Contributors
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Shlomo Berger (Ph.D. 1987, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) teaches in the department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has published extensively on early modern Yiddish, and his publications include Travels Among Jews and Gentiles: Abraham Levie's Travelogue (Amsterdam 1764) (Brill-Styx, 2002). He is now preparing a new study of Amsterdam Yiddish book culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
John A. Buchtel was recently appointed Curator of Rare Books in the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He previously served as Curator of Collections at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, where he will continue to co-teach his RBS introductory survey course, "The History of the Book, 200-2000." He recently completed his doctoral dissertation, Book Dedications in Early Modern England: Francis Bacon, George Chapman, and the Literary Patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales, in the University of Virginia's Department of English.
Barbara Hochman is Chair of the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She has published widely on nineteenth-century American fiction. Her most recent book [End Page 321] is Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). In 2003 she received an NEH Fellowship for her project, Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution. The present essay grows out of research for that project.
Thomas S. Kidd is Assistant Professor of History at Baylor University. He is the author of the forthcoming From Puritanism to the Protestant Interest: Changing Identities in Provincial New England (Yale University Press, 2004). His next book project, also to be published by Yale University Press, is Awakenings: The First Generation of American Evangelical Christianity.
Cree LeFavour is in the final stage of completing her dissertation, "'Who Reads an American Book?': British Reprints and Popular Reading in America, 1848-1858," in the American Studies Program at New York University. Her other work on transatlantic print culture includes a study of W. M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair in the American market, an analysis of Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World as an example of Anglo-American reading and writing practices, and research on the trope of the "edible book" as an expression of anxiety over female reading in 1850s America.
Lisa Lindell is a Catalogue Librarian at South Dakota State University in Brookings. Her research interests and publications focus on the history and literature of the Great Plains.
Peter D. McDonald is a Fellow of St. Hugh's College and a Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. He is the author of British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 (1997), and co-editor, with Michael Suarez, of Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays, by D. F. McKenzie (2002). He has also co-edited, with Derek Attridge, a special issue of the journal Interventions (autumn 2002) on J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace. He has published widely on the linkage between book and literary history, and he is currently writing a study of the category of the literary, focusing on South African writing of the apartheid era.
Iris Parush is a Professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her book National Ideology and Literary Canon (in Hebrew, Mossad Bialik, 1992), explores the impact of national ideology on the formation of the modern Hebrew literary canon. She is also [End Page 322] the author of Reading Women: The Benefit of Marginality (in Hebrew, Am-Oved, 2001). An English edition of the book, entitled Jewish Women's Reading: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe, will be published in 2004 by the University Press of New England. She is currently writing a book on the "reading-biography" of young nineteenth-century yeshiva students as they underwent a process of enlightenment.
Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000, paperback 2003) and co-editor of Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Film (2004). She also contributes regularly to the London Review of Books. With Seth Lerer, she is co-editing a special issue...
