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This
page will provide information on my programs, publications, and
other scholarly endeavors.
The entries here are merely preliminary.
Thank
you for your patience.
the
world of the book
culture of writing, print, and new information technologies:
authorship and publishing; libraries and reading;
the periodical and history of the press;
literature
and literary life since the Enlightenment; special interest: Germany;
German publishing
and authorship from the 18th century through World War II
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Johann
Friedrich Cotta (1764-1832)
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historical
overview and original research on the Cotta firm (Tübingen
and Stuttgart), the most important German literary and political
publisher of the age of Enlightenment and Revolution, and
the only one whose archives have survived intact.
coming
features include:
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publishing the German literary classics
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Goethe's
Faust
(octavo,
1825)
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daily
newspaper:
first issue of the Neueste Weltkunde, 1.I.1798,
forerunner of the famed Allgemeine Zeitung
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how a journal or newspaper was made
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what the censors were looking for
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Hampshire College
Center for the Book and Library Project
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material culture
the historical objects of daily life
materials of daily life: metal, glass, pottery and porcelain
consumption and commodity culture
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