By Joseph Loewenstein (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) The Author’s Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for … Continued
By James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) The story of how Fitzgerald wrote and published the book is fascinating. In The Making of "This Side of Paradise", James West studies the inception, composition, publication, and textual history of the novel. He traces its growth from its earliest version, entitled "The Romantic Egotist," to its … Continued
By Deborah McGrady (NHC Fellow, 2010–11)
By Lilian R. Furst (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)
By P. Gabrielle Foreman (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, … Continued
By James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.
Edited by Emory Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume—one of the century's most important books in … Continued
Edited by Stephen Spector (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) A resource for students in any field who are working with paper documents, this book offers exemplary studies by leading scholars on a variety of topics, ranging from medieval music manuscripts to Beethoven, and from Shakespeare forgeries to the most recent bibliographical applications of nuclear physics.
By R. Jackson Wilson (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
By Bart D. Ehrman (NHC Fellow, 2009–10; 2018–19) Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God’s Problem reveals which books in the Bible’s New Testament were not passed down by Jesus’s disciples, but were instead forged by other hands—and why this centuries-hidden scandal is far more significant than many scholars are willing to admit. A … Continued