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> Forwarded message: > >From [log in to unmask] Tue Oct 8 21:31 PDT 1996 > Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 23:21:09 -0500 > Reading & Publishing" <[log in to unmask]> > From: Patrick Leary <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Call for Contributors re: reading publics > To: Multiple recipients of list SHARP-L > <[log in to unmask]> > > [The following is forwarded from Lydia Schurman <[log in to unmask]>] > > Contributors are invited for a collection of essays on histories of > the mass reading public -- as well as publishers' histories which > illustrate how publishers take their readers into account -- for a > planned published volume directed to the scholarly community. To be > called _The Global Common Reader_ this book will be devoted to fresh > scholarship on the reading and publishing of popular literature from > any period in any country. Papers are invited on reading histories of > the mass reading public--which sometimes read "high culture"; > Shakespeare and Dickens, for example, were popular culture in their > day-- reading audiences, publishing firms, distribution, and other > relevant aspects of reading and publishing popular literature. > > The University of Massachusetts Press has expressed an initial > interest in such a volume for its series "Studies in Print Culture > and the History of the Book." The editorial review process includes > scrutiny by at least two peer reviewers, the Series Advisory Board, > and the Press's Editorial Board. > > _The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition_ will be used. Please > send five hard copies of each manuscript submission in English by 1 > October 1997 to the editor, Lydia C. Schurman, Northern Virginia > Community College, 3215 North 22nd Street, Arlington, VA 22201, USA. > Inquiries welcome at <[log in to unmask]> > > > -- > > Carole Gerson internet: [log in to unmask] > Professor phone: (604) 291-4097 > Dept. of English fax: (604) 291-5737 > Simon Fraser University > Burnaby B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 >