SHARP News

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This is the Winter 2001-02 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: Fiona A. Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: GUEST COMMENT; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: English Studies and the Trouble with History, by Bill Bell (GUEST COMMENT) (pp. 1-3); American Historical Association, Chicago, 2-5 January 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); New Frontiers in Early American Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 8-10 August 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Modern Language Association, Irish Women Writers before the Great Hunger c. 1700-1845: Purpose and Politics, New York City, December 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Books and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries (SHARP Regional Conference), University of Sydney, 30 January-1 February 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); Sue Allen Lecture: Publishers' Bookbindings 1830-1910, Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 23 March 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 5); The Harvard Theatre Collection, Grolier Club, NYC, 27 February-27 April 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 6); "Darkness Echoing": An Exhibition of Irish Literature, 1950-2000, Grolier Club, New York, 15 May-27 July 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 6); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada: Open Conference for Volume III/Colloque préparatoire au volume III (1918-2000), Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, Vancouver, 15-17 November 2001, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 6-7); HoBo Website Moves, New URL: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/hobo (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (p. 7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Lane Stiles, Julia M. Williams, Margaret Nichols, Jane Millgate, Melissa McFarland Pennell, William E. Lenz, Philip Round, Stephen R. Reimer, Pavlí¬na Vimrová, Peter R. Frank, Marcy Wheeler, Alexandra Franklin, David Stoker (pp. 7-15).