but The Oxford Companion to the
Book will selectively cover books with particularly important publishing
and reception histories. The entry on William Shakespeare, for example,
will deal not with his plays in performance, but with their publication,
editing, critical reception, and scholarly treatment. Other likely
candidates include the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Kells, Beowulf, The
Tale of Genji, The Canterbury Tales, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Don Quixote,
Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Diderot's Encyclopedia, Uncle Tom's
Cabin, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, How to
Win Friends and Influence People, Animal Farm, The Second Sex, Silent
Spring, and the holy books of all the world's major religions.
13. National Histories: Concise surveys of the book histories of all the
nations and regions of the world.
Prospective contributors should send a short c.v. and a list of areas of
expertise to Jonathan Rose, Department of History, Drew University,
Madison, NJ 07940, USA, [log in to unmask] The editors also welcome (1)
suggestions for entries that might otherwise be overlooked and (2) any
bibliographies that will help in covering the entire literature of book
history.
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