Events

How Can There Be a History of the Book? Pasts, Boundaries, Translations and Typographies

Professor James Raven (Essex)
Thursday 20 April 2017
5 pm

UCD Humanities Institute
Chaired by Dr. Nathan Garvey (UCD)

Funded by the European Research Council and supported by the UCD Humanities Institute.

You are cordially invited to attend a lecture in the 2017 “SouthHem” Lecture Series 'Methodologies Across Borders’

“How Can There Be a History of the Book? Pasts, Boundaries, Translations and Typographies”

Professor James Raven (Essex)

James Raven is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of, among other works, Bookscape: Geographies of Printing and Publishing in London Before 1800 (2014); Books Between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities 1620-1860 (2011); The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 (2007); and London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society 1748-1811 (2002). His research interests include book history; the history of the organization of knowledge; historical bibliography; and colonial cultural history.

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