Revised CFP: SHARP panel at MLA, Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2006

[Patrick Leary]

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[The following revised version of the MLA/SHARP cfp comes to us from
Michael Winship <***@uts.cc.utexas.edu> ]

*Call for Papers: SHARP panel at the MLA annual convention,
Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2006 (revised):*

Print Cultures in the Atlantic World

Please submit proposals (250 words) for papers that address the
circulation of print in the Atlantic world. Papers may address either
the importation and exportation of printed texts or reprinting. How did
the law (including copyright and tariff law) shape trans- and
circum-Atlantic circulation? How did authors, publishers, and readers
engage or resist such circulation? What distinct cultures of print
emerged within the broader field of the Atlantic world? All relevant
periods and national literatures welcome.

Those submitting proposals should include a statement that they are
currently members in good standing of both MLA and SHARP.

*Please note:* This replaces an earlier call for papers that was posted
last week for a panel entitled "Copyright and the Political Economy of
Reading," which overlapped with a panel that had already been planned by
the MLA late eighteenth-century division. We encourage SHARP members to
participate in both.

[Giles Bergel]

Provincialism and the British Book Trade

ASECS 2007, Atlanta (March 22-25 2007)
Deadline: 15 September 2006

Book historians have long recognised the importance of the eighteenth
century in the growth of print culture in Britain, of which printing
and other activities of the book trade in the 'provinces' has been
perhaps the most characteristic feature. This panel will explore how
far the category of the provincial can be imagined through the
organization of the book trade. Topics might include the distribution
of the inputs and outputs of the printing trade from or apart from
the metropolis; the development of book trade networks, communities
and identities; provincial voices in print; and the formation or
contestation of discourses of the provincial and the metropolitan.
Papers that contest a print-centered model of the book trade, or
place the British experience in a comparative or a wider context
would be particularly welcome.

Proposals to Giles Bergel (***@english.ucsb.edu)

Dr. Giles Bergel
Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English
University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170