SHARP News

Abstract

This is the Winter 1997-98 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: THE ELIOT-PHELIPS COLLECTION CATALOGING PROJECT; STUDENTS INTO SCHOLARS--SORT OF; CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS; CALL FOR PAPERS; JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; WEB WATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: STUDENTS INTO SCHOLARS--SORT OF, by D.J. Trela (pp. 1-3); Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America (CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS) (p. 3); Midwest Modern Language Association; William Morris Society; Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 3-4); Printing Historical Society; From Text to Book; Scottish Centre for the Book (LECTURES AND SEMINARS) (pp. 4-5); American Society of Church History/American Historical Association; History of the Book in Canada; SHARP/American Studies Association Caucus; Popular Culture Association: Reading and Publishing Popular Literature (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 5-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by John Feather, Robert N. Matuozzi, Richard W. Clement, David Finkelstein, Graham Law (pp. 7-10).