The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) formed in 1991 in the United States on the initiative of scholars Jonathan Rose, Simon Eliot, and others.[1][2]
A major conference was held was at the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, July 14-16, 1994, where Center Director, John Y. Cole served as chair of the planning committee.[3] Over two hundred book historians attended, and eighty-two papers were presented.[4]
Its members study the history of books and the "composition, mediation, reception, survival, and transformation of written communication."[5] The group maintains an electronic discussion list (SHARP-L), produces the academic journal Book History (est. 1998), and holds annual meetings.[6] Membership consists mostly of British and American scholars.
SHARP Book History Prize
[edit]The SHARP Book History Book Prize recognizes the best book published on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses of script or print.[7]
- 2024. Sebouh David Aslanian, Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800 (Yale University Press, 2023).
- 2023. Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Harvard University Press, 2022), and Michelle R. Warren, Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford University Press, 2022).
- 2022. Elizabeth McHenry, To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship (Duke University Press, 2021).
- 2021. Kathy Peiss, Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (Oxford University Press, 2020)
- 2020. Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
- 2019. Brent Nongbri, God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts (Yale University Press, 2018).
- 2018. Eric Marshall White, Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible (Brepols, 2017).
SHARP Annual Bibliography
[edit]See also
[edit]- Similar organizations:
References
[edit]- ^ Ian Gadd (2010), "SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing)", in Michael F. Suarez; H.R. Woudhuysen (eds.), Oxford Companion to the Book, ISBN 9780199570140
- ^ Eleanor F. Shevlin; Eric N. Lindquist (2010). "Center for the Book and the History of the Book". Libraries & the Cultural Record. 45 (1): 56–69. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0112. JSTOR 20720639. S2CID 161311744.
- ^ "News from the Center for the Book: Book Historians Gather for SHARP Conference," Library of Congress Information Bulletin 53 (September 19, 1994): 354-57.
- ^ Shevlin, Eleanor F, and Eric N Lindquist. “The Center for the Book and the History of the Book.” Information & Culture 45, no. 1 (2010): 56–69
- ^ "Sharpweb.org". Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ^ Cyndia Susan Clegg (2001). "History of the Book: An Undisciplined Discipline?". Renaissance Quarterly. 54 (1): 221–245. doi:10.2307/1262225. JSTOR 1262225. S2CID 163717664.
- ^ SHARP History Book Prize.
External links
[edit]- Official site
- SHARP-L archive, 1992-
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